TV deals in the low power lane
$85K KAKZ-LD Palm Springs CA (Cathedral City CA) from Woodwest Investment LLC (Sim Farar) to Tara Broadcasting (Clark Garen). $10K escrow, balance in cash...
Houses panel puts FCC on the hot seat
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) spent the first half of the year chasing the FCC over the LightSquared proceeding – and now, in the true...
Miami Spanish TVs get high marks from watchdog
Josh Stearns of Free Press journeyed to Miami to check the political files of a trio of Hispanic television stations. Despite the controversy associated...
Multi-million dollar deal for Chicago Class A
NRJ Holdings got its start with full power television stations, but it has already bought a large-market low power outlet, along with a troubled...
Salem buys into Greenville SC
WMUU-FM, a station with ties to Bob Jones University, is being sold to commercial religious leader Salem Communications. This is a territorial expansion rather...
Netflix, A&E may be at impasse over licensing deal
Shows like “Storage Wars” and “Pawn Stars” are at stake: Netflix licenses to stream A&E programming from A&E and History Channels are set to...
Cumulus’ SweetJack launches big push
Groupon has some fresh competition nationwide. Cumulus’ daily-deals rival SweetJack is rolling out an ad blitz for SweetJack 9/17 in 37 cities including NYC,...
Saga, Cherry Creek Radio sign group-wide with vCreative
Saga Communications and Cherry Creek Radio have adopted vCreative PPO to manage continuity and production workflow for all of their market clusters, as well...
Stocks score second week of gains
Stocks on Friday sealed a second weekly rise, still basking in the aftermath of central-bank moves. Stocks have been climbing for much of the...
American Idol 12th season judges named
The speculation can now end: When AI’s 12th season debuts in January, Mariah Carey and returning judge Randy Jackson will be joined by
WDAE’s Ian Beckles arrested
Ian Beckles, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive lineman and current co-host of a WDAE-AM Tampa (Clear Channel) sports talker, was arrested 9/13 for...
Bachelor Pad finale shocks fans: Winner takes all in stunning twist
Woah, the Bachelor Pad finale this week gave me serious heartburn from all the stressful moments.
First things first. The Husband got choked up listening...
FCC degrades two more Class A TVs
KFLZ-CA San Antonio TX and KGLR-LP Lubbock TX were Class A television stations. Both failed to place children’s programming info in their public files,...
Phoenix AM headed to new owner
Force Communications filed to acquire KIDR-AM Phoenix AZ at the beginning of 2009. Now, going on four years later, it has a deal to...
Ratings matter, and slowed Disney over the summer
Walt Disney Co. is not expecting to meet its goals for its fiscal Q4, due to weaker-than-anticipated ratings for its networks. However, things are...