Radio+Television Business Report

Hearst Television has established a fellowship honoring a company executive who led the company’s promotion and marketing efforts for more than a dozen years as Vice President and Senior Vice President, before her December 2024 retirement.

Have you been wondering what a major root cause of negative broadcast revenue in 2025 could possibly be? Futuri, the AI-focused media technology company led by CEO Daniel Anstandig, uncovered the answer in a just-completed forensic analysis that put a microscope on the TV industry. 

In just a few weeks, the nation's largest publicly traded broadcast television station ownership groups will draw the curtain on their respective second quarter 2025 earnings reports that are predicted to be strong. That's excited investors, with some impressive year-to-date growth seen for Gray and some of its peers.

Graduates from the University of Maryland will receive hands-on investigative reporting experience at major media outlets as Fellows within the Scripps Howard Foundation-funded offering. The nonprofit newsrooms hosting the fellows during the program include NPR and The Maine Monitor. The fellowships, which are awarded biannually, are given to graduates of the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland and Arizona State University.

The licensee of a Class B AM radio station serving an area of Puerto Rico due west of metropolitan San Juan has entered into a Consent Decree with the FCC Media Bureau's Audio Division Chief that puts to an end a probe into an unauthorized transfer of control.

The coalition of network radio vendors and subscribers dedicated to advancing national radio audience measurement research is adding research leaders from Audacy Networks, Compass Media Networks, Entravision, Key Networks-United Stations, and Reach Media to its roster.

Scholarship recipients for this year’s Rising Through the Ranks program, presented by RAB and Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio, Inc. (MIW), have been selected.

The QSR that wants you to "have it your way" has a way with getting its messaging out to the public. For the month of July, that very much involves a big Spot Cable campaign, the latest data from Media Monitors show.

John Lyon, whose decades-long presence on News/Talk WMAL in Washington, D.C. intertwined with one of the region’s most haunting mysteries, has died at the age of 85. Lyon’s 22-year career at the former ABC Radio station at 630 kHz, now a Cumulus Media property at 105.9 MHz, began in the early 1970s.

It's a Class B FM with a huge coverage area that uses a broadcast tower just south of the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, allowing it to serve Chambersburg and Hanover, Pa.; Martinsburg, W. Va.; and parts of Maryland including Hagerstown and Frederick. Soon, it will be a sibling to a longtime Baltimore-based Christian broadcaster.

Generative AI adoption surged in early 2025, reflecting a significant shift in how organizations are integrating this technology. This transpired despite challenges that impact project success, new research from S&P Global Market Intelligence reveals.

With longtime D.C. attorneys David Oxenford and Mark Lipp handling the submission to the FCC, three radio broadcasting companies have offered comments to the Commission asking that its "dual band" regulatory policy for expanded band AM radio stations get a fresh look and slight modernization.

Senators Ben Ray Lújan and Ed Markey have written to the newest FCC Commissioner to not only congratulate her on being seated, but more importantly to convince her colleagues to move ahead with a full Commission vote on the proposed merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media.

Triple Helix's newest executive has a career spanning technical operations, sales, and executive management, most recently serving as VP of Operations at DJB Radio Software. He is also well-known in the industry through his roles with the Central Canada Broadcast Engineers and Society of Broadcast Engineers.

She succeeded Walt "Baby" Love as Urban Editor of former radio industry trade publication Radio & Records and in the years since that role has excelled as one of the leading R&B and Hip-Hop programming executives in the business. Now, Kashon Powell is taking a key role for iHeartMedia in the nation's No. 3 market.

It is a Class C2 FM serving Alabama's biggest market from Gardendale offering a blend of Top 40 music anchored by the syndicated Tino Cochino Radio in morning drive. Soon, that will all end, as Summitmedia has agreed to sell the facility.

A partnership between Todd and Margaret Marker has emerged as the pending new owner of a pair of FM translators serving a pair of cities in the Coachella Valley of California. The seller is an entity led by Ronald Cohen.

A legal battle between Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw and Audacy's lead equity interest holder escalated on Thursday as Soros Fund Management and its Head of Media Investments, Michael Del Nin, filed aggressive responses to a lawsuit filed by Warshaw in which he claims he should have Kelli Turner's job.

On April 14, RBR+TVBR first reported on a transaction that saw Marc McCain and his Sugar Valley Broadcasting agree to purchase an AM/FM combo serving communities due east of the Atlanta metropolitan area. That deal, brokered by Jon Yinger, has now closed.

The veteran radio industry figure has decided to sell an AM in Libby, Mont., he's been associated with since February 1977, and has arranged a concurrent deal to say farewell to that station's FM sibling.