New television group on the prowl for stations
New Vision Television Group ceased to exist when the sale of its stations to LIN closed last fall. However,
Al Gore sells Current TV to Al-Jazeera
The former VP and Current TV Chairman and co-founder has pocketed quote a profit in selling his cable channel Current TV to
Arbitron upgrades convinced Dickey to re-up Cumulus
The news of Cumulus being critical of Arbitron in recent years and selling without Arbitron ratings in
FCC approves disputed Cumulus deals in Mobile and Pensacola
For television stations operating under Nielsen definitions, there is one market called Mobile
Mignon Clyburn earns full FCC term
Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn breezed through the renomination process in the Senate, earning her first full term at the
Tribune emerges from Chapter 11
It’s official – multimedia Tribune Company is reorganized, out of Chapter 11 protection and getting set to begin distributions to creditors
DirecTV to up subscriber fees by 4.5%
Its service fees will rise by an average of 4.5% on 2/7 due to increasing programming costs
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