Stocks Down, With a Few Exceptions

The week of April 13-17 is not going to go down in broadcast history as a great week

Review Hot Nielsen Markets

Clark Smidt reviews the hot & not from Nielsen Audio August Markets #22-24.

Programmatic Comes of Age

Video monetization platform for publishers SpotXchange expects mobile video CPMs grow significantly this year as advertisers embrace the medium. As publishers use programmatic more proficiently,...
Deal

May Trading Injects Life into 2015 Value

There wasn’t anything off the charts about the 106 stations that were proposed for transfer

OOH’s TV Lift: Thank The Affluent Millennial

Younger consumers are cutting the cord, and finding new ways to watch video entertainment. The common belief is that these viewers are switching to SVOD services or viewing content on their phone, with no interest in linear TV. New data from Nielsen suggest that this assumption couldn’t be further from the truth.

iHeart Stock Takes Off as March Segues to April

If iHeartMedia stock had brought increased by just a nickel more

‘Thousands Of New Advertisers’ Are Using TV

Ad intelligence and sales enablement platform MediaRadar has a report that every broadcast TV C-Suiter will want to review. According to its 2018 TV Trends Report (Q1 2018 - Q1 2019), more than 2,000 new advertisers entered the television advertising market.
Nielsen

Latest Top 10 Nielsen Audio Ratings

Broadcast Connector analyst Clark Smidt (www.broadcastideas.com) reviews results for mid-June to
Sports

The Sporting Life of Radio 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...

Radio leads October station trading

As a general rule, radio is always king in terms of total sticks moved...

Broadcasters to September: Good-bye and good riddance

A recent report in USA today noted that September is notorious for being a very bad stock month, generally the worst of the year.
Deal

The Mid-April Station Trading Saga

The movement of stations from own owner to another
Cable / Satellite

Cable destinations of older radio fans

Here is the final group of radio charts in our massive hunt for radio fans when they’re surfing channels on the local cable system. We’ve looked at young and middle-aged audiences for both radio and television and next week we’ll check out older TV fans. To do this, we tap into the massive database of Prosper Insights and Analytics to do this. We think you’ll find the information both fascinating and useful.
People watching TV

What broadcast TV fans watch on cable: Young demo edition

Unfortunately, just because one of your loyal fans is watching something on television doesn’t mean they are watching your station. There is a whole...
Deal

Radio Shoulders the Deal-making Burden

There were only eight deals filed with the FCC during the first week of June