Radio+Television Business Report

He's a familiar face to RBR+TVBR readers as one of the Top Local TV Leaders of 2024. Now, Billy Robbins is taking on a larger, newly created corporate-level role for Sinclair Inc.

An FM radio station that had been off the air under Special Temporary Authority with a construction permit for a mountaintop facility south of Provo, Utah, has officially resumed operations. That news comes alongside a Notification of Consummation shared on Tuesday by the FCC four months after the deal closed.

In Q2, revenue improved to $1.22 billion, from $1.19 billion. But, that's thanks to increases in its education, manufacturing and healthcare businesses. TV broadcasting and automotive segments experienced year-over-year dips in the second quarter.

The renewed agreement includes expanded collaboration, increased automation, and ongoing support for station-level activations that deliver measurable results that drive ratings and revenue. Since 2005, the two companies have collaborated to create "high-performing, listener-focused solutions."

For Urban One, the Digital story will be potentially more difficult than for its peers. In Q2, the results were impacted "by weaker than expected performance" in both its national advertising and digital segments. Reduced streaming CPMs are part of the reason.

It is a consolidation of news-focus local programming OTT platforms — and the first of what could be several divestments from the company led by Chris Ripley. Zeam said the investment “strengthens the foundation of local broadcast journalism, helping stations remain competitive, grow reach, and monetize more effectively.”

BIA Advisory Services' revised 2025 U.S. Local Advertising Forecast projects total local advertising revenue to reach $169 billion this year, reflecting a 2.4% decline compared to the previous year. This updated forecast is a 1.5% decrease from the company’s earlier estimate of $171.4 billion.

Larry Crain has signed off on an agreement that will see the transfer of control of two AMs, two FM translators and four FM stations in Arkansas to a licensee led by Robert D. Connell that's all about freedom. In fact, that's the company's name.

He's become known across the radio industry as the President/CEO of broadcast technology company MaxxConnect. But, Josh Bohn also happens to be the Managing Member of Signal Mountain Broadcasting, an Alabama-based operation that's agreed to sell a daytime-only AM and its low-power TV sibling.

How to Black American listeners spend time with radio and other audio mediums? While it's been long known that African Americans overindex when it comes to their on-air and on-demand audio consumption, the latest Audio Today 2025 report from Nielsen Audio codifies fresh data illustrating this point. 

It comes as a big surprise to many. In a single sentence offered by its CEO at the start of its Q2 2025 earnings call, Caroline Beasley revealed that Beasley Media Group is selling its five radio stations in Fort Myers for $18 million. RBR+TVBR knows who the buyers are.

She began her media career in her hometown of Jackson, Miss., and after more than five years as a radio personality, she transitioned to TV news as a producer for WAPT-TV in Jackson, some 17 years ago. Now, she's been appointed Director of News and Multiplatform Content, starting August 25, at WGN-9.

Here's the good news when it comes to Beasley Media Group's Q2 2025 earnings report: the radio station owner's net loss declined. However, it appears that expense controls are to thank, as the net revenue and adjusted EBITDA each fell. A surprise transaction in its home market is also a likely factor.

They are described as "strategic executive promotions in enhanced leadership roles," and they see the VP of Business Development rising to the role of Chief Operating Officer while its seven-year VP of News is being elevated to the role of Chief Innovation Officer. There's also a third promotion at Morgan Murphy Media.

Today, former radio and television station licensee Schurz Communications is focused on regional broadband companies, through which cable TV services are offered. Now, it is mourning the death of its former chief executive, Franklin Dunn Schurz Jr. He passed away in Bozeman, Mont., at the age of 94.

It's a cue taken from internet services providers such as Xfinity and Spectrum, and could bring a whole new dimension to virtual MVPDs, which are now, like traditional cable television service companies, seeing subscriber roll struggles in the streaming age.

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A "Total TV" campaign forecasting, planning and optimization-focused global ad technology company is partnering with Charter Communications' Spectrum Reach advertising arm. It's a relationship that brings tvbeat’s programmatic capabilities to linear TV advertising in the U.S.

Deltatre, known as a provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports and media industries, has reached a five-year partnership with Italy's Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) to develop and run all aspects of LBA’s production and operations, third-party distribution, and DTC OTT offering.

It's a move that the company says is in response to broadcasters’ growing adoption of Next Generation Audio (NGA) to deliver more immersive, personalized and accessible content. The development marks a shift-change for object-based broadcast audio workflows, says SSL Broadcast Product Manager Berny Carpenter.