Saturday, October 18, 2025

Sirius XM shareholders give Mel the ok

The votes have been tallied from the annual shareholders meeting of Sirius XM. The owners of the company gave CEO Mel Karmazin everything he asked for to complete the company’s financial

NABEF to honor “Extreme Makeover”

ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” has been selected as this year’s winner of the NAB Education Foundation’s Leadership Award. The award for public service...

Is Twitter right for my brand?

Brands are trying to find the right mix of traditional and new ways to reach their customers – and with smaller budgets than they...

Olbermann fires back at Limbaugh

We are aware that one of the popular sporting events for a certain class of broadcast pundit is an internecine war of words with others of their own kind. These things can go on forever

Television, Bailouts, Greed and Corruption. What gives? What's next?

My Name is Steven Brant. I am a professional broadcast engineer and very proud of it and my accomplishments. I have over 30 years of engineering in broadcasting

AFTRA and SAG ratify commercial contract

Word came down late Thursday that members of SAG and AFTRA had ratified the new commercial contract with the 4As and ANA tentatively agreed...

The Radio Pendulum

Radio began in the early 1920’s as an experimental medium – almost a toy! By the late 20’s and early 1930’s it had become a major source of news, info and entertainment for the American family

ATMs: New competitor in the local space?

There are hundreds of thousands of automated teller machines in the United States, and for the most part, their owners and operators have been content to slap their company name on them

News business experiencing normalcy trend

After experiencing long periods of time where one story is sucking all the oxygen out of the newshole week after week, as the election...

Reese to chair NAB search

Bonneville International Corp. President and CEO Bruce Reese will chair the search committee to find a successor to NAB President and CEO David Rehr.Rehr’s...

Cox Radio goes private; Who’s next?

The answer is Hearst-Argyle Television, where the pending tender offer by Hearst Corporation expires next month. But after that, the options for any public

Limbaugh challenges MSNBC

Conservative radio talkmeister Rush Limbaugh thinks they have a format over at cable news channel MSNBC – and that format is Rush Limbaugh. He’s challenged them to go a month without him

On Panama going with HD Radio

I see where the latest HiDeaf Praise Report is Panama's adoption of High Deaf format of On Band and In Someone Else Channel Broadcasting. We (my dogs and cats, gun collection and

A sportscaster to look up to

7-foot-1 center Shaquille O’Neal of the NBA Phoenix Suns has been at Syracuse University the past few days preparing for the future. That’s a...

Connecticut School of Broadcasting to reopen

Former owner Dick Robinson appeared with Connecticut state officials to announce that a federal bankruptcy court has approved a deal to have him acquire...