Saturday, May 9, 2026

FCC

Big DMA video description rules kick in

Big Four network affiliates in the top 25 DMAs and cable systems with 50K or more subscribers are now required to insert audio description...
Sold

Two in Austin from the old Border Media group sold

One buyer will bump the ceiling on foreign ownership and the other will be looking to take another commercial FM into the non-profit zone. The...

AM reception problems get noticed in Green Bay

Reports of problems with AM radio reception in parts of a Green Bay neighborhood have prompted a county lawmaker to call for a study...
Dish Network

What’s at stake: Networks head to court over AutoHop

On 7/2, the legal battle over AutoHop between Dish and the broadcast networks is scheduled to start in New York, where U.S. District Judge...
FOX

Fox Sports inks deal with Erin Andrews

According to Fox Sports, one of the brightest stars in broadcast sports is packing up her 1.3M Twitter followers and bringing them to its...

Stocks close best month of the year

Stocks leapt on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tallying its best month of the year, after Europe moved to bolster the economies...

Emily Maynard’s got her top 3 picked out already in Prague

The one and only time I was in Prague was after college on a 6 week summer backpacking trip through Europe with my friend...
FCC

FCC July agenda peripheral to broadcasting

Broadband providers and those wanting to use white spaces are eying the same spectrum broadcasters use, particularly on the television side. So although there...
Sold

Anatomy of a Tennessee FM sale

ASRadio LLC is selling its FM station in the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol market to the Baker family’s Positive Alternative Radio, which will take it noncommercial....
Moody's

Gimme an M! Gimme an A! Merger!

Unfortunately, M&A opportunities are few and far between these days, and that’s a shame, says Moody’s
Anthony Declemente

Analysts like a split News Corporation

Both Wells Fargo and Barclay’s believe that in the case of News Corporation, two stocks are better

AMC playing hardball with DISH, AT&T

Basic cable provider AMC was warning its fans that its channels are about to disappear from AT&T MVPD systems -- but that has been...
Democrat and Republican

Internet radio service offering political content

iNetRadio says it is “…free Internet radio mobile app that gives users what they want when they want it.” And now just like that...

2012 campaign ad spend besting 2008 record

President Obama, Mitt Romney, and their allies are spending money at a faster pace than the final weeks of the 2008 presidential election. The...

Hot 101.5 going commercial free on B-Day

Cox Media Group Tampa’s New Hot 101.5 will go commercial free for an entire day on July 4th to celebrate the station’s one year...