NBCSN: Team USA Soccer Gold Medal Match top event
The Thursday Team USA gold medal-winning soccer match against Japan drew 4.35 million viewers and had a national household rating of 2.74, the most-watched...
“Essential Public Radio” changes name in The ‘Burgh
The Pittsburgh station formerly known as Essential Public Radio (WESA-FM 90.5, formerly Duquesne University’s heritage Jazz WDUQ-FM) has made changes to its programming lineup...
Sears Auto Center launches radio, TV campaign (video)
Sears Holdings Corp. and its Sears Auto Center stores unveiled a new integrated national campaign via McGarryBowen that will showcase the brand's commitment to...
“Wipeout” #2 on Thurs night
Building on its lead-in at 9pm against the Olympics, ABC’s Wipeout ran a competitive #2 against its non-sports competition in the hour to Big...
Fox Thursday ratings
Due to local NFL pre-emptions, Fast Nationals for FOX, ABC and CBS are inflated. FOX aired back-to-back encores of RAISING HOPE at 8pm (1.1/4)...
Barrydriller.com launches in competition with Aereo; Fox sues
Alki David, FilmOn CEO, has launched Barrydriller.com, an online video service in competition with
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....