BCE to sell 10 stations for Astral deal
Canadian telecom giant BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises) has offered to spend C$200 million on Canadian programming and sell 10 radio stations on 7/11 as...
KEZK gets new afternoon driver
CBS Radio’s Fresh 102.5 (KEZK-FM) in St. Louis announced Greg Hewitt will return to the company as the station’s Afternoon Drive personality, effective Monday,...
Envision now offering Westar Music
Envision Radio Networks announces that Westar Music’s royalty-free online commercial production music library is now available on a barter basis. The Westar Music commercial...
Fox tops adult demo with SYTYCD
With the first SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE live performance show, FOX won last night among Adults 18-49, Total Viewers, Adults 18-34 and...
Liberty’s Malone discusses premium in SiriusXM deal
SiriusXM CEO Mel Karmazin has been telling Wall Street that he will not give up control of Sirius without securing a premium from Liberty...
Texas FM, Boston AM in the FCC deal hopper
$240K KXXN-FM Iowa Park TX from Towers Investment Trust Inc. (Bill Brothers) to KIXC-FM LLC (Daniel B. Balla, David L. Stuart, Fred R. Morton,...
Deal reveals the anatomy of a noncom FM buildout
Normally there is only a minimum amount of national interest in the sale of a noncommercial FM CP in an out-of-the-way location such as...
FCC finalizes July meeting agenda
The sneak preview of the topics on the table at the FCC July Open Meeting turned out to be an actual preview. For broadcasters...
Uncertain future may underpin Viacom/DirecTV battle
Program sources want to maximize income, and cable, satcasters and telcos want to hold down costs
NAB calls out CTIA on inaccurate FM chip testimony
At the 6/6/12 Communications Subcommittee Future of Audio hearing, CTIA’s Christopher Guttman-McCabe repeatedly cited a Best Buy catalog containing 26 FM-enable cell phones. However,...
Smulyan upbeat about new transformed Emmis
The straight revenue statistics did not paint a particularly pretty picture for Emmis Communications during its initial fiscal quarter of the year, but if...
FM chip dominates Emmis report on the state of radio
Emmis President/CEO Jeff Smulyan is upbeat about the heightened prospects for an FM chip on cell phones and the bright future of
North Miami can’t subsidize WURN-AM carnival–yet
New World Broadcasting’s WURN-AM, a popular Miami-Ft. Lauderdale Haitian outlet, came before the North Miami City council Tuesday requesting $270,650 to throw a street...
WMGO GM claims rights violations in lawsuit
The manager of News-Talk/Variety WMGO-AM Canton, MS (WMGO Broadcasting, Inc.) has amended his lawsuit against the city of Canton claiming that, in addition to...
Netflix users streaming more TV
Following the announcement earlier this year by Netflix that their members had enjoyed more than two billion hours of streamed video in Q4 2011,...