Broadcasting Stocks

At the Closing Bell on Nasdaq, SBGI was down 7.1% to $26.04. Friday could be a big rebound day for the stock. Minutes before the end of Thursday's trading, the 99-day lockout appeared to be over.

Salem Media Group will hold its annual stockholders meeting at its principal executive offices, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, on the first Wednesday in May. The announcement comes on a day when the company's shares were dipping from a three-year high on Wall Street. 

The worst may be behind Audacy Corp. as its stock continues its climb from pandemic-era depths that seemingly continued up to February 22. Since then, AUD shares are up by more than one dollar per share.

Nielsen's Q4 2021 Earnings Per Share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 27.8%. Unfortunately, Nielsen's revenue in the quarter fell short of Wall Street analysts' forecasts. And, NLSN slipped in Monday's trading.

The reward to shareholders comes as GTN, traded on the NYSE, is at the top end of its historical price chart — a good sign for the company led by Hilton Howell Jr. and Pat LaPlatney.

With a winter weather advisory in effect for Manhattan, Wall Street is bracing for sleet and a little snow. For investors, that was nothing compared to the pre-market slide for stocks. Then came an afternoon address from President Biden on how the U.S. will react to Russia's incursion into Ukrainian territory early Thursday. Investors reacted positively.

The VIAC ticker symbol is no longer in use. That's unfortunate for the company known now as Paramount Global to Nasdaq. On its final day under the old ticker symbol, a $6.41 single-session slump was seen by the company formerly known as ViacomCBS. In midday trading on Friday, things weren't much brighter for Paramount.

At 10am on February 23, Audacy Inc. will host its Q4 2021 earnings call for analysts and investors. For the former Entercom, the fiscal report card comes with its stock at a far lower price than it was a year ago. 

With shares at their lowest value in a decade, discarding the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors may be intensely awaiting the latest fiscal report card for Nielsen Holdings plc. When will the nation's dominant audience measurement and consumer data analysis house share the company's fourth quarter and full-year 2021 results?

Some companies do it to award shareholders. Others to it to attract them. For Nielsen, the latter appears to be the incorrect response from Wall Street of the decision by its Board of Directors to declare a quarterly cash dividend.

The Walt Disney Co.'s fiscal first quarter of 2022 ended on January 1. How did the company do in its first three months of the fiscal year? As CEO Bob Chapek sees it, "We’ve had a very strong start to the fiscal year." Thank Encanto and a rise in streaming portfolio subscriptions for that positive news. The company's linear networks saw lackluster results.

The fourth-quarter earnings calendar for broadcast media companies is coalescing, and the latest company to confirm when it is sharing its results is The E.W. Scripps Co.

For Q4 2021, iHeartMedia is going with a pre-market release on a Wednesday. Is it a sign that the nation's No. 1 audio content creation and distribution company is poised to report some of its best-ever numbers?

Can anything stop Nexstar Media Group from achieving a fresh all-time high for its stock? A new peak was reached on Wednesday. As a result, share value in the nation's top broadcast television company by station count is up $114.88 since March 2020.

The company led by Caroline Beasley and publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Markets exchange has decided when it will release its fourth-quarter and full-year results for 2021. It will be the first Q4 report in the broadcast sector to be released, based on the current schedule.