Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Comcast buys all of FEARnet

Comcast has bought out its partners in the JV--Sony Pictures Entertainment and Lionsgate Entertainment—to take 100%

Don Bouloukos sets retirement

CBS Radio NYC SVP/Market Manager Don Bouloukos is retiring from the company effective June, after a career in broadcasting
Next Radio

NextRadio: NAB Show wrap-up

The TagStation Team has compiled a NextRadio wrap-up from the NAB Show last week and the news is good. To kick it off, last week's keynote by NAB President and CEO, Gordon Smith, had a few great shout-outs for NextRadio. He opened his thoughts with how it’s an exciting time to be in the media business and noted:

AP names WJBC-AM Station of the Year

Cumulus’ WJBC-A/FM in Bloomington, IL was named Station of the Year by the Associated Press

Alan Chartrand named Market President at CCME Boston

He’ll oversee CCME’s Boston cluster overseeing the operations and programming of Kiss 108

WILC-AM flips to Libertarian Talk in DC

Operating under Wallis Communications (ZGS Comm.), the new WILC-AM 900 is now home to
Hubbard Radio

Jerry Schnacke leaves Hubbard Radio/Chicago

Jerry Schnacke, a highly regarded 17-year Chicago broadcasting veteran, was forced out 4/14 as vice president and market manager of Hubbard Radio
Sprint

Sprint, Spotify plan to partner for music offering

Sprint and Spotify are working to push the streaming music service out to the wireless carrier’s customers
Clear Channel

The power of radio personalities

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment revealed the results of a new national study of the increasingly powerful role of radio
Emmis Communications

Emmis’ Texas Monthly sues The New York Times

The suit says the NY Times was trying to woo Texas Monthly’s editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein over

FCC Media Chief Bill Lake delivers good news for LPTV (video)

The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition has released an exclusive

Larry Patrick’s take from NAB

Larry Patrick, Managing Partner, Patrick Communications, gave RBR-TVBR some takeaways from the NAB Show this week, including

Atlanta’s Captain Herb Emory passes

Longtime CMG WSB Radio and Channel 2 Action News traffic reporter, “Captain” Herb Emory
Tom Wheeler

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s speech

Here’s FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s NAB 2014 speech, as delivered speaking with NAB CEO

Viacom, Mass Relevance partner for “EchoGraph”

EchoGraph is a social media measurement platform that will track and analyze social activity for