Legacy

Salem Media Group has announced the $80 million sale of its remaining Contemporary Christian Music stations as part of a series of major financial and strategic transactions. The move brings the end of the broadcaster’s CCM format, commonly under the “Fish” moniker.

Is the future bright for broadcasters? That's a question posed to New York Interconnect CEO Andrew Kandel and Gray Television SVP of National Sales Becky Meyers in a "virtual candid conversation" shared this week by Matrix Solutions with its CEO, Mark Gorman, and Vertere Group founder and CEO Tim Hanlon.

If you were wondering what percentage of local businesses were buying each form of advertising across 2024, as well as the average annual spending on each, Borrell Associates has the answer for you, courtesy of Adcellerant VP of Business Development Ben Bouslog.

The competition will be available on The Roku Channel’s recently launched Roku Sports Channel. In addition, Roku has launched X Games TV FAST channel and will curate a dedicated X Games Zone, a destination for fans to browse, discover, and stream everything X Games, including programming highlights, clips, interviews, and archival content.

What do a community radio station that broadcasts "a diverse and vibrant program schedule" to rural Southeast Alaska and a public broadcast service in one of America's largest markets have in common? Each are receiving a significant sum of money from CPB to upgrade their equipment to provide enhanced emergency alerting.

He most recently served as VP of Strategy and Acquisitions at A+E Networks, where he spent the past 11 years shaping the networks’ programming and content acquisition strategy. Starting today, he's the new SVP of Programming for The E.W. Scripps Co.

A former ESPN Radio host who previously spent more than 10 years at a Townsquare Media Sports Talk radio station in Sioux Falls, S.D., has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $5 million after pleading guilty to participating in a phony ticket re-selling operation.

The woman who formerly served as Vice President of Global Advertising Sales and Partnerships at Roku, where she oversaw the company’s entire global ad revenue operation, has accepted a similar role at NBCUniversal. She will report to NBCUniversal President of Advertising and Partnerships Alison Levin.

Keith Murray has agreed to purchase a collection of radio stations serving a town in New Hampshire known as the gateway to Mount Washington.  Now, all he needs is regulatory approval from the FCC, which just received the paperwork from his legal counsel, John Wells King.

As radio faces competition from an ever-increasing number of platforms, radio marketing firm DMR/Interactive is projecting a 14% increase in station marketing budgets across the radio industry in 2025, following years of single-digit declines.

New market research from WARC and radio station owner Audacy explores the perceptual barriers that are driving the gap between audio advertising spend and audio consumption in the U.S. "This white paper challenges long-held assumptions and demonstrates audio's ability to drive multi-platform, full-funnel impact for advertisers."

Among his 65 novels are works titled "Desperation," "End of Watch," "If It Bleeds," and "The Dark Tower." Little did we know that those names would be apropos for what's coming in days to Stephen King's trio of radio brands in Maine. King is signing his stations in the Bangor, Me., market off the air after 41 years at the end of 2024.

A Class A FM serving small agricultural communities in Georgia that have attracted first-generation Hispanics has been targeting this immigrant community with regional Mexican programming as "El Gallo" under a lease management agreement with its owner. Now, this LMA is being converted into an outright purchase.

The CEO, CFO and EVP of Investor Relations at NYSE-traded radio station owner and digital local media company Townsquare Media will be participating in two key upcoming institutional investor affairs in Boca Raton, Fla., following the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

From technological innovations that could impact the future of local TV to the FCC under forthcoming Chairman Brendan Carr, Deutsche Bank Director of Equity Research Ben Soff shared the Wall Street viewpoint on how linear TV could benefit during a TVB Executive Summit session held Thursday. This podcast offers coverage of that discussion.