Thursday, May 7, 2026

Football is three TDs and a safety ahead of baseball

At one time, Major League Baseball was so popular that it earned the right to be considered America

Marketing Physics Part III

Winning Creative Awards Hurts Radio: So your station won another creative award. That’s great news! You can now post that shiny new plaque along...

Battle of the Titans

CBS’s launch of All-News WNEW (99.1) marks the start of the Battle of the Titans for news supremacy in Washington, DC.  The scorecard for...

FCC streamlines FM allotment processes for Native Americans

The FCC has further streamlined its procedures for encouraging federally-recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (

Marketing Physics Part II – Listening is Not Hearing

The goal of any radio station client’s creative and scheduling of their commercials is to simply produce effective campaigns so they (the client) become...

The Song Remains the Same

Recently, Adweek ran an article entitled “Streaming Has A Big Problem—It’s a Huge Success.”  A headline like this—as well as a coverage in a...

Economic indicators group photo edition

Ultimate takeaway: economic growth is just not coming as fast as most would like. However, it does seem to be coming, even if it is at a glacial pace. Plus side, the CEOs Vistage surveyed see something out there they like

License renewal and the No Urban Dictate certification requirement

A while ago I wrote to remind broadcasters of some of the certifications required of an application for renewal of a broadcast license.  Among...

Economic group photo shows sentiment edging upward

Organizations that make a point of measuring sentiment and reading tea leaves have been churning out molehills of data

Resetting the bar for Emmis Communications

Emmis Communications reports its fiscal Q3 (September-November) financial results on Thursday morning. Emmis, however, is a very different company than a year earlier, so it is necessary to do some math to find the comparable numbers

Some cautions about EEO referral sources

Media Bureau assessed substantial fines and EEO reporting conditions upon the renewals of 11 stations

Up and down 2011 ended down for radio stocks and up for TV

RBR-TVBR Exclusive: 2011 may have been a better year for the broadcasting business, but from the point of view of Wall Street investors there was...

2012 Forecasts: Get ready for the political dollars

RBR-TVBR Exclusive: In this, our eighth yearly forecast from the 4As, RAB, TVB, CAB, IAB, NAA, SNTA and OAAA, RBR-TVBR asked major industry organization...