The sole owner of a Class A FM and a 5-watt FM translator companion covering a rural area of Western Maryland, a portion of West Virginia and a tiny piece of Pennsylvania has passed away. As such, an involuntary transfer of the broadcast assets to an estate is taking place.
The last station owned by Don McCoy's Magic Broadcasting is being spun to a locally based owner, ensuring "Real Talk 93.3" remains the only station in Florida's capital city not owned by a national radio broadcasting group.
Bringing content everywhere is a key focal point of Jack Abernethy's efforts as CEO of FOX Television Stations. He told Florida Association of Broadcasters members his team is "meeting customers where they are, be it on linear, social or streaming, and doing it with an obsessive focus on innovation, costs and efficiency."
When will the fiscal ills end for the owner of the Global TV network and a host of cable TV channels; the Canadian version of the Pluto TV platform; and a group of radio stations including CILQ "Q107," CFNY "The Edge," and CFIQ-AM 640 in Canada's biggest market? Not in fiscal 2025, the company revealed on Thursday.
An upcoming integration with the Mixing Station App allows performers to control their own monitor mixes from iOS or Android devices. "Ideal for live music environments, this personal mixing workflow reduces reliance on FOH or monitor engineers and helps each musician fine-tune their mix for greater clarity and confidence on stage," TASCAM says.
WPLG-10 will drop its decades-long ABC affiliation on August 4. This will see Sunbeam Television launch "ABC Miami" on the DT2 signal associated with FOX affiliate WSVN-7. Thanks to a new LMA agreement, "ABC Miami" will now be seen in the market on a DT1 signal associated with a low-power TV facility.
"Florida’s local advertising landscape is flourishing this year," boasts BIA's Christina Hurley, who led a presentation at the FAB annual convention illustrating a healthy increase in total local advertising revenue in 2025. There's just one problem: This is being driven by media other than those who are association members.
The newest FCC Commissioner has just completed her first Open Meeting. Immediately following the short by Commission standards gathering, Olivia Trusty shared who will serve as her Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel while welcoming three others to her office.
The nation's largest broadcast television station ownership group, which also owns the NewsNation cable TV enterprise and WGN Radio, has announced when it will release and discuss its second quarter financial results for 2025.
As Congress moves to act before its July 4 recess, former AEI visiting scholar and broadband economics expert Roslyn Layton discusses a revised spectrum bill in the U.S. Senate. In this think piece, Layton highlights why the proposal matters now—for broadband competitiveness and the restoration of FCC auction authority.
Want access to Hulu exclusives and happen to be a Charter Communications Spectrum customer? There's a tier offered by the MVPD giant that will now bring that to consumers at no additional cost, starting later this summer.
"Crafting Sound, Creating Experiences." That's the promise of a Coastal North Carolina limited liability company that has agreed to purchase a presently silent 50,000-watt FM reaching Nags Head and Kitty Hawk formerly known as "99.1 The Sound."
The FCC's newly minted third Commissioner and all-important quorum maker, Olivia Trusty, participated on Thursday in her first monthly Open Meeting. Among the agenda items is a Report and Order designed to remove "obsolete and unworkable" cable television rate rules.
Thanks to the advent of "Genre Packs" designed to smash the "big bundle," three of the "Big Four" networks had inked fresh deals with DirecTV to make that happen. On Thursday, the fourth officially signed off on its own deal.
This year’s edition goes beyond industry data with the introduction of a new and accessible format that ditches one large report. "Readers can now explore individual, focused sections on the most critical topics impacting media sales today," CSS says.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA) to support its Editor Corps program, which provides short-term editing help to local public media newsrooms across the country.
A Sinclair-owned MVPD-distributed offering and its streaming-only sibling will continue to serve as the exclusive homes of WTA tennis in the U.S. for the next several years, thanks to a new media rights deal announced on Wednesday.
In May 2024, a digital multicast specialist is launching a new subchannel network dedicated to classic cartoons in a partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, this vintage animation offering is being added to the DirecTV lineup, thanks to a multi-year carriage agreement.
It was a partnership that started in 2023 with a Local Marketing Agreement on a single station in Oregon. Now, Hope Media Group and Worship 24/7 are set to formally unite in a merger of the two Christian radio networks, in a significant global expansion for HMG.
For a generation of broadcast radio enthusiasts, it served as the definitive online hub of classic AM and FM programs, both scoped and as-aired with full songs and commercials. Now, ReelRadio is back, and it is thanks to the North Carolina Broadcast History Museum and Beasley Media Group.
