DC station cut out of high-profile Redskins press event
Highly-touted Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III gave his first press conference. Local TV covered it live. Regional and national sports media outlets...
MVPDs reminded of EEO responsibilities
On the plus side, MVPDs have an extra day to file their annual EEO reports with the FCC. On the minus side, they still...
LIN can grin about Street-beating Q2
All systems were go at LIN TV Corporation, where gains were registered in significant categories including local, national and or
Romney super PAC radio ad spend hits $1 million (audio)
The pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future (ROF) is out with a $1 million radio ad buy across nine swing states, hitting President Obama...
Dave FM to flip to Sports in Atlanta
CBS Radio’s AAA "Dave FM" WZGC-FM Atlanta will flip to all-sports in late September/early October, writes Rodney Ho at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. CBS...
Manning scores Nassau Maryland properties
$6.4M WWEG-FM & WAFY-FM Frederick MD (Myersville, Middletown MD); and WARK-AM Hagerstown MD-Chambersburg-Waynesboro PA (Hagerstown MD) from Nassau Broadcasting III LLC Debtor-in-Possession (Louis f....
Michael Copps: Watchdog
When he was an FCC Commissioner, Michael Copps perhaps came as close to being a media watchdog as a commissioner possibly can. But now...
Hagerstown TV eludes political file requirement
Nobody familiar with Hagerstown MD would confuse it with a Top 50 market, yet according to Nielsen DMA definitions, it is considered part of...
Heineken to premiere “The Switch” TV spot
Heineken has debuted its new television commercial, "The Switch," following the success of the acclaimed commercials, "The Entrance" and "The Date," which are also...
Radio One back on the NASDAQ bubble
There probably is or will be a great big circle around the date January 22, 2013 on Radio One’s corporate calendar. That is its...
YouTube offering Olympics to 64 countries; not U.S.
The IOC is freely broadcasting the Olympics to 64 Asian and sub-Saharan African countries on YouTube. Ghanaians, or Indians, or Basotho can tune in,...
Star Entertainment’s Tranzistor to add advertising model
Star Entertainment Group’s subsidiary Tranzistor Systems announced plans to add an ad model to its internet radio service, delivered via Android and Apple apps....
Aereo, Auto Hop, retrans a big focus this week
SNL Kagan’s Steve Birenberg notes that handful of large media and communications companies are reporting earnings this week, along with several smaller media companies.
The...
ABC, Univision close deal on 24-hour news channel
ABC News and Univision have closed on their new joint 24-hour news channel. The two networks officially announced the channel in May. The agreement...
TheBeat 87.9 vows to keep airing without license
Nashua, NH pirate TheBeat, 87.9 FM, targeting young demos, is airing without an FCC license. “No, we don’t have one,” Antoine Anthem, owner of...