Saturday, June 20, 2026

ESPN Richmond adds FM signal

Red Zebra Broadcasting’s ESPN 950 WXGI-AM announced it will LMA Religious 100.5 FM
LIN Media

LIN Media buys Federated Media Publishing

Federated Media Publishing, a content marketer for the social web, has sold its business to

Comcast, Charter pact for Time Warner Cable

Charter Communications has now agreed in principle to sell Time Warner Cable's New York
Sirius XM

SiriusXM taps advisers for Liberty bid

SiriusXM announced that the Special Committee of its Board has retained Evercore Group to act as its
Liberty Global

Liberty Global to acquire Ziggo

In October Liberty Global’s preliminary takeover bid for Dutch cable TV operator Ziggo was rejected by the Ziggo board. Liberty had
DirecTV

DIRECTV, DISH combine addressable ad platform

The satcasters have combined sales efforts for addressable advertising allowing statewide political
U.S. Supreme Court

Law Firm: SCOUTS question bodes well for broadcasters

Attorney Harry Cole wrote in the Fletcher Heald & Hildreth CommLawBlog that
Dish Network

Court of Appeals upholds Hopper, AutoHop ruling

On 1/24, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously denied
Michael Savage

Savage, Hannity feud heating up

The dislike between WestwoodOne’s Michael Savage and Premiere’s Sean Hannity has burst to the surface
Comcast and NBCU

Comcast/NBCU strike 10-year deal 49ers, Levi’s Stadium

Comcast and NBCUniversal unveiled 10-year agreement with the San Francisco 49ers and

New Charlotte area tower rejected

Lexington, NC-based Davidson County Broadcasting’s proposed 1,190-foot-tall FM tower

Liberty Media weighs in on Charter’s TWC bid

Liberty released the following statement from its Chairman, John Malone, and its President and CEO, Greg Maffei, regarding support for
CNN

CNN sheds some 40 journalists

CNN has cut more than 40 senior journalists as part of a reorganization of the business under new president Jeff Zucker, appointed at the...
Jim Winston

NABOB, NNPA left out of tobacco ad buy

On 1/23 Target Market News broke the story that DOJ and the largest tobacco companies had negotiated a consent order in the long running...

UK network bans Twitter

Twitter has been banned from being mentioned on broadcasts by Britain's TalkSport network in protest at the social network's lack of response over abusive messages sent to its top talent Stan Collymore. Collymore had called on Twitter to take immediate action against users sending him death threats and racist epithets after he suggested Liverpool Soccer forward Luis Suarez dived to win a penalty last weekend.