Presidential race is local TV spending leader
Another week, another few steps closer to the $1B threshold for local television political spending in
Radio comes into play in Virginia Senate race
The election battle in Virginia has two unusually high-powered candidates – it’s not often that two former governors face off for a US Senate...
WBAL getting new morning driver
Maryland native Bryan Nehman will host the new morning drive show at Hearst News/Talker WBAL, Baltimore after Dave Durian steps down—likely in mid-October. Durian...
NBC: “Talent” tops Fox’s premieres
Thursday Results (Fox carried NFL football in Milwaukee): From 8-10 p.m. ET, the season finale of “America’s Got Talent” (2.4/7 in 18-49, 10.5 million...
Fox Business Network gets a re-design
RBR-TVBR exclusive: On Monday, Fox Business Network will be undergoing a redesign. It’s going to a single 16x9 feed (previously, they had both an...
FM buy gives Gow a Houston combo
$5.05M KFNC-FM Houston TX (Mont Belvieu TX) from AR Licensing (W. Lawrence Patrick) to Gow Communications LLC (David F. Gow). $250K escrow, balance in...
California TVs go to esteemed buyer
$2M KBVU-DT Eureka CA and KCVU-DT Redding CA (Paradise CA) from Sainte Partners II LP (Rob Castro) to Esteem Broadcasting of California LLC (David...
FTC slams diet food manufacturer
A company may have a pretty good idea that its product will help its customers lose weight, but it had best not say so...
Albuquerque TV sold
LIN Media provides services for CW KWBQ-TV & MNT KASY-TV in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe NM DMA, but it isn’t the company buying the stations...
FCC refuses to block YMF Inner City buy
Parties in New York City, including a councilman/talk show host, had challenged the acquisition of more than a dozen Inner City radio stations by...
ABC News sued for $1.2B over “pink slime” stories
ABC News was hit with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit 9/13 by South Dakota meat processor Beef
James Bond on a mission in global Heineken effort
Via Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, Heineken announced a new TV and digital campaign in anticipation of the upcoming release of Skyfall, the 23rd James...
Dish CEO Clayton fires back at CBS
The day after CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves threatened to pull CBS off of Dish Network when the contract runs out if Dish’s AutoHop...
Howard Stern looking to leave SiriusXM
The King of All Media is counting down the days until he can retire from SiriusXM satellite radio. Stern took a big pay cut...
Stocks rally as Fed brings in more firepower
Stocks surged Thursday, lifting the S&P 500 to its highest finish since 2007, after the Fed opted for a third round of quantitative easing...