Radio+Television Business Report

Strike up MacNamara’s Band but you may want to hold on that Half and Half or Irish Coffee until digesting the numbers.  Townsquare Media will be releasing its Q4 and full-year 2024 financial results bright and early on St. Patrick's Day.

Shippensburg, Pa., is widely known across the Keystone State as a college town, situated between Harrisburg and Chambersburg. Here, an FM translator is trading hands, suggesting a change in programming for a non-secular offering at 99.9 MHz that must protect a highly rated Country station licensed to Frederick, Md.

Some 700 marketing professionals have chimed in on consumer, advertising, and media trends for the first half of 2025, and Mediaocean is now presenting them in an ad outlook report that is steeped in digital and connected TV suggestions. Does this leave linear media out in the cold? 

The licensee led by Dave and Connie Stout that has operated an FM translator with a CP allowing it to move from Hartford, Wisc., to a 99-watt facility within Milwaukee city limits agreed in November 2024 to sell the facility to a broadcast ministry. The FCC has now granted the transfer of control request.

The nation's No. 1 owner of radio stations has decided when it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and for the full year of 2024.  It will see iHeartMedia's CEO and CFO share their results on a busy day in which TEGNA, Nexstar Media Group and Gray Media will also be releasing their Q4 '24 fiscal report cards.

Shareholders will receive a bonus of 12.5 cents per share, payable on April 1, so long as the are stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 7. The announcement comes ahead of earnings for the fourth quarter of 2024. What can investors expect from the company?

The owner of broadcast television stations in six markets born out of Post-Newsweek Stations has signed a multi-year agreement for local television measurement with the nation's dominant ratings, data and analytics provider.

The E.W. Scripps Company has tapped a veteran sales executive who has been with the company since 2016 to lead all revenue strategy and business development efforts across Scripps’ collection of local television stations. Starting Monday, he will hold the role of VP of Local Media Sales.

The first full week of February was a big one for sports, and not just for the National Football League. The NBA was the biggest brand among the advertisers choosing Spot Cable for the week ending February 9. But a new campaign from a cruise line is making waves, and deserves notice.

The company behind the MeTV brand that also owns broadcast TV stations in markets such as Milwaukee and Chicago has convinced the FCC's Media Bureau to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on a proposal to shift one of its properties from one city to another in the Land of Enchantment.

Former KBEQ-FM in Kansas City programmer and air talent Todd Nixon couldn't be busier. He just launched "Lompoc's Greatest Hits" on Monday morning, and on Sunday signed off on an asset purchase agreement that will see his Sticks Media acquire a Class A FM in the Show-Me State. 

“Gray has been a fantastic partner in helping us increase visibility and support in the market by providing fans direct access to see our games,” said Dream President/Chief Operating Officer Morgan Shaw Parker. “Demand for the Dream is at an all-time high, as evidenced by the full-season 20 game sell out last season."

As Sam Metheny, the NAB's Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer since 2014, contends, there's a critical issue facing our nation’s infrastructure that needs to be addressed: "the vulnerability of GPS and the need for a secure, terrestrial alternative."

The six radio brands serving St. Louis owned by the nation's largest owner of broadcast radio stations have a new leader, and it is a longtime community figure who began her career as a morning show producer at KSD Radio in St. Louis.

A pair of radio stations licensed to a rural Idaho community north of Boise is about to get a new owner, pending FCC approval. Who's agreed to purchase "Star 95.5" and its "Superstar Country" sibling?

It's a Minnesota community where the temperature as of 9:30am this morning was -12 F.  This town of less than 3,500 residents on the banks of the Chippewa River is home to a group of radio stations operating as Benson Radio. And, these stations are being sold, according to an asset purchase agreement.

A Class A noncommercial FM radio station serving a small Iowa community is poised to become the latest property licensed to American Christian Radio.

It's known as the city where the first "911" call was placed, and just south of the Alabama cities of Muscle Shoals and Florence. Here, a Class A FM is being sold, as Harold Bearden parts ways with his bit of "Paradise."

A media company that provides online audio streaming and podcasting services with a particular focus on "serving diaspora communities worldwide" has a new Chief Information Officer.

Marc Jaromin's resumé includes stints as the head of WKBW-7 in Buffalo from fall 2019 through autumn 2023; and as the associate dean for the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation’s Broadcast Leadership Training program. Jaromin is now in the news for his latest role, one that sees him join Futuri.