Sunday, July 12, 2026

An Exercise in Snark

musicFIRST leveled some charges at NAB, and we responded

Ratings Road Trip from Utah to Indiana

This trip does not follow a straight line – it meanders from market to market according to its size as measured by Nielsen Audio....
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Jorgenson Scoops up Four AMs

After filing as buyer in two deals, Mark Jorgenson has some inventory on his stations-for-sale shelf

First 2015 Shots in Royalty War Coming

Broadcasters, this can’t be good. There is a press conference on the books
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Dallas Buy is Prequel to a Sale

Mark Jorgenson is in the business of media brokerage. But in this story

GatesAir Introducing FM on Channels 5 and 6

The FCC has been facing the issues of lack of broadcast ownership diversity and struggling AM stations

Why Broadcasters Win in the Age of Community

Stacey Lynn Schulmansays that the very nature of digital highlights what is so great about broadcast advertising
Broadcasting Pirate

O’Rielly Proposes Taking Pirates to Court

FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly notes that the scourge of broadcast piracy
Towers

Adams Adds Rep to Coastal Cluster

Last September the Adams Radio Group acquired a significant portion of the oversized Great Scott radio group

iHeartMedia and Katz Go Programmatic

They all say programmatic is the wave of the future, and iHeartMedia is bringing it into the present
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Anderson Flag Flies High in Arizona

Flagstaff Radio Inc. already owns two AMs and four FMs in Flagstaff-Prescott
SESAC, Inc.

SESAC Hit with Downgrade

It has a stable outlook, but part of the problem is the performance rights organization’s generosity to its shareholders

Allstate On Board for FM Interactive Test

Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan calls it no less than the dawn of a new age for radio
HD Radio

HD Reaches Dashboard Benchmarks

HD radio as provided by iBiquity brings AM and FM radio into the digital age
Jeff Smulyan

NextRadio is Radio’s Next Big Thing

That’s what Jeff Smulyan of Emmis Communications is preaching