The Next Radio License Renewal Cycle: Facts and Deadlines
By way of a Public Notice issued Friday, the Media Bureau released essential information on the upcoming 2019-2022 radio license renewal cycle. Here are all of the basics you and your entire executive team should have printed out and kept in an easily accessible place.
With College Degree, Higher Listening To Radio?
As a follow up to Deloitte’s Prediction 2019 forecast regarding the resilience of AM/FM radio, DMR/Interactive President/COO Andrew Curran engaged in a conversation with the report's author. His insights were put to words in a column penned by Curran.
Three Key Tasks To Make Successful Event-TV Spots
Successful ads during major broadcast events, such as the Super Bowl, need to meet three goals. What are they? A new analysis from Kantar provides TV industry ad sales execs with the answer.
The Set-top Box: Imperfect Tool For Multicultural Measurement
Being able to measure in a way that fairly represents all races, ages, ethnicities and behaviors is crucial for the industry to transact with confidence. It’s also the only way to make sure that content choices reflect the diversity of a given station’s community.
Is Payless’ Demise A Learning Lesson For Broadcast Media?
Payless Shoe Source in February joined a long list of brands now in the "Ghostly Galleria," as it announced it is closing all of its stores as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan. Digital delivery killed the brick-and-mortar store. Should broadcast media worry?
Where OTA TV Is Strongest, And With Whom
As of May 2018, some 16 million over-the-air homes are present in the U.S. Nielsen used its data to provide deeper insights into the different types of over-the-air viewers -- and where they are most likely to reside -- in a newly released report.
Esports: The CMO’s Millennial Male Connector
Looking to connect with hard-to-reach millennial males? Esports could be the solution, and a newly released study from the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) only cements this belief.The report, VAB notes, "is a primer on the esports category."
How FCC Concerns Prompted Angst
What is the genesis for “The Coalition For Transparency, Clarification and Simplification of Regulations pertaining to American Broadcasting”? Featured Media Information Bureau columnist Ken Benner shares all in his latest exclusive-to-RBR+TVBR column.
Nationalizing 5G Is Not the Way to Beat China
Reports surfaced last week that advisers to the administration are calling for the U.S. to embrace China-style nationalization as our path to 5G. That’s like looking to Cuba as inspiration for reforming the U.S. health-care system, says FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr.
Is Every Media Outlet ‘A Winner’ Now?
After a "rollercoaster" end to 2018, the Q4 media earnings season was essentially a "snoozer" in the eyes of top Wall Street financial analyst Michael Nathanson. As his team processes its post-4Q earnings takeaways, it sees very little changes to 2019 expectations.
In Facebook We Trust?
"Welcome to the world of trade-offs," writes James Pethokoukis. "Facebook is the imperfect creation of one group of imperfect humans used by other imperfect humans -- lots of them." But, the American Enterprise Institute columnist and policy analyst writes, that doesn’t have to be the end of story.
Are Women Excelling In GM, GSM or PD Roles at Radio?
Each year, the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group compiles and analyzes the number of women in radio broadcasting who are rising to the ranks of management. The latest study has been released, and here are all of the top-line details you should know.
More Insight On License Revocation Prevention
A column by John Wells King and Erwin Krasnow, "How To Lose Your Station's FCC License," has become a reader favorite worthy of encore appearances at RBR.com. Independent Alternative FCC Compliance Certification Inspector Ken Benner read it, and offers additional thoughts on keeping one's license.
How To Lose Your Station’s FCC License
On Dec. 28, 2017, RBR+TVBR published what has emerged as one of its most popular Media Information Bureau columns. The title of this piece by John Wells King and Erwin Krasnow says it all. It remains one of our most requested columns, and we are pleased to share it anew.
Benner: One FCC Regulation In Need Of Transparency
Tucson-based Media Information Bureau columnist Ken Benner just submitted a fresh column focused on FCC Reg. §73.2080. What is that? You better read this column, because he believes it is important for radio and TV station owners -- and that this rule needs FCC transparency now.