It's a 6kw Class A FM serving an area of Northeast Ohio between Mentor and Ashtabula, and airs a regional Oldies format that in the 4pm hour featured Detroit act 100 Proof (Aged in Soul) and the America track "Daisy Jane." Soon, this unique Oldies station will be in the hands of a new owner.
Nathan Simington and his new Chief of Staff, Adam Wax, have joined together for an opinion piece for an online news organization in which they emphatically support the FCC's investigations into CBS over alleged "news distortion." At the same time, Wax and Simington want big changes to "reverse compensation."
As 2025 began, Fubo agreed to its purchase by The Walt Disney Co. Now, the company led by CEO David Gandler has released its Q1 2025 results, perhaps its last first quarter fiscal report as an independent "sports first" vMVPD. The details are a bit cheerful. It's the Q2 visibility that's a bit glum.
Radio Ink and Radio + Television Business Report are proud to announce that Cox Media Group Executive Vice President and Head of Radio Rob Babin and Nexstar Networks President Sean Compton will serve as co-chairs for Forecast 2026. The event is scheduled for November 12 at the Harvard Club in New York.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says the agency is moving forward with an effort to "terminate" more than 2,000 official proceedings that have become dormant and, in his view, "no longer serve a purpose for the American people." It's unread to the "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative that has captured the media's attention.
The President/CEO of America's Public Television Stations says the organization is "deeply concerned" by a late-night Executive Order signed by President Trump on May 1 that directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop direct and indirect funding of both PBS and NPR.
The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter, pending customary closing conditions. The total purchase price is $185 million in cash, which includes $75 million held back that is tied to meeting performance goals and milestones over the next two years.
The White House has trumped Congressional Republicans who have sought a cessation of federal funding for the noncommercial educational organizations that are not FCC licensees but provide programming to broadcast stations across the U.S. and its territories.
"The Station Of The Cross" Catholic Media Network can be heard on a group of radio stations stretching from Northeast Ohio to the Bay State. However, a transaction has been agreed to that will see the sale of properties in Massachusetts to another non-secular broadcast group.
The nation's largest Spanish-language audio content creation and distribution company that is certified Hispanic-owned returned to profitability in 2024, following the return to day-to-day leadership of President/CEO and founder Raúl Alarcón Jr.
Graham Holdings Company, the diversified publicly traded business that is parent to Graham Media Group, this week released its Q1 2025 earnings report. How did the broadcast TV division, led by Catherine Badalamente, do? Revenue was on the decline in the first three months of this year.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded five grants totaling $9.6 million to statewide public broadcasting networks in Louisiana, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, as well as KSUT Tribal Radio in Colorado.
U.S.-based employers announced 105,441 cuts in April, down 62% from the 275,240 job cuts in March. But, it is up 63% from the 64,789 cuts announced in the same month last year, global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reports.
Nexstar Media Group CFO Lee Ann Gliha will be representing the company she works for at an institutional investor affair on May 14 in Boston, and again on June 5 in a venue familiar with Forecast conference attendees.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded the latest in a series of grants to prioritize local reporting, with a big grant being given to the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom (AMSN).
The two television stations owned by Nexstar Media Group serving Erie, Pa., now have a new VP and General Manager. He arrives at the stations after 7 1/2 years at Sinclair Inc., working in Oklahoma.
As RBR+TVBR first reported on January 16, Patricia and Brian Lane successfully struck a deal for their company to purchase a quartet of TV stations in two small West Coast markets from Imagicomm Communications. That transaction, which saw Kalil & Co. serve as the strategic advisor, has now closed.
That's the message being shared on May 1 by Nielsen as it debuted "The Ad Supported Gauge," a new quarterly report offering a comprehensive look at the segment of television that delivers advertising across broadcast, cable and streaming.
A proposal that many radio broadcast station owners disapprove of appeared to advance out of the Senate Commerce Committee during its Wednesday session and move on to a floor vote by the full Senate. But, that piece of legislation particularly disliked by AM radio station owners, is on hold thanks to a technicality.
In a move that differentiates the organization from many of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies and the NAB, the leading advocacy group representing Black-owned station owners has asked the FCC not to weaken the rules establishing "subcaps" for both AM and FM radio in the U.S.
