A look at the new Young Broadcasting
The conversion of warrants to shares has placed television group Young Broadcasting in the hands of Standard General Management LP. Here’s what the company...
Judge approves royalty deal with BMI
Two years of litigation involving 7.5M musical works and 10K radio stations is now at an end, with the
Fox scored #1 in 18-34
Averaging a 1.4/4 among Adults 18-49, FOX delivered a very close third-place finish in the core demographic last week, only one tenth behind first-place...
ESPN, MLB strike eight-year extension
ESPN and Major League Baseball have reached an eight-year, multiplatform rights extension which will significantly enhance ESPN’s TV, digital, radio and International MLB rights....
NBC Sports Radio adds more programming, talent
Dial Global and NBC Sports Radio announced the hiring of four sportscasters to round out its roster in time for the network’s launch on...
ABC’s Bachelor Pad scores
Monday: Growing by 8% and by 22% among key adult demos, ABC’s Bachelor Pad hit a best-since premiere performance in Adults 18-49 (since 7/23/12),...
NBC ties #1 in 18-49 for the week
Led by the week’s #1 telecast in adults 18-49, the Panthers-Jets “Sunday Night Football” NFL preseason game, and the #1 show in total viewers,...
EMF buys in Houston
$5M KHJK-FM Houston TX (La Porte TX) from AR Licensing LLC (W. Lawrence Patrick) to Educational Media Foundation (Mike Novak). $250K escrow, balance in...
Albany TV bought, headed for JSA/SSA
$19.5M WXXA-TV Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY (Albany NY) from Newport Television LLC (Sandy DiPasquale) to WXXA-TV LLC, a subsidiary of Shield Media LLC (Sheldon H. Galloway)....
Univision to host forums with presidential candidates
Hispanic multimedia giant Univision was one of the entities dismayed by the lack of a minority presence among presidential debate moderators. But it’s doing...
It’s Prime Time for Philly Class A
An active buyer of large market low power television stations has struck again with a deal to pick up Class A WPSJ-CD serving the...
Cumulus Flint divestiture sold
Krol Communications isn’t moving too far from its Michigan radio footprint, but its acquisition of WRSR-FM Owosso MI will bring with it something its...
Fox tweaking series premieres with online video
Fox’s half-hour "Ben and Kate" and "The Mindy Project" comedies have been be streamed 8/27 on digital platforms before their 9/25 premiere on Fox....
Emmis employees to find surprise in their paycheck
Like a lot of media companies, the rough patch Emmis has traveled can be measured in terms of years.
YouTube to cull some professionally-produced channels
YouTube’s plan, unveiled last February, was to spend $100 million on establishing dozens of professionally produced channels started off pretty well—new channels were being...