Nielsen

About 51.5M watch Biden v. Ryan

The one and only vice presidential debate for 2012 is in the history books, and according to Nielsen, 51.479M people aged two or greater...

RLTV reached pact with TWC, Bright House

Adults 50+ comprise the target audience of basic cable service RLTV, and now a significantly greater number of that demographic will have a chance...
FCC

FCC announces agenda of TV auction tutorial

Learning Everything About Reverse-Auctions Now Program (LEARN) is the program initiated by the FCC to answer preliminary questions potential participating broadcasters may have about...
Tablets

Veep debate highlights rise in mixed media viewing

More people watched the debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan on television; but at the same time, more people watched on TV or...
Sold

Vega moving into Little Rock with deal for KOLL-FM

Edward and Leticia Vega are the owners of La Zeta 95.7 Inc., which is the proud owner of an FM in the Fayetteville AR...
Clear Channel

Clear Channel looks to kick some debt down the road

A $2B offering of priority guarantee notes from radio giant Clear Channel looks to address debts maturing in 2014 and 2016 with new debt...

Cumulus reels back two FMs in Kansas City

$16.75M KMJK-FM/KCHZ-FM Kansas City MO (North Kansas City MO, Ottawa KS) from AR Broadcasting LLC (W. Lawrence Patrick) to Cumulus Broadcasting LLC (Lewis W....

London adds TVs in Texas

$18.2M KIDY-TV San Angelo TX and KXVA-TV Abilene TX from Bayou City Broadcasting LLC (DuJuan McCoy) to KIDA/KXVA License Company LLC, a subsidiary of...
U.S. Congress

Eshoo gets into a Pai fight over spectrum auction

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Communications Subcommittee, is countering FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai’s assertion that guard bands opened up...

Dothan-area FM goes from school to school

WJED-FM will no longer be the property of a religious educational institution once its sale to an establishment specializing in technical and career training...
FOX Networks

Fox program lineup exhibiting exemplary health

Very few programs running on Fox appear to be in any jeopardy whatsoever of a mid-season exit from the lineup, according to the ratings...
SBG / Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair spins out of Lansing

WLAJ-TV Lansing MI, a Sinclair outlet bringing ABC programming to the market, plus CW over a digital side channel, is being sold to Shield...
Ed Christian

Going to court: Radio sick of SESAC

The Radio Music License Committee is bringing antitrust charges against music licensing group SESAC, citing
NBC

NBC: Leno beats Letterman

Thursday Results (Fox carried NFL football in Nashville and CW carried the game in Pittsburgh): (Due to live coverage of the Vice Presidential Debate,...
CBS

“CBS Sunday Morning” was #1

CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD was the #1 Sunday morning news program in households, viewers and adults 25-54, according to Nielsen live plus...