Details of the Cumulus/Family New York deal
$42.5M WFME-FM New York NY (Newark NJ) from Family Stations Inc. (Harold Camping) to Radio License Holding X LLC, a subsidiary of Cumulus Broadcasting...
Mobile holiday shoppers will be consulting devices in-store
More than half of all consumers who are users of mobile devices will be using them for holiday shopping purposes, and out of that...
Cash flowed freely into Nexstar during Q3
Add television owner and operator Nexstar Broadcasting Group to the list of companies benefitting from
Another day, another EMF acquisition
Educational Media Foundation just filed to buy a station outside Dallas-Fort Worth. Now it has filed to buy another that is just outside Anchorage...
Cablevision, NBCU sign distribution deal
Cablevision’s long-term distribution deal will carry broadcast and cable networks owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal: NBC, Telemundo, USA, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC and NBC Sports Network....
TuneIn details political radio listening in swing states
TuneIn has gathered listening data of political radio programming in October. The results span 4.1 million listening hours specifically within swing states, including the...
Nexstar pulls out its checkbook for more TV stations
A pair of deals will involve two buyers and two sellers for stations on opposite sides of the nation, but the acquisitive driver is...
Stocks end higher ahead of election
Stocks ended with modest gains on Monday, with investors reluctant to make major moves ahead of the presidential election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Wheel ousts Big Bang from syndie first place
The total viewer order has been Big Bang, Wheel of Fortune, Judge Judy – this time, Wheel leapfrogged Bang and Jeopardy! Leapfrogged Judge Judy....
Clyburn: Spectrum auctions moving forward
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn appeared on C-SPAN’s Communicator series. She is confident the FCC will be successful in getting its incentive auctions rolling in...
Liberman spins Metroplex FM to EMF
Non-profit religious outfit Educational Media Foundation has another commercial band FM in its sights, and will be adding Dallas-Fort Worth to its collection of...
Sandy underscores importance of local TV and their websites
When disaster strikes, Americans turn to local broadcasters for pertinent information.
And increasingly, they turn to a station’s website for that same info – according...
MMTC calls for rejection of broadcast radio performance royalties
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council says that the value of airplay is more than enough compensation for labels and artists whose work is...
CPB issues emergency grants in NYC
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is helping out New York-based public media stations WNET-TV and WNYC-A/FM with emergency...
Joe Kelley lands morning show on WDBO
Cox Media Group says the host of the KRMG Morning News in Tulsa, Joe Kelley, is moving to its News-Talker WDBO-A/FM Orlando, replacing “Central...