Univision launching Uforia music service
Univision announced the Uforia music service and upgraded radio app focused on content curation and customizable channels at the Billboard Latin Music Conference 4/23....
Thought-provoking Sinclair El Paso buy/assign deal
A deal for KDBC-TV El Paso TX ultimately involves not two but four companies, and it would appear to signal that more dealing is at hand. The seed contract spells the transfer of the station from TTBG to Sinclair.
Retransmission fees deliver flat Q1 at Media General
Media General’s Q1 revenue was $73.9 million, down slightly from $74.2 million last year. Gross Political revenues took a big hit
Cox Enterprises reshuffles management team
Cox Enterprises announced that after 33 years of service President and CEO Jimmy Hayes will retire in April, 2014
Montana’s Senator Baucus retiring
The Democratic Party already was facing a challenging 2014 election cycle before the retirement announcements started flowing.
Aereo to launch in Boston
The much-embattled live broadcast TV streaming service owned by Barry Diller will launch their platform in Boston on 5/15
GE Capital at the NAB
Sometimes a party is just a party, and other times this type of event gets a little extra attention, as was the case at...
Fox to Judge: “Dish Anywhere” threatens industry
Allowing Dish Network to continue retransmitting TV programs without a license to subscribers' computers and mobile phones through its
KRXQ-FM pulls morning show on Boston jokes
Entercom’s KRXQ 98 Rock Sacramento pulled their syndicated morning show, “Rob, Arnie and Dawn” after crosstown
Broadcast dealmaking seen on the upswing
Media Services Group broker George Reed’s sense of the NAB has yielded a number of nuggets of wisdom. Among them are signs
Twitter launches #Music app
After testing the app with music artists and influencers, Twitter #Music is now available at https://music.twitter.com and as
SiriusXM launches MySXM
MySXM lets SiriusXM Internet Radio listeners personalize 50 existing SiriusXM music and comedy channels to create a more tailored listening experience
YouTube beats Viacom again in copyright suit
Viacom lost another legal round in seeking as much as $1 billion from Google/YouTube for allegedly
File failure put multi-million Class A sale at risk
KM LPTV of Chicago’s WOCH-CA failed to file required reports on children’s TV programming, and neither were the reports in the
Aereo CEO addresses Fox’s threat to go cable
At the Ad Age Digital conference 4/17, CEO Chet Kanojia was skeptical that broadcast networks like Fox and Univision will go