New owner for Dallas AM
KKDA-AM Grand Prairie TX is being sold by longtime owner Service Broadcasting Group. The Classic R&B outlet is headed to SKR
Greater Media flips News Talk 96.9 to “Power 96.9”; then flips again
On 1/3, Greater Media’s News Talk 96.9 Boston switched over to an Urban format--"Power 96.9." The move marks a return for the format in...
Consumer confidence dips in December
The BIGinsight consumer sentiment barometer dropped a few points as 2012 winds down to a close. Still, the December sounding is the best the...
LMA’d Tupelo MS station sold
WLOV-TV, which serves the Tupelo DMA from its perch in West Point MS, is already in an LMA with WTVA Inc., licensee of WTVA-TV....
More details on networks TWC is culling
TWC CEO Glenn Britt threatened to drop networks with low ratings when their programming contracts expire at a conference 12/3 in New York. “If...
Talker Dana Loesch files suit against Breitbart.com
Tea party activist and Emmis-owned KFTK-FM St. Louis Conservative talker Dana Loesch sued the owner of the conservative website Breitbart.com 12/21, claiming that although...
Gun rights advocates want Piers Morgan deported (video)
Gun rights activists are fighting back. A petition launched 12/21 on the White House e-petition website by a user in Texas accuses Morgan
Rockefeller violent media focus is games
Senate Commerce Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has made video content part of the overall
Nielsen spends about $1.26B to buy Arbitron
Two ratings giants are becoming one, and for most American broadcasters, it will mean
Discovery to buy 12 TV stations, radio stations in Europe
Discovery Communications is buying 12 TV networks in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland
PTC objects to Walking Dead rating
The Parents Television Council has fired off a letter to Gordon Smith, who in addition to heading NAB is also Chairman of the TV...
Sean Creamer to become new Arbitron CEO
The Board of Directors of Arbitron announced plans to appoint Sean Creamer, 48, President and Chief Executive Officer, effective 1/1
Analyst finds a lot to like at Nexstar
Wells Fargo has decided to initiate coverage of television group Nexstar, and it does so with high expectations, to say the least
It’s not necessarily lights for LPTV
We’ve watched the FCC move rule-neglecting Class A television stations down to the lower-grade
Not much TV talk in auction hearing
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski suggested to the House Communications Subcommittee that channel repacking policy is the next