Walden outlines goals for House panel
Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-OR) plans to keep an eye on the FCC during the course of the 113th Congress, and may make...
Dial Global Sports presenting Army-Navy game
Dial Global Sports will present exclusive national and international audio coverage of America’s Game, presented by USAA. The 113th meeting between Army and Navy...
DeMint exits Senate for think tank post
Jim DeMint (R-SC), who was expected to ascend to the top Republican spot on the influential Senate Commerce Committee, is headed instead for the...
Ford picks up trio east of Quad Cities
Virden Broadcasting Corporation will remain a going concern, but all of its stock is being sold to a new owner. The company owns and...
Verizon DVR parent monitors room, sends targeted ads
A patent application from Verizon describes a DVR set-top box that would watch the living room for "ambient actions" like people singing, fighting, or...
Dish Network’s Blockbuster selling mobile phones
Dish Network’s Blockbuster will begin selling mobile phones in its movie rental stores as a test for Dish’s planned entry into the wireless biz,...
CBS Sports Radio finalizes lineup
CBS Sports Radio, launching on more than 100 stations on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, at Midnight, says veteran play-by-play announcer and radio host Chris...
Hearst buys 50% of NorthSouth Productions
NorthSouth is one of America’s largest independent producers of non-scripted television programming. The joint venture will be part of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, operated...
Merced CA FM changing hands
$755K KBKY-FM Merced CA from KM Radio of Merced LLC (Myoung Hwa Bae) to Radio Alfa Y Omega LLC (Amador Garcia). $12K credit for...
Houston Class A headed to OTA
$2.3M KUGB-CD Houston TX from Uniglobe Central American Network Inc. (Thomas Abraham) to OTA Broadcasting LLC (Todd Lawyer, Marc R. Lisker, John C. Phelan,...
FCC releases final December agenda
The five FCC commissioners will consider five items during the course of their final open meeting of 2012, but for broadcasters, it will be...
Locuspoint picks up two more Class A TVs
The ranks of television group ownership expanded by one in November, when new entrant into the Class A business Locuspoint Networks filed with the...
More pirates walk the FCC plank
FM buccaneers in Kansas and Florida have been busted by FCC agents. The Midwest pirate was given a standard fine, but the pirate operating...
Sirius XM to buy back $2 billion in stock
Sirius XM Radio’s board has approved a $2 billion common stock repurchase program. Liberty Media Corporation, which now owns 49.8% of the company's stock...
Harris to sell Broadcast unit for $225 million
Harris, which makes most of its revenue from tactical communications gear used by the military, said it will sell its