Venture Capital looking at YouTube channels
YouTube channels AwesomenessTV and Balcony TV recently received funding from venture capital firms. In a Wall Street Journal story, VCs are betting that these...
SLC FM joins with Ogden UT combo
$1.5M KJQN-FM Salt Lake City UT (Coalville UT) from SLC Divestiture Trust I (W. Lawrence Patrick, Trustee) to KLO Broadcasting Company (John C. Webb,...
Licensee shift for NH noncom TV group
N/A WENH-TV Durham NH; WEKW-TV Keene NH; and WLED-TV Littleton NH from University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees (Peter A. Frid) to...
Positive economic trends spotted
The road ahead for the economy is still full of potholes, and even bigger cliff-sized vacuums, but a number of trends could be pointing...
Belo makes free air time available to candidates
Television group Belo Corporation reliably includes free airtime for candidates during election season as part of its package of services to the public interest,...
FCC turns down Comcast request for Tennis time-out
An administrative law judge decision in favor of Tennis Channel and against Comcast regarding the tiering of the former is being challenged in court...
Buffalo will restore life to Weed FM
KCWH-FM Weed CA was once co-owned with KSYC-FM Yreka, but they have split up and the Weed station has fallen on such hard times...
Former XM employee sentenced for embezzlement
A former employee of XM Satellite Radio who embezzled more than $900,000 from the company has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. 54-year-old...
Stocks level out
Stocks ended little changed Thursday, with the S&P 500 clinging to a slight gain to maintain its longest winning run since March, after U.S....
Arbitron PPM panelist shares some views
An Arbitron PPM panelist of nine months reached out to RBR-TVBR and had a few things to say about the whole process. The panelist...
CWA continues to pour heat on Verizon spectrum buy
Communications Workers of America believe that the sale of spectrum from a consortium of large cable companies to Verizon and the mutual cooperation agreement...
Liberman pulls protested program
"José Luis Sin Censura" is no longer on the Liberman programming menu, exiting after an 18-month campaign led by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance...
Grupo swings and misses on KXOS-FM discount
Mexican media outfit Grupo Radio Centro has an LMA/purchase deal with Emmis for KXOS-FM Los
Looking Up to #1 offering MercyMe Labor Day special
This Labor Day, Envision Radio Networks’ Looking Up To #1 is offering a free two-hour special that honors and examines the career and music...
NBC Wed. gets good late night lead-in
According to the fast official ratings, the 11:06-11:18 portion of last night’s telecast averaged a 6.1 in adults 18-49 and the 11:18-11:30 portion averaged...