In this exclusive conversation with Adam R Jacobson, the President/CEO of The E.W. Scripps Co., Adam Symson, talks of how to get revenue ahead of expenses, the company's reinvention of local news, attracting advertisers to local newscasts, and how to combat the talk that only Seniors tune to local TV in Prime Time.
Madhive has appointed a Chief Product Officer while also welcoming to "the only unified operating system for local media" a new Chief of Staff.
The announcement comes as Madhive says it is expanding both its product suite and client roster.
Of the publicly traded broadcast media companies poised to present their first quarter 2025 earnings results to analysts and investors in the coming weeks, Sinclair Inc. has opted to take pole position and will release its results the afternoon prior to a bevy of releases from its peers.
There is a new General Manager for the ABC affiliate serving Lincoln, Neb., owned by Standard Media Group. And, he'll retain his role as Director of Sales, which he's held since 2020.
After earning a reputation at Pivotal Research, Brian Wieser established Madison and Wall as a strategic advisory and data provider for the global advertising industry. Now, he's expanding his leadership team by bringing on an eight-year veteran of one of Canada's biggest media companies.
He spent more than 14 years as Director of Sales at TEGNA's WXIA "11Alive" and MyNetwork sibling WATL-TV in Atlanta and is a former Tribune Broadcasting sales leader, leading efforts for the company's Indianapolis TV stations. Now, Tim McNamara is returning to a station he spent five years at earlier in his career.
Global consumer media usage, including all digital and traditional media channels, increased 2.4% in 2024 to an average of 57.2 hours per week, following a sharp deceleration in time spent with media growth in 2023. That's according to new findings in a just-released report from PQ Media.
As RBR+TVBR has shared with readers across 2025, ad dollars to content publishers and broadcasters have only come in spurts. A newly released report from WARC examines the conundrum — along with a potentially alarming shift in ad spend from what WARC calls "professionally produced content" to "user-generated and 'creator-journalists'."
National advertising sales specialist Katz Media Group has promoted from within to fill the roles of VP of Political Sales and Director of Political Sales, respectively. Each individual reports to CEO Mark Gray.
The Walker River Paiute Tribe of Native Americans in Nevada, due east of Lake Tahoe, has entered into a consent decree with the FCC that resolves a matter in which the tribe was tardy with the license renewals for a series of low-power TV stations it owns.
It is a 1kw Class C facility on the AM band that offers residents of a Mid-Missouri town St. Louis Blues hockey coverage, St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, University of Missouri sports and is a sibling to the "Your World Today" local news brand. Soon, it will have different ownership.
Roger S. Haddon is known across the radio broadcasting industry for his time as a Music Director, as a Program Director and as the President/CEO of the Sunbury Broadcasting Corp., comprised of four radio stations. Haddon has now decided to sell one of those properties.
Two U.S. Senators have asked the Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to lift its freeze on grants that are designed help improve the resiliency of public broadcasting stations.
It's a Class A FM serving Butte, Mont., as "The Zone," playing "everything that rocks." As of 10:30am Tuesday, "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour could be heard. In a matter of weeks, that programming will be replaced by Worship Music, if an Asset Purchase Agreement just filed with the FCC gets an OK.
A series of new free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) linear content offerings from the NBCUniversal portfolio are being added to the DirecTV platform — sort of. As of today, every DirecTV satellite-free streaming customer can access the channels via the MyFree DIRECTV platform.
Sage Weil has gained a reputation across Wisconsin for his desire to establish a statewide hub of progressive-leaning spoken word content for radio listeners. Now, he's ready to ship in his programming and sales team to Ripon.
Who needs to follow a main transmitter rule when boosters can provide a better signal to a more significant population? That's the argument ZoneCasting and MaxxCasting provider GeoBroadcast Services is making to the FCC in a petition tied to its "Delete. Delete. Delete" rule review initiative.
New federal legislation, when coupled with actions by the Commission, highlight regulatory ironies involving both the political left and right. That's the viewpoint of Clay Calvert, writing on behalf of the Washington, D.C. think tank American Enterprise Institute.
Multiscreen TV encourages ailment sufferers to educate themselves for better health. That is a chief takeaway from the newly released Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) report, "Dedicated to Your Good Health: How TV Drives Discovery & Encourages Education in the Pharma DTC Category."
