Point Broadcasting creates SoCal sales and marketing division
Point Broadcasting, which operates three SoCal radio groups, announced that the sales and client marketing services across its radio station clusters and affiliated companies,...
TuneIn to stream SF MusicTech
TuneIn is streaming from the SF MusicTech conference 10/9 between 8:50 am and 6 pm, PT across three channels. This will be exclusively available...
Family Guy tops the night for Fox
On Sunday, FOX’s FAMILY GUY was the highest rated entertainment program of the night among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Teens.
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NBC: SNL dominated
In time zone-adjusted metered-market ratings, the Miami-Notre Dame game from Solider Field in Chicago (won by Notre Dame 41-3) averaged a 2.4/4 in metered-market...
NBC greenlights “Get Out Alive”
“Get Out Alive” (working title) is a new, larger-than-life and extreme adventure reality-competition series headlined by world-renowned adventurer Bear Grylls, to be co-produced by...
NRA attacks Pres. Obama in TV ads (video)
After the National Rifle Association endorsed Mitt Romney for president last week, the group aired its first TV ad of the 2012 election season...
FCC vacates program access rules
The FCC has allowed rules forcing owners of regional sports networks to provide them to competitors, but left in their place a requirement to...
Auto Hop role in retrans negotiations examined
The basic issue between broadcasters and satellite MVPD Dish Network is money, of course, but Dish’s ad-skipping Auto Hop feature tends to come up...
Pandora continues to ask for heat on legislators
Pandora’s Tim Westergren recently asked us to contact one of our state’s US Senators about the Internet Radio Fairness Act. Now the “Pandora Team”...
ABC up 15% over year-ago Sunday
Up against NBC’s Sunday Night Football and an NFL-overrun boosted CBS, ABC outdrew Fox’s Sunday night schedule by 2.0 million viewers. During the 7...
Merlin sells WRXP to CBS Radio
It looks like the rumors are at least partly true: CBS Radio has signed a definitive agreement to purchase WRXP-FM NY from Merlin Media...
Stations in Florida, Tennessee sold
$325K WURB-FM CP Cross City FL from Alex Media Inc. (Alexander Berger) to Urban One Broadcasting Network LLC (William Johnson). Unspecified mix of cash...
Media General spins off Tampa newspaper
The Tampa Tribune and related assets are now owned by Tampa Media Group in a deal that completes television group owner Media General’s exit...
Gannett and Dish come to terms
An early morning press release from Gannett revealed that had reached an agreement with Dish Network to extend negotiations on a new retransmission pact....
Michael and Silberberg swap FMs in SD-WY border area
Steven Silberberg will strengthen his holdings in the South Dakota side of the state line, while Victor Michael strengthens his holdings on the Wyoming...