Newspaper

Halifax frees southeastern newspaper group

Freedom Communications, a media company dealing with print and interactive properties, is spinning off its print holdings in the states of Florida and North...
Political Advertising

Early DMA winners in election 2012

The presidential campaigns are already signaling where the battlegrounds are – and although one candidate is active in more locations than the other, PACs...
Jeff Smulyan

Audio future hearing should be a barnburner

You need look no further than the witness list to see that the House Communications Subcommittee hearing entitled “The Future of Audio” is going...
Dial Global

Neal Boortz sets 2013 retirement

After 42 years in talk radio—20 of which was from Cox Media Group’s WSB-AM Atlanta flagship

Dow erases 2012 gains

Wall Street suffered its worst day of the year Friday as U.S. stocks sank more than 2% following an ugly jobs report. The Dow...

Emily Maynard searches for tall, skinny and not condescending as The Bachelorette

So it turns out Alessandro (who so eloquently told Emily that ending up with her and Ricki would be a "compromise,") was an even...

Broad news palette for news directors

The 2012 presidential election was the top news story for the week of 5/21-27, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, in part...
FCC

FCC schedules TV relocation workshop

In advance of incentive spectrum auctions, the FCC has already held a workshop providing details on how to go about sharing a television channel...

FM action in the low power zone

An application to transfer an LPFM station arrived at the FCC recently, sending the station from one religious group to another. The station provides...
Money

This conflagration elimination brought to you by…

Facing budget shortfalls and the possibility of closing some of its fire companies, the city of Baltimore is considering selling advertising on fire trucks,...
U.S. Congress

Legislators boost broadcasting upon arrival of hurricane season

Members of Congress took to the floor to express their awareness of and gratitude for the vital role

FCC degrades two Class A TVs

A pair of Class A television stations located in Terrebonne-Bend, Oregon was threatened with a drop in status to the less-well-protected LPTV level. After...
Emmis Communications

End of preferred dividends heads Emmis back to court

As part of its restructuring plan, Emmis Communications is looking to save millions of dollars by not paying out dividends to preferred shareholders. The...

Live365 partners with Livio Radio for in-dash

Live365 announced partnerships with Livio Radio and Inphodrive to bring thousands of curated stations to in-dash automobile receiver units. Livio Radio and Inphodrive provide...
Envision Radio Networks

The Country Oldies Show announces “4’s On The Fourth”

Over the years, many of our favorite country songs only made it to number four on the charts. This Fourth of July weekend, Envision...