Thanks to the "PIRATE Act," the FCC is able to go after landlords of buildings found to be the origin point for unlicensed radio stations. Now, an individual who owns a property in a small city north of Dayton, Ohio, has been warned to stop the buccaneer broadcasts coming from the site.
In September 2018, the post-Les Moonves era at what was then-called CBS Corporation entered another new chapter. Dick Parsons — the former head of Time Warner — was named Interim Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Now, many across the broadcast media industry are paying tribute to Parsons, who died December 26 in New York.
The made-for-TV movie was a genre that helped to make Irv Wilson an integral broadcast TV executive in the 1970s. Wilson died on Thursday at the age of 93, following a short illness. His work includes an acclaimed account of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which aired on ABC some 50 years ago as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation.
The Christmas holiday season is now in the past, but there was one big retail chain that took to Spot TV to target last-minute shoppers in the two days leading up to Santa Claus' arrival across the U.S.
Flags are at half-staff and a National Day of Mourning is scheduled for Thursday, January 9, in honor of the 39th president of the United States. James Earl Carter Jr., known as "Jimmy" to all, has died at the age of 100. His legacy at the FCC under Chairman Charles Ferris, who died in February of this year, is tremendous.
They are the couple behind "Denver Digital Television LLC" and have long been associated with low-power television station ownership. Now, Penny and David Drucker are agreeing to acquire a property serving the Colorado mountain communities of Vail and Avon.
There will be no "great affiliation swap" in some 25 DMAs across the U.S., thanks to a freshly signed agreement between a major broadcast TV station ownership group and The Walt Disney Company. Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr earlier this month expressed his concern that such deals were heavy-handed, in favor of ABC's parent.
It's not used to receive broadcast signals. Rather, someone has been using a tower affixed to a Brockton, Mass., residence for an unauthorized FM radio station. Now, the FCC has sent a notice to the property owner alerting them to the situation, ordering them to do something or risk a fine.
As the holidays come to a close, Progressive narrowly reclaimed the top spot on Media Monitors’ Radio Spot Ten for the week of December 23-29. The insurer beat out a very competitive field for the last full week of the year after heavily advertising through 2024.
Before Altice USA and its Optimum brand of cable TV services, there was Cablevision Systems, known across Westchester County and Long Island as a MVPD powerhouse that was also parent to the "News 12" local cable news operation. The man responsible for creating all of it is now being remembered by both broadcasters and cable TV leaders.
Red Bee Media, the broadcasting and media services company, is teaming with Ranker to bring improved data-driven content discovery products to its global network of clients, which range from pay TV operators and research firms to streaming platforms and OEMs.
Dana Healy and Ray Tiley will join the Cablecast Community Media leadership team on January 1, working closely with Tightrope Media Systems' co-founder and CEO to manage Cablecast’s business and technology functions as COO and CTO, respectively.
Telos Alliance, the Cleveland-based broadcast audio company, has confirmed that its new StudioCore and StudioEdge products are now shipping. Availability of the AoIP studio consoles within its Axia line were formally introduced at the IBC 2024 show in Amsterdam, held in September.
Do you have a New Year resolution? If not, think about your listeners. Many do, and even if they don't hold to their promises, radio is still empowered to profit from them. How? Here's some food for thought from the RBR+TVBR archives that could still help a few years later ... unless, of course, dieting and exercise are your New Year resolution.
An influential Wall Street blog has decided to shine some light on the nation's biggest audio content creation and distribution company, as it believes iHeartMedia "is possibly approaching a major achievement in its business."
From the latest AI tools for use in the studio or in the back office, and to what's coming to the vehicle's in-dash entertainment system, there's plenty that Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley is looking forward to at CES 2025. And, she's eagerly anticipating the opportunity to share her thoughts with peers at a CES "Cocktails & Conversation" event especially for Radio.
As RBR+TVBR reported before the Christmas holiday, SBS has taken over KROI-FM in Houston. Additional details on how it was finally able to complete a deal announced in April 2023 were made in an SEC filing by the Miami-based company founded and led by Raúl Alarcón Jr.
Barbara Stanley has decided to sell WKZE-FM some 3 1/2 years after the death of her husband and station founder Will Stanley. The buyer has been associated with the Hofstra University radio station for some two decades.
Brendan Carr has gained attention for a letter sent December 21 to the CEO of The Walt Disney Company that addresses one of the more understated concerns of local TV station owners across the U.S.: affiliation agreements and the dollars paid to ensure network programming remains on these over-the-air homes.
