Legacy

A pair of Spanish-language television stations owned and operated by Hispanavisión Televisión will now have the benefit of local TV measurement services provided by the nation's dominant ratings and audience consumption data provider.

A 1kw Class C AM serving Sylvania, Ga., is presently dark under a STA. It's been dark for a while. In fact, it's been silent for so long that the station has been designated for a license renewal hearing by the FCC. As such, Tampa-based owner Neal Ardman has a potential battle on his hands to save the station.

Legions of former listeners are joining members of the radio industry across the U.S. in remembering the life of the man known as "Kane," as he has died "after a long illness" at the age of 43. "The Kane Show" aired on iHeartMedia-owned "Hot 99.5" in Washington, D.C., and on WFLZ in Tampa, in addition to Premiere Networks affiliates, until its April 2020 cancellation.

The Media Bureau is reminding all low power television and TV translator stations that the digital transition date — when stations must terminate all analog television operations — is fast approaching.

The powerful artists and publishers’ rights organization that's tangled with the RMLC for five years is taking a page straight out of the Mafia film "Goodfellas" by handing Radio a "pay up, or else" approach to its new licensing agreements set to commence April 1.

Heading into last night’s ViacomCBS’ Streaming Investor Day, MoffettNathanson's clients had two basic questions. "At least now we have some clarity around the first question," Senior Analyst Michael Nathanson and Analyst Robert Fishman noted Thursday, following a three-hour affair that offered a detailed look at the newly rebranded Paramount+ offering.

With iHeartMedia offering "The Best of Rush" for the foreseeable future, is there an opportunity for other radio broadcasting companies -- including Entercom -- to snag some of Rush Limbaugh's listening audience? CFO Rich Schmaeling and CEO David Field answered this question, presented by a top analyst, on Entercom's Q4 earnings call.

Dish Network on Monday morning, prior to the Opening Bell on Wall Street, will reveal its fourth quarter and full-year 2020 earnings results. What can investors anticipate?

From his days 50 years ago as a Top 40 DJ in Pittsburgh to his hire at KFBK-AM in Sacramento to replace Morton Downey Jr., the radio career of Rush Limbaugh was replete with disappointment, rebirth and tremendous success. Now, the world is pausing to remember Limbaugh, who has lost his battle with lung cancer.

Latina-owned digital media company Canela Media has launched "Canela News," billed as "the first free live-streaming newscast for U.S. Latino cord cutters." It's a Spanish-language daily newscast offering the latest headlines, sports reports, features on immigration, and other subjects of particular interest to Hispanics who prefer to consume content en español.

On January 16, 2018, an Arizona radio broadcaster headed by Jason Zinzilieta and Janice Derks reached a LMA agreement with an entity led by the COO of member-manager Farmworker Educational Radio Network. Now, Zinzilieta and Derks have struck a deal to partially convert the lease to a purchase.

A pair of South Dakota TV stations are being spun to a broadcast ministry -- a deal brokered by Kalil & Co. that fully transitions a property (and its full-time satellite partner) that had been one of the original FOX network affiliates. In fact, the sale was greatly influenced by Gray Television's 2020 acquisition of the intellectual property associated with that 33-year-old broadcast station.

Two months ago, it appeared that a fresh retransmission consent arrangement keeping Hearst stations from "neighboring designated market areas" where citizens desired the station more than a closer, albeit out of state, choice was reached with Comcast. Now, the Xfinity parent says "some TV stations" from neighboring markets will "soon no longer be available."

For the first six months of 2019, the CBS affiliate serving Fort Myers-Naples, Fla., was blocked from Dish subscribers due to the lack of a retransmission consent accord. Guess what? DISH and the owner of WINK TV are battling again. The timing couldn't have been worse for local Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans.

On June 21, 2007, a group of AM and FM radio stations owned by iHeartMedia predecessor Clear Channel Communications were placed into the Aloha Station Trust. Nearly 14 years later, the station in a trust originally overseen by the late Jeanette Tully is heading to a new owner.