Saturday, June 27, 2026

Jim Winston

NABOB-member stations score $1.2 million ad buy

Recently, a radio media placement of some $1.2 million for November and December was placed by a consortium of mortgage companies, and NABOB member...
DirecTV

DirecTV signs with Time Warner Cable for Lakers channel

The carriage agreement includes Time Warner Cable's SportsNet, which is the new television home for the Lakers, and Deportes, the Spanish-language sister channel of...
Chart

Prospects for consumer spending on the upswing

The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index for October experienced a positive surge due to an increase in one area and a decrease in another –...

News Corp. set to say yes to YES

The regional sports channel that has rights the games of marquee MLB franchise New York Yankees is about to shake hands with Rupert Murdoch...
Sold

Seller ROI in resale of Little Rock AM

Wagenvoord Advertising Group bought KGHT-AM back in the spring of 2009, and now it's reselling it as KLRG-AM – and the end result for...

EMF acquiring Dallas-Fort Worth FM from Liberman

$6M KTCY-FM Dallas-Fort Worth TX (Azle TX) from Liberman Broadcasting Inc. (Lenard Liberman) to Educational Media Foundation (Mike Novak). $300K escrow, balance in cash...

Locuspoint buying three big-market Class A TVs

$6.65M KFTL-CD San Francisco CA from Polar Broadcasting Inc., a subsidiary of Family Stations (Thomas Evans et al) to Locuspoint Networks LLC (William DeKay,...
U.S. Congress

House panel tees up incentive auction hearing

House Subcommittee on Communications Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) isn’t letting his new NRCC duties interfere with attending to his old job – he’s extended an...
RAB / Radio Advertising Bureau

Radio suffers a flat Q3, up marginally YTD

It will come as no surprise to anybody who has been paying attention to quarterly revenue

Stocks finish lower on Sandy data, cliff woes

U.S. stocks pared losses in the final hour of trading but finished lower Thursday, pressured by economic data following superstorm Sandy and the looming...
Dial Global

Dial Global to voluntarily delist from NASDAQ

After a steady drop in stock price since merging with public company Westwood One, Dial Global
Mundo Fox

MundoFox adds East Coast Bureau

Noticias MundoFox, the national network news program for U.S. Hispanic audiences, announced the opening of its NYC-based news bureau to serve the East Coast....
Comcast and NBCU

NBCUniversal News Group adds iVillage

iVillage, one of the largest online communities for women, will be joining NBCUniversal News Group’s portfolio of digital news properties, effective immediately. The move...
Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable Media looks at marketing to key female demos

Time Warner Cable Media announced the results of its “Understanding Women Today” study conducted in partnership with Ipsos Media CT. The study surveyed more...
FCC

FCC ownership proceeding on circulation

The quadrennial review did not make the cut for the November 30 FCC Open Meeting, but it is now being circulated among the commissioners...