La Promesa acquiring Houston AM
$2.766M KCOH-AM Houston TX from KCOH Inc. (Thomas F. Petrizzo, Executor, Estate of Michael Petrizzo, deceased) to La Promesa Foundation (Leonard J. Oswald et...
Los Angeles LPTV sold
$800K KIOO-LP Los Angeles CA from Jeff Chang to Bagrat Sargsyan. $100K escrow, balance in cash at closing. LPTV. FCC file date 11/13/12]
Online spending up on Black Friday
Not everybody was headed for the brick and mortar locations on Black Friday – in fact, many consumers let their mouse do the walking...
Filling in the blanks of Fisher Eugene dealings
The FCC has posted paperwork on the deal for KMTR-TV Eugene, initiated by Fisher Broadcasting, which will send the station to Roberts Media. It...
News Corp. unveils separation details
Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire will continue to be named News Corp., but its television
New Texarkana group expands
A little over a week back, Texarkana Radio Center filed to acquire a two-AM, three-FM radio cluster – and now it has another deal...
TeleFutura becoming “UniMás”
Univision Communications announced the launch of the UniMás Network, the newly transformed TeleFutura. UniMás delivers content from the top Spanish-language producers in the world.
“For...
ZenithOptimedia sees 4.3% US ad spend growth for 2012
Given the current economic conditions and expected ad market, ZO is projecting a 4.3% increase in ad spending for 2012, consistent with their October...
Radio One to take 80% of Reach Media, combine programming
The new combined lineup includes Tom Joyner, Rickey Smiley, Russ Parr, Yolanda Adams, Reverend
What if you held a spectrum auction and nobody came?
That’s the question posed by one television operator who believes that the broadcast television business is vibrant and poised for continued success. Sure there...
Nasdaq scores best November since 2009
Stocks ended little changed on Friday, with the Nasdaq recording its first positive November since 2009 as lawmakers wrangled over a budget deal. Up...
NABOB stalwart Bennie Turner passes
Bennie Turner, former President of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, has passed. He was also a legislator in his home state of...
Watchdog wants diversity considered under quadrennial review
A number of public interest groups are concerned that the FCC’s report plan to loosen cross-ownership restrictions will also weaken minority broadcast ownership levels....
Senator demands public FCC vote on media ownership
Maria Cantwell (D-WA) does not believe the five FCC commissioners should be allowed to hide out on the FCC’s 8th Floor when they vote...
Weighing in on LPFM
Prometheus Radio Project took a victory lap, Free Press applauded and NAB supported the FCC action to promote low power FM and clear the...