It is formally known as Marquee Broadcasting West, and it is led by COO Gene Steinberg on a day-to-day basis. Owned by Brian Lane and CEO Patricia Lane, this bicoastal radio and TV station owner has just agreed to purchase the radio properties of Bicoastal Media in Southern Oregon.
After reaching its highest diversity levels on record, radio newsrooms experienced a significant setback in workforce diversity during 2025. According to the Radio Television Digital News Association, minority representation dropped nearly five percentage points, erasing gains made since 2023.
The junior United States Senator from California has sent a formal letter to the Chairman of the FCC asking him to "clarify" the terms and conditions for approving the $8 billion merger between Skydance Media and Paramount Global — "including any role played by President Trump or his associates in influencing the FCC’s actions."
The passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025 defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and left the organization without operating funds for the next fiscal year. This led to a wind-down of CPB operations. Now, the CPB says it can't absorb the costs and manage the Next Generation Warning System grant program.
In broadcast TV, sports partnerships are becoming more numerous than ever. AM and FM radio remain equally important for pro and collegiate sports, and a new partnership will pair University of South Florida Athletics with a group of stations owned by Beasley Media Group.
A Class D AM with 1kw daytime power and 22 watts after dark to protect CFRB-AM in Toronto and WINS-AM in New York has been sold, along with its all-important FM translator serving a city along the banks of the Ohio River.
The publicly traded parent company of Hispanic consumer-focused Estrella Media and of venerable New York radio brands WBLS and "HOT 97" has a new Chief Revenue Officer, reporting to CEO Albert Rodriguez.
The Gray Media-owned dual NBC/The CW affiliate serving Wisconsin's state capital as "15 News" has selected a new News Director. She'll assume the role on September 8.
On August 12, Sinclair Inc. said its board of directors had authorized “a comprehensive strategic review for its Broadcast business.” It's now clear that, as part of this initiative, it is seeking to gain ownership of more stations it controls so it can then spin them to another party free of any shared services agreement needs.
"As radio stations nationwide grapple with AI adoption in creative departments, we're seeing a troubling trend in commercial quality," said Yaman Coskun, founder of yaman.AI and a former creative director with more than two decades in radio creative.
It went independent with its WANF-46 in Atlanta, but that's a unique situation tied to Paramount Skydance's desire to have CBS on an O&O in the South's biggest market and years of anticipation that, one day, the network would land on an owned property. For Gray Media and its FOX affiliates, the situation is very different — and secure.
It was another big week for an accident attorney specialist with Sunshine State roots that has developed a national practice and has gained considerable name recognition among U.S. consumers. A strong and steady video campaign that includes Spot TV is a big reason for that growth.
Protected by Mediocean, a tool used for what it calls "holistic ad verification," is partnering with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in an effort to strengthen safeguards in the digital media supply chain and "help protect children online."
The Graham Media Group-owned CBS affiliate serving Central Florida has promoted its News Director to the position of VP/GM just four months after joining the station.
Come August 19, SET Expo 2025 opens as the largest gathering of broadcasting, media and entertainment executives in Latin America. This year's event in Sao Paulo, hosted by the Brazilian Society of Television Engineering, will showcase a wide range of ATSC 3.0-based innovation supporting Brazil's DTV+ next-generation broadcast TV system.
Media Monitors has announced an expansion of its radio advertising tracking service, increasing national campaign coverage from 106 to 250 markets and committing to permanently store audio files of every ad it captures.
The Audio Division Chief within the FCC's Media Bureau has granted the request from the owner of a Class A FM at 97.9 MHz to move it a little closer to greater San Antonio.
The FCC's Media Bureau is proposing the allotment of Channel 226C3 at Enterprise, Utah, as the community's second local service and first competing FM local service. A comment window has opened for the public to chime in on the plan.
Gray Media has promoted from within to fill the role of Chief Technology Officer. He succeeds David Burke, who on July 31 formally retired and will continue advising the broadcast TV station owner through the end of 2025.
After climbing steadily from 2000 to 2017, the share of U.S. young adults living with their parents has fallen somewhat in recent years. That's according to data from Pew Research Center that could prove important to radio and television broadcasters seeking higher audiences — and more advertiser support.
