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...
Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks to launch “beIN SPORT”
The new independent 24-hour global network dedicated to live and exclusive coverage of the world’s best soccer and international sports, will be carried exclusively...
ABC beat fox by 15%
Up against another NFL-driven Sunday from NBC’s Sunday Night Football (Dallas Cowboys-Atlanta Falcons) and a big CBS football overrun into the first hour of...
NBC: Top “SNF” overnights in six years
Sunday Update (The Sunday Night Football metered-market average has been adjusted to the telecast's full duration): Currently available fast-affiliate ratings are not time zone-adjusted...
Rich rakes in Chaparral western radio clusters
$3.7M KJAX-AM/KSGT-AM/KMTN-FM/KZJHY-FM Jackson WY; KOUW-FM Island Park ID; and KECH-FM/KYZK-FM/KSKI-FM Sun Valley ID from Chaparral Broadcasting Inc. (Jerrold T. Lundquist) to RP Broadcasting LS...
Santa Barbara LPTV sold
$190K KSBT-LD Santa Barbara CA from Arnold N. Applebaum to R&C Media Group Inc. d/b/a WCETV (Billy Chung). $45K deposit, balance in cash at...
Survey says consumers facing less trouble
And as a result, they are more confident heading into both the 2012 election and the holidays. The Consumer Report Trouble Tracker enjoyed a...
Locuspoint enters Class A TV biz with three buys
Class A television stations in San Francisco, Philadelphia and Tampa-St. Petersburg are being