Legacy

There's a Director of Business Development/Streamers for streaming TV operation Wurl. It's the former Head of Business Development for Dish's Sling TV.

Hearst Television is expanding its original program production and distribution capabilities with the creation of the Hearst Media Production Group. And, a longtime Hearst Television executive has been named president of the new group.

Circle City Broadcasting and Metro Video Productions have signed an agreement that effectively expands the "Indiana News Network," based at the DuJuan McCoy-owned TV stations serving Indianapolis, to another Hoosier State market.

The entity that today holds a majority interest in Cox Media Group has filed paperwork with the FCC that confirms a change of sorts is underway. In short, a successor corporation to Apollo Global Management is being formed, as the founding investors in AGM will relinquish their present control.

RBR+TVBR first learned August 19 that NEXTGEN TV was coming to Atlanta. It is now known that that's not the only new market now offering local viewers broadcast TV channels powered by the ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast standard.

A Class A FM serving the city of Macomb, Ill., has a new owner. The transaction is hardly a surprise, however, as the seller has been allowing the buyer to operate the facility, resulting in a change in the non-secular worship and praise programming heard on the station.

Ronna Corrente has gained national acclaim for her leadership of Gray Television’s FOX affiliate in New Orleans. Now, Gray is promoting her. What does that mean for WVUE, “FOX8”?

National Association of Broadcasters EVP/Managing Director of Global Connections and Events Chris Brown has revealed that all attendees and participants must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination should they wish to attend any of the Las Vegas conferences and vendor expos.

The creator of the podcast Your Own Backyard — Chris Lambert, who's credited with renewing interest in murder of missing Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, may testify on August 30th in the case against her alleged killer Paul Flores.

A search committee appointed by the Board of Trustees for American Public Media Group has concluded "a rigorous, national search" for an individual who replaces Jon McTaggart. He lost his role due to high-profile sexual harassment and diversity and inclusion concerns widely reported in fall 2020.

On the same day that DISH released a sterling Q2 earnings report, the company isn't playing nice with one of the nation's biggest broadcast TV station owners. That's at least Sinclair's side of the story, as it prepares to see its stations face a "blackout" on DISH's local lineups in the absence of a new retransmission consent agreement.

As its peers have reported highly positive Q2 results, the company formerly known as Entercom has released a second quarter fiscal health report reflecting a significant Earnings Per Share miss. Investors immediately reacted in early trading on Friday, with the losses continuing after hours.

Chalk up another broadcast media Street Beat as the Q2 earnings parade makes it way through North Texas and Ventura County, Calif. Salem Media Group, which has a presence in both locales, smashed the predictions of Zacks Equity Research by delivering very strong earnings per share and revenue performances in the second quarter.

According to Nielsen Power Buying data, 41% of U.S. podcast listeners are non-White with Hispanics gravitating to podcasts more than any other ethnic group. They also represent growth rate of 6x, well above the 4x rate among Whites. How can Hispanic radio take advantage of this exploding audio platform? A Hispanic Radio Conference session provides answers.

In September 2018, a forlorn AM radio station with Portuguese-language fare became the latest station to capitalize on the massive growth of the Spanish-speaking population in Central Florida. Only, it didn't adopt another music format. Instead, iHeartMedia gave birth to a spoken word format. The decision appears to be a savvy one.