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
Stocks end mostly higher on hopes for cliff deal
Stocks finished mostly higher on Wednesday as Wall Street applauded what appeared to be a softening of stances in talks to avert the fiscal...
Copps: FCC about to strike out on dereg
Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps believes that the reported plan of the FCC to relax cross-ownership rules before fixing the problem with license ownership...
AMC gets an upgrade
Wall Street umpire Moody’s Investors Service likes what it sees when it looks at cable programmer AMC. It’s ability to contract for earnings, coupled...
What’s worse than a public file fine?
Answer: Two public file fines – that’s what happens when the same FCC sin is duplicated at both parts of an AM-FM combo. And...
ABC’s Shark Tank did well on Tuesday
During the 8 o’clock hour against NBC’s The Voice and CBS’ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, ABC’s special Christmas-themed Shark Tank beat out Fox’s comedies...
NBC: “The Voice” wins 18-49 Tuesday
From 8-9:01 p.m. ET, "The Voice" (3.4/10 in 18-49, 11.3 million
viewers overall) out-rated special competition to win the hour in
adults 18-49 and total viewers...
OMVC details broadcaster options for non-real-time content
The Open Mobile Video Coalition released a new report showing broadcasters how to take Mobile TV to a new level of functionality through transmission...
Dial Global re-ups with Jim Bohannon
Dial Global signed a new multi-year deal with Jim Bohannon to continue hosting the Jim Bohannon Show and America in the Morning to more...
Pandora CEO: “Fiscal Cliff” to blame for slow ad sales
The "fiscal cliff" is to blame for Pandora's lowered revenue guidance, not increasing competition, the company's CEO Joe Kennedy said on CNBC's "Squawk on...
News Corporation may be stockpiling baseball teams
Well, not the teams – but the rights to bring their games into the households of baseball fans in several markets across the nation....