Friday, June 13, 2025

Sports

The Sporting Life of TV Fans

The more you know about your audience, the better – and RBR-TVBR continues its ongoing effort to shed light on as many facets of...

April Broadcast Stocks All Over the Place

That was true on the radio side of the ledger, at least among the stocks followed by RBR+TVBR. The range of plusses and minuses...
Deal

Station trading: That was the month that was

It’s time to do come catch-up in our ongoing effort to keep track of station trading during 2013. Today – the month of July, during which television cemented its dominance as the primary center of trading attention.
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Wall Street was a happy place last week

Broadcasters were able to swim against the tide
Auto

Car Preferences of the Middle-Aged Radio Audience

In our first installment of this report we looked at the youth movement – in particular, what young-skewing radio audiences want to drive when...

Predicting Post-Pandemic Media Consumption

The first wave of a post-pandemic survey has been commissioned, and its goal is to explore the impact that COVID-19 has had on entertainment, leisure, and lifestyle habits. It includes a special focus on changes in television services used and viewing behaviors.

A Stock Week TV Would Like to Forget

It wasn’t that any one particular television stock got creamed

Nielsen On Streaming: Consumers ‘Overwhelmed’ by Choice

The information from Nielsen, which is mulling a takeover bid while shopping around for a better offer, offered the data in its first-ever "State of Play" report, which highlights the increasing boom of video content in both linear and streaming in recent years.

How Is Gen Z Consuming Video Content Today?

How young consumers relate to long-form content, user-generated content and even eSports means a lot to today's broadcast and cable TV programming, sales and leadership teams. Thus, this Horowitz Research study is a must-read, as it seeks to tell advertisers what they should consider when looking to engage "these politically aware digital natives" — Gen Z watchers — in a big year for political dollars.
FCC

Here Are The Q1 2017 Broadcast Station Totals

The FCC has released its Q1 2017 Broadcast Station Totals, and there are little changes in the number of TV stations licensed for broadcast in the U.S. Meanwhile, there are more commercial FM radio stations across the nation.
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We aren’t sure what broadcasters were doing…

But we are sure that they weren’t filing station transactions with the FCC in any great numbers.
vAll HD Radio is coming to the AM band. But, has AM been out of vogue since these clock radios became obsolete?

Radio’s Big Consumption Calling Card, Noted By Nielsen

As the streaming wars heat up, the audience measurement and consumer data giant Nielsen notes that it's important to be mindful of just how much time consumers are spending with different media options ... such as radio. New data gives good ol' AM and FM a positive report card.
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Station Trading at a Standstill

We thought that it’s been a slow year in the station trading market

The COVID-19 Audio Delay: U.S. Listeners’ Later Daily Start

New data from the Edison Research Share of Earstudy, conducted during the period of COVID-19 disruptions, shows that people in the U.S. age 13 and older began listening to audio a full 75 minutes later on average, as compared to before the disruptions.
Deal

Deals: The Merry Month of May Eclipsed Q1

By any measure, stations are not trading like hotcakes this year