Sinclair links with The Country Network to fill digital TV tier
Television owner/operator Sinclair Broadcast Group has found another source of programming designed to take advantage of multi-streaming enable by television’s digital transition -- the...
Rainmaker J.D. Hayworth may soon be able to resume radio career
KFYI Phoenix talker and former US Rep J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) left the Clear Channel station earlier this year in order to stop criticizing Sen....
PRA story goes mainstream
Everybody is putting their two cents in. Months have stretched into year while the radio industry and the recording industry have been duking it out over the Performance Rights Act, but unless you read the trades, you
Cell phones might sell Radio on PRA
RBR-TVBR Exclusive: Rank and file radio operators do not seem to be getting behind the Performance Rights Act deal that was outlined a few weeks ago
Emmis privatization: Fourth time no more charmed than the third
Friday 8/20/10 has come and gone, and there is still no deal to take Emmis Communications private via the acquisition of all of its outstanding stock by Jeff Smulyan
Breaking: Emmis vote delayed again
To no one's surprise, Emmis Communications has again adjourned its special shareholders meeting for another week, to Friday, August 27th. CEO Jeff Smulyan is...
Sirius XM to launch "Wine & Web with Gary Vaynerchuk"
It’s a live, two-hour weekly call-in show hosted by the wine expert, social media commentator and bestselling author. Gary’s unconventional commentary on wine has...
RAB reports radio in the black for both Q2 and YTD
A gain of 6% in radio revenue applies to both the second quarter and the first half of 2010, and it applies for both...
No news on the Emmis front
Wall Street clearly isn’t expecting anything to happen today at Emmis Communications, even though the repeatedly extended tender offers are again set to expire...
Q2 revenues down for Westwood One
The company is calling it “flat,” but revenues slipped $300K in Q2 at Westwood One to $83.4 million. Both the Network Radio and Metro...
NAB holding town hall meeting with US radio on PRA issue
Unlike the closed door Radio Board meeting held 8/6/10 that produced the outlines of a possible Performance Rights Act deal with musicFirst/RIAA,
WFAN names Fantasy Phenom finalists
Sports Radio 66, WFAN’s “Fantasy Phenom Challenge” has narrowed its field to five finalists who will vie for the Grand Prize of a chance...
FM in cell phone battle goes mainstream
Until now you pretty much had to be a reader of RBR-TVBR or some other broadcast industry trade publication to know that a deal between NAB and RIAA
92.3 WIL announces acts for "Cornbread's Worlds Fair"
92.3 WIL and "The Cornbread Morning Show" announced the musical acts and artists who will be appearing at the upcoming "Cornbread's Worlds Fair" End...
Farid Suleman gets $43.5 million Citadel stock grant
RBR-TVBR FIRST: Citadel has registered its 2010 Equity Incentive Plan to reward company managers the shares are being doled out to the head honcho-CEO Farid Suleman is getting far and away the biggest stock grant. According to an SEC filing