Suburban Nashville combo sold
$1.184M WQSE-AM & WVRY-FM Nashville TN (White Bluff, Waverly TN) from Grace Broadcasting Services Inc. (Lacy Ennis) to JWL Communications LLC (Duane Jeffrey, Mike...
Groppetti picks up Momentum in Visalia
Buckley Broadcasting is spinning off one of its Joaquin Valley FM stations, and the beneficiary will be Momentum Broadcasting LP, headed by Managing General...
Mother’s Day spending expected to hit $18.6B
The National Retail Federation is citing BIGinsight data to make the prediction that the average person celebrating Mother’s Day in 2012 will spend about...
Broadcast expected to post choppy improvement in Q2
Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker points to a few reasons that Q1 2012 may not have been all it could have
Let’s have a hearing on the present of TV
The internet. It’s everything, right? There is no future except for the internet and it’s already pretty much taken over everything. Well, not everything...
Meredith TV enjoys increased income on decreased outlay
Revenue for Meredith Corporation’s television-oriented Local Media Group was up 10%, and expenses
ESPN may add FM in NYC
A report in the NY Post says ESPN Radio in The Big Apple may be signing a long-term programming rights deal on an FM...
AOL unveils “AOL On” at NewFront
At its NewFront presentation to some 450 advertisers and agencies 4/24 in NYC, AOL announced plans to launch an online video network that lump...
Nielsen Q1 revenue up 3% (audio)
Nielsen’s Q1 revenues grew 3% to $1,340 million, up 4% from Q4 2011. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter grew 4% to $332 million, up...
Stocks up ahead of Apple results
The Dow climbed Tuesday as investors cheered upbeat quarterly results from a range of companies, including 3M. But Apple and Netflix helped dent technology...
HBO inks Bill Maher for two more years
Bill Maher has been politically incorrect on television for a long time now – including on late night with Comedy Central and ABC. He...
Rockefeller echoes call for FCC nominee vote
The FCC has released more documents on the LightSquared affair – some 13,000 according to a Hillicon Valley report – and Senate Commerce Committee...
Conference Board concurs that confidence is flat
Consumers have elevated their level of confidence over its position in the middle to later portions of 2011, but after getting to a certain...
NRB educates key Republicans on must-carry
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) have pending legislation that would, among other things, change the rules under
NBC asking $1M for Thanksgiving-Night NFL game ads
Upfront climate getting hot: NBC is asking for a whopping $1M per ad in its new Thanksgiving-night NFL broadcast. NBC will attempt to get...