Radio+Television Business Report

When it came time for yuletide viewing of entertainment, Americans went to over-the-top streaming platforms more than ever. According to Nielsen, Christmas Day 2024 was the most-streamed day of television in the U.S. in its history of audience measurement.

As noted public speaking coach Rosemary Ravinal sees it, "Celebrated quotes condense complex ideas into a few words. They’re a form of sound bites, sticky and easy to remember." In the realm of public speaking, the best quotes remind one that an influential speaker is not born but made through practice, she writes.

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Woodward Communications in late 2024 acquired radio stations from Neuhoff Media and, one month later, Mid-West Family Broadcasting. To satisfy local ownership caps, it is agreeing to sell a Class A facility serving Bloomington-Normal, Ill. The buyer is a non-secular operator.

Here's another transaction that sees a non-commercial religious broadcast entity snap up a commercially licensed property — one that happens to be dark under Special Temporary Authority from the FCC.

The answer, based on the responses of some 1,130 local ad buyers surveyed during Fall 2024 by Borrell Associates, is a resounding "yes."

Gray Media will broadcast Super Bowl LIX using High Dynamic Range (HDR) on all of the company's FOX-affiliated television stations available via the ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV digital broadcast standard.

The 2025 Medallas de Cortez award nominations are now open. The highly coveted awards will be presented at the 16th Hispanic Radio Conference, June 11-12 in Houston. Now is the opportunity for YOU to nominate the shining stars in the Hispanic radio industry.

The parent of the CTV network, OTT platform Crave, sports network TSN and a group of iHeartRadio-branded stations distributed Q4 2024 financial results on Thursday that President/CEO Mirko Bibic say represent "steady execution" as the company "balanced growth with profitability, while transforming our business and reducing costs."

Dennis Richmond, one of the nation’s first Black anchors of a major market TV newscast, joined KTVU as a clerk and rose to the rank of anchor in 1976. He became one of the Bay Area's most well-known news anchors, and is now being mourned.

The distribution of the advisory comes days after Tennessee Senator and former House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Marsha Blackburn wrote to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to rein in the practice of free artist performances by broadcast stations.  As she sees it, that's a "plug-ola" action needing a hard stop.

The junior Democrat sitting as an FCC Commissioner has issued another missive against the Chairman and Republican Commissioner Nate Simington for moving forward with a probe of CBS News for alleged news distortion — a claim made by President Trump days before he won the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

The 2021 WNBA Champion Chicago Sky are heading to broadcast television in the Windy City, thanks to a freshly inked deal with Weigel Broadcasting. The company's flagship property will provide live television broadcasts of more than 30 Sky games during the upcoming season. Games will be available via streaming and linear platforms.

High Plains Radio Network, the entity led by Monte Spearman, in early March 2020 agreed to sell two AMs, two FMs and a FM translator in Arkansas to Broadcast Industry Group, led by Charles Jayson Brentlinger. That deal did not close. In July 2023, a reengineered deal was struck. That transaction also failed. Now, a new buyer has emerged.

Shareholders of Saga Communications — the lone radio industry "pure-play" with a publicly traded stock — have been rewarded with a juicy dividend in quarter after quarter. The company today led by Chris Forgy has just approved another stockholder bonus.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which conservative Republicans and the Trump Administration seeks to defund, has awarded a $1 million grant to a public media journalism collaboration covering agricultural and rural issues.

In a bit of a throwback to the day when the audio for analog Channel 6 could be heard on 87.7 MHz, a FOX Television Station is bringing its audio to a HD multicast signal of an Atlanta FM. This time, that audio feed can be found on the right end of the dial.

President Trump’s push to expand the Federal Communications Commission's authority over broadcast journalism "risks First Amendment conflicts and could backfire under future administrations."  That's the viewpoint of the nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

The six audio brands serving the city on the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers has a new leader, and it is a woman who has been associated with the radio stations owned by the nation's No. 1 owner of AMs and FMs since the early 2000s.

The same day it passed through the Senate Commerce Committee, the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" has been reintroduced in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Gus Bilirakis and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr.