WV senator objects to “Buckwild”
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-WV) isn’t too wild about MTV’s new reality show, “Buckwild.” The show is scheduled to debut next month and follows...
CALM Act kicking in soon for TV spots
Beginning Thursday, TV stations and cable providers are required to keep the volume of commercials at a level consistent with programming.
The Commercial Advertisement Loudness...
Sandy helps fuel November car sales surge
TrueCar.com estimates that 30,000 cars were not purchased during the month of October 2012 as a direct result of Hurricane Sandy. The good news...
Sinclair’s Rochester dealings detailed
The paperwork has been posted at the FCC, giving us the full portrait of the three-party deal in Rochester NY between Sinclair, Newport and...
Univision opens door to major markets for Bounce
Bounce TV, the African-American-targeted broadcast network that’s using digital side-channels as its base, will add seven large DMAs courtesy of Hispanic television group Univision.
The...
Australian hosts give tearful apology for prank after nurse’s suicide
2 Day FM Sydney radio presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian, the hosts behind the hoax phone call to the U.K. hospital where the...
NBC Sports Group signs with Yahoo! Sports
It’s a content and promotional deal combining Yahoo! Sports’ original reporting expertise, coverage of big events, Rivals college content and fantasy sports products with...
Texarkana superduopoly sold
$2.75M KTFS-AM/KCMC-AM; KTFS-FM/KTOY-FM & KBYB-FM Texarkana AR-TX (Texarkana TX, Texarkana AR, Hope AR) from Ark-La-Tex LLC (and in the case of KTOY-FM, Jo-Al Broadcasting...
Entercom and Glassnote enter royalty deal
Clear Channel has struck a content deal with Big Machine Label Group, and Entercom followed suit. Clear
Stocks edge up; Apple drags on Nasdaq
Stocks edged mostly higher Friday after a better-than-expected November jobs report, while losses for Apple weighed on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite. The Dow Jones...
SiriusXM launches “Publishers Weekly Radio”
It’s an exclusive one-hour, weekly show bringing listeners inside the world of publishing, on Book Radio channel 80. Publishers Weekly Radio will feature Publishers...
Lexus partners on another “Restaurant Impossible”
Food Network and Lexus have partnered to produce a one-hour holiday special episode of Food Network’s popular Restaurant Impossible, the first course of an...
Colbert Senate hopes quickly dashed
When Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) announced his exit from the US Senate, late night television host Stephen Colbert saw his chance to follow in...
Connoisseur misses attempt to shoot down Clear Channel’s WOR deal
Jeff Warshaw’s Connoisseur Media complains that Clear Channel is stockpiling stations that should be divested in the Aloha Station Trust, and because of that,...
Spotify tops 1 million paid US subscribers
Spotify now has 5 million paid subscribers around the world, including 1 million U.S. customers, the company said 12/7 at a press event in...