Last Man Standing came in 2nd on Tuesday
At 8pm, opposite CBS’ NCIS, ABC’s season finale of Last Man Standing stood as the 2nd-most-watched TV show, outdrawing the opening half-hour of Fox’s...
mun2: #1 Hispanic cable net in first week of May
mun2, the leading bicultural cable network, was the #1 Hispanic cable network for the first week in May across all key demos in prime...
“Voice” up 16% vs. last year’s finale
Week to week, the Tuesday “Voice” is up 39 percent in 18-49 (4.3 vs. 3.1) and 30 percent in total viewers (11.596 million vs....
NBC signs four new producer deals
NBC has beefed up its growing Alternative production team with new overall development deals with reality producers including Jason Ehrlich (“The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette”),...
NAB renews call for spectrum inventory
The formation in Congress of the Federal Spectrum Working Group has inspired NAB President/CEO Gordon Smith to press the case for a full inventory...
Another sad tale of radio station value lost
When Telecom 1996 opened up the radio station trading market and led to the creation of radio juggernaut groups with stations in the hundreds,...
mike’s hard lemonade launches multimedia effort
mike’s hard lemonade’s new campaign delivers the message: different is refreshing in life and in a beverage. The brand’s new multi-million dollar campaign includes...
Connoisseur spins out of Huntington-Ashland
$1.3M WMGA-FM & WXBW-FM Huntington WV-Ashland KY (Kenova WV, Gallipolis OH) from Connoisseur Media Inc. (Jeffrey D. Warshaw, Michael O. Driscoll) to Fifth Avenue...
Delaware low power station sold
$150K W14DK-D CP Dagsboro DE from Ocean Broadcasting LLC (Scott Boatman) to Blue Bird Broadcasting LLC (Charles Bennett). $30K deposit, $75K advance payment, $5K...
Watchdog petitions for Hill hearings on News Corp.
Experienced FCC watchers believe that US broadcast licenses held by News Corporation are in little or no regulatory danger as a result of the...
LIN rocks double-digit Q1 gains
Most public television groups have been reporting strong results for Q1 2012, and LIN says it’s outperforming them. In addition to
Texas radio’s MBM Revolution buys again
Roberto Gonzalez’s MBM Revolution didn’t have any radio stations until it started buying them up last summer – now it is amassing an
Netflix, 20th Century Fox strike pay TV deal in South America
Netflix and Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution unveiled a multi-year licensing agreement that will soon make a host of TV series and films available...
WVOE-AM reaches 50-year milestone
Radio One’s WOL-AM DC has some good company: Ebony Enterprises’ WVOE-AM in Chadbourn, NC first signed on in April, 1962 and is now the...
Stocks tumble on more overseas fears
Stocks sank Tuesday as Greece's uncertain political situation keeps investors jittery. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 77 points, or 0.6 to 12,932. Broadcasting...