As expected, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez today signed off on an emergency motion giving Audacy Inc. the ability to extend its pause on meeting certain financial obligations beyond Monday — a request that came earlier this week due to FCC inaction in approving its post-bankruptcy restructuring agreement.
Radio station owners seeking new independent processing options for their HD subchannels can now consider a new offering from Orban that's getting its formal introduction at the upcoming IBC conference in Amsterdam.
On July 24, a NALF was handed to Carolina University, licensee of a Chattanooga, Tenn., FM translator, for failing to file a timely license renewal application and for unauthorized operation. Now, the FCC has upheld that fine. However, it agreed to reduce the licensee's financial penalty.
The world's biggest Spanish-language content creation and distribution company has reached a new multi-year partnership with Major League Baseball. And, fans will not have to wait until the 2025 season to tune to coverage en español on both sides of the Rio Grande.
Three AM radio stations, an FM serving a tiny Hamilton County, N.Y., hamlet, and four FM translators are poised to change hands, thanks to a deal reached on July 17 that has just been filed with the FCC for its regulatory OK.
He comes to the WayFM network owner after seven years at Ramsey Solutions, where he rose to Executive Director of Product Engineering. Previously, he held the role of Director of Technology for StyleNet and PatientFocus.
A Fargo-based media company that owns WDAY-AM, WDAY-6 and The Forum newspaper serving this South Dakota city has agreed to purchase an NBC affiliate and two low-power television station siblings in Rapid City, S.D. It's a transaction that sees Kalil & Co. serve as the broker.
A new report that focuses on the major trends shaping programmatic advertising over the coming 12 months finds that brand safety is a top concern for some 60% of advertisers and agencies surveyed. This has resulted in 76% of respondents spending as much as 40% less on open web advertising.
The broadcast media industry's publicly traded radio and television companies may have just released their second quarter financial results one week ago, but that hasn't stopped the nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations from announcing when it plans on distributing its Q3 fiscal report card.
Cumulus Media has promoted from within to fill the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Podcasting role at the company. In this new role, this individual will lead the Cumulus Podcast Network’s day-to-day operations, content acquisition, editorial, and production.
In the latest move by Corus Entertainment as it seeks to control its expenses in a period of extreme economic challenges, the company has turned off the lights at what had once been one of Ontario's most powerful AM radio stations.
For the last 12 years, he’s led the team in the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. Now, he is taking the additional role of President/GM of the company's ABC and The CW stations serving Iowa's state capital.
He spent 18 years at the FOX-owned television stations serving the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Starting August 26, he'll be back at Fox Television Stations, this time as VP/Regional General Sales Manager for its broadcast properties in Houston and Austin.
Democrats on the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee have penned a letter to Jessica Rosenworcel expressing their strong support for a NPRM to "promote transparency" by requiring disclosure when content generated by artificial intelligence is used in political ads.
In September 2022, Scott Centers was in the news for his decision to sell a low-power television station in Las Vegas. Now, he's back in the news as a buyer, as he's agreed to purchase a San Francisco LPTV operation.
Lotus Communications has assumed control of a Class A FM radio station serving Fresno from the west that was once owned by the late Art Laboe. The company led by Jim Kalmenson is already operating the station under a TBA, and seeks to capture older audiences of Mexican heritage.
She most recently served as Partner and Chief Strategy Officer for Noise Digital, a performance marketing, technology and analytics agency which was acquired by Havas Media Network in Spring 2023. Now, she's been appointed as its new Canadian President.
He's been the Area President for iHeartMedia's stations across the Albany and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; and Sussex, N.J. Nielsen Audio markets and before that was based in Nashville as President/COO for Buntin Out-of-Home Media LLC. Now, he's heading back to Music City USA to run iHeart's stations there.
Sinclair Inc. may be primarily known for its broadcast television stations, the Tennis Channel and four digital multicast channels, but it also has a podcast division. On August 21, it is officially expanding with the launch of a new slate of sports programming titles.
He most recently served as the founding partner of an advocacy and consulting firm specializing in the representation of clients in the telecom, health care, and defense industries in matters before the Congress and the executive branch of the federal government. Now he's with Nexstar in D.C.
