NBC

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...
Chart

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...
Sold

Locuspoint enters Class A TV biz with three buys

Class A television stations in San Francisco, Philadelphia and Tampa-St. Petersburg are being
Lew Dickey

Dickey says radio must sell political better

Cumulus honcho Lew Dickey expects its 2012 political results to improve during Q4, but Q3 was disappointing, falling well short of 2010 levels. He...
Cumulus

Struggling stations pull Cumulus into the pro forma red

Q3 marks the point at which Cumulus closed on its merger with Citadel, and as such, raw numbers are up -- way up. However,...
CBS

CBS, Hulu sign content deal

CBS has so far held out from striking licensing arrangements with Hulu--likely because it's partially owned by Fox/News Corp., NBCU and ABC/Disney. That's about...
NBC Sports Radio

NBC Sports Radio adds NBA analyst

Dial Global and the NBC Sports Group say basketball veteran Stan Van Gundy is the latest to join NBC Sports Radio as a Senior...

LSU host Bobby Hebert ejected from press box

Outspoken Entercom WWL-AM New Orleans radio host and former New Orleans Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert got a little too excited and was subsequently escorted...
Pile of Money

The last big spend: $93 million for battleground TV ads

The Obama and Romney campaigns, along with their respective Super PACs, have bought at least $93 million on ads in 11 states for nine...
Art Carlson

Former Susquehanna exec Carlson passes

Arthur W. Carlson, longtime leader of iconic Susquehanna Radio has passed following a battle with heart ailments. RBR-TVBR extends its deepest sympathies to Mr....

FTC settlement has Walgreens paying millions

Claims made about dietary supplements sold as a store brand by Walgreens have the pharmacy in hot water. The FTC says advertising that Wal-Born products...

Done deal for Sioux Falls sixpack

Duke Wright’s Midwest Communications has closed on its acquisition of an intact six-station superduopoly cluster in Sioux Falls SD, according to brokerage firm Kalil...
Money

Washington Post: TV great, cable grows, print sputters

The three communication businesses of The Washington Post Company posted vastly different results during Q3 2012. Broadcast television easily led the way, thanks to...