‘Tigre’ Takes A Translator For Full-Market Coverage
Townsquare Media and iHeartMedia dominate a Colorado market that is home to 83,500 Hispanics. This audience has an option known as "El Tigre," and its owner just took ownership of an FM translator that secures this station's full-market coverage.
Is Entravision Stock ‘Volatile’?
With Thursday's close at $2.77, Entravision Communications shares are at their lowest price since February 2013. But, does that make EVC a volatile stock?
iHeart’s Big Branding Move, Via A Popular App
"Every great game show needs a great soundtrack and host." This is iHeartRadio's explanation for why it has partnered with a popular interactive smartphone game to roll out "a one-of-a-kind word themed trivia game feature." Here's the scoop on how the nation's No. 1 radio company is brand-building.
A Magnum-Sized Translator Deal Is Done
One Wisconsin-based owner of radio stations celebrated the Christmas holiday by formally moving forward with an acquisition agreed to in October. With the filing of multiple asset purchase agreements, six FM translators are being traded.
Thank Sister Grace for making the silver bells a little shinier.
Sooner Scooper: Mollman Plucks 7 Perry Signals
According to an asset purchase agreement filed Friday with the Commission, four FMs, three AMs and three translators in Oklahoma are being dealt to Mollman Media. The seller is a champion of minority broadcasters across the U.S.
Corpus Christi FM Finds Christ
A Class C1 FM with a booming signal over the Texas Gulf Coast, known to Spanish speakers as "the hot one," is about to go up in flames. That's because the No. 2 licensee of radio stations in the U.S. is about to give it a burst of contemporary Christian music, through its pending ownership.
SLC Call: Aerostar Completes Maverick Move
A broadcast licensee led by Michael V. Call, who has attributable ownership interest in Mav Radio Holdings Inc., has obtained full ownership of a Class FM with no less than 4 boosters designed to give this facility full-market coverage of the Salt Lake City market.
Early Pact On Urban One Tender Offer Spurs New Credit Deal
The parent company of the TV One cable TV network, national radio arm Reach Media and the group of radio stations that serves as its core media assets has achieved an early settlement of its previously announced Tender Offer to purchase its 9.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020.
Schwartz, Withers and Beck Close On Their First Deal
A newly formed entity whose principals include Joe Schwartz, Dana Withers and John R. Beck Jr. has just closed on its purchase of a group of stations serving Northern Arizona.
Alpha Elects Skyview To Handle Network Audio Sales
The partnership is effective January 1, 2019, and creates a new range of customization opportunities for advertisers using Alpha Media's stations, Skyview Networks notes.
Medallas De Cortez Nominations End Friday!
Here's your chance to honor the radio industry executive, air personality or AM or FM station serving U.S. Hispanics in ways no others do. Make your nominations now for the 2019 Medallas de Cortez awards — the symbol of excellence in Hispanic radio. The window closes Friday!
A Lazer Target On Regional Mexican Listeners
To learn why Lazer Broadcasting is bringing its take on regional Mexican programming to the nation, and how both Envision and SuiteRadio are involved, Josh Mednick sat down with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson in this lively and informative Hispanic Radio Podcast.
Meet iHeart’s Big New Shareholder
A Boston-based investment firm appears to have ironed out its differences with the entity representing iHeartMedia's legacy noteholders — a sign that iHeart's release from debtor-in-possession status by a Houston-based bankruptcy court is chugging along toward a January 2019 resolution.
More Presence In Minnesota’s Far North
Some 64 air miles north of Duluth, Minn., lies the city of Babbitt. It recently made headlines for a transaction involving Duke Wright's Midwest Communications and Aurora Broadcasting. Now, Aurora is spinning two of the three stations it obtained in that deal.
Entercom’s Solid Revitalization Move In Buffalo
Thanks to two FM translators, one AM radio station has enjoyed a renaissance that puts an exclamation point on the idea of "AM revitalization." Now, Entercom wants to replicate that success seen in Buffalo.