Since December 2019, he has served as VP/GM of one of the newest members of The E.W. Scripps Co. family. Starting Monday (3/7), he’ll become VP/GM of the company’s NBC affiliate and its “FLORIDA 24 Network” over-the-air station serving the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach County, Florida.
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It’s been a year since the company’s stock went ex-dividend. The 1-year target price set by analysts was last seen on November 5.
That said, the worst may be behind Audacy Corp. as its stock continues its climb from pandemic-era depths that seemingly continued up to February 22.
Since then, AUD shares are up by more than one dollar per share.
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Xandr has unveiled a new end-to-end technology platform solution for political advertising including its Invest DSP, Monetize SSP and Xandr Curate platforms in all 50 states.
Xandr’s “holistic approach for political” is comprised of multiple tools for advertisers and publishers to buy and sell political advertising programmatically.
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Curtis LeGeyt, CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters, will provide the opening keynote on June 22 at the Hispanic Radio Conference.
The conference will be presented June 22-23 in Miami at the Intercontinental at Doral.
The theme of the NAB chief’s remarks will be “Promoting a Strong and Diverse Radio Industry Through Public Policy and Industry Engagement.”
SAVE BIG WITH EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION NOW!According to LeGeyt, “Radio’s ability to reach and directly serve diverse audiences is a cornerstone of the business. The Hispanic Radio Conference is an important forum for an ever influential and dynamic segment of the industry to convene, assess challenges, and discover opportunities in today’s complex and competitive media environment. NAB is a proud supporter, and I look forward to participating in this year’s event.”
Deborah Parenti, President/Publisher of Radio Ink and the Radio + Television Business Report, said, “We are especially excited and honored to have Curtis LeGeyt open the Hispanic Radio Conference. It will be a tremendous opportunity for Hispanic broadcasters to share their concerns and challenges with him as well as to hear his vision for the future of the industry.”
More agenda details are available HERE. Register now and save $200. The Hispanic Radio Conference is proudly supported by: PLATINUM SPONSOR Bronze Sponsor Medallas de Cortez Sponsor Corporate Sponsors Participating Sponsors Media PartnersHe serves as President of Networks for Nexstar Media Group, and in addition to his role with NewsNation, the cable TV news channel, he also has a hand in ensuring that the company’s lone radio station — heritage spoken-word WGN Radio at 720 on the AM dial across the Midwest — remains a success.
That it has, based on the latest ratings results from Nielsen Audio. Sean returns to the InFOCUS Podcast to share more about WGN’s resiliency and rebirth in Chicago. He talks about the No. 1 performance of John Williams in middays and Bob Sirott in mornings, and the ongoing growth in afternoons; letting nighttime legend John Landecker be himself; and thanking Rollye James for turning a temporary gig into a long-term late-night program.
Just past 10am Eastern on Thursday, Members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee stopped their activities, stood in unison, and applauded at length.
It wasn’t for any of the 10 presidential nominees up for a Committee vote, including Gigi B. Sohn, but rather for Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N. Mex.). The Senator is recovering swiftly from suffering a stroke, which delayed the vote on Sohn.
Sohn’s nomination remained contentious right up to the vote, and Luján’s vote proved to be the decisive one for the nominee, with an expected tie the outcome.
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One month ago, Connected TV advertising and measurement platform Innovid struck a deal to acquire television measurement company.
The acquisition has just closed, and creates what Innovid calls “an end-to-end, independent TV measurement alternative that brings together streaming and linear television.” As such, founder and CEO Calum Smeaton is transitioning to a strategy role in support of the integration between the company — TVSquared — and Innovid.
For TVSquared President Jo Kinsella, leading the measurement business at Innovid is Job One.
So is making Innovid’s “Nielsen’s newest competitor.”
“We believe the combination of independent global ad serving and cross-platform measurement sits at the heart of solving TV measurement’s biggest challenges,” said Zvika Netter, CEO and Co-founder at Innovid. “We’ve spent over a decade building foundational ad delivery and personalization technology to power TV across channels and devices. Now, together with TVSquared by Innovid, we provide advertisers a complete view of the total TV and digital universe through a scalable, currency-grade measurement platform.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Innovid acquired TVSquared for $100 million in cash and 12.5 million in Innovid stock. Shares were at $3.85 as of 10am Eastern on March 3.
The broadcasting company controlled by Apollo Global Management with radio stations in four Florida markets, in addition to three other cities, and a collection of television stations that even includes the NBC and CBS affiliates in Eureka-Arcata, Calif., has inked a multi-year renewal with the nation’s dominant audience measurement and consumer data analytics provider.
The new deal allows Cox Media Group‘s local TV stations in 10 full service radio and TV markets to continue to use various Nielsen measurement services.
The new agreement also includes CoxReps, which provides television sales representation of broadcasters with a wide network of advertising agencies.
Included in the agreement is Nielsen Local Media Impact, which has been licensed by CMG radio stations in Atlanta, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Tampa-St. Petersburg.
CMG radio stations will also have access to the National Regional Database (NRD), a customizable tool of radio listening information for every market that Nielsen Audio surveys.
Furthermore, the new Nielsen pact renews access of CMG radio and TV stations and CoxReps to Nielsen Scarborough, which provides local market research and measures 2,000 market categories. The stations will continue to have access to Scarborough MARS Healthcare Module.
CMG television stations also subscribe to Arianna, which delivers local market overnight TV audience estimates providing analytics on program performance as well as trending programs and time periods, and Nielsen’s Local TV View (NLTV).
There’s more.
CMG will also use Grabix, a web-based application that combines Nielsen’s minute-by-minute television audience metrics to actual audio and video content.
Lastly, Cox also subscribes to Nielsen Radio County Coverage data, which provides local insights by breaking out of the standard Nielsen Radio metro boundaries for a broader understanding of listeners.
While CMG has a presence in some of the nation’s smallest markets thanks to Apollo’s acquisition of Brian Brady’s Northwest Broadcasting and subsequent combination of the TV station assets, it owns and operates TV stations in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Dayton, Jacksonville, Memphis, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Seattle-Tacoma, Tulsa, Spokane, Syracuse and Yakima-Tri Cities, in addition to the small markets of Eureka-Arcata and Yuma, Ariz.; Alexandria, La.; Medford, Ore.; Binghamton, N.Y.; Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Greenville-Greenwood, Miss.
“We had another very strong quarter, with revenue exceeding expectations,” Urban One President/CEO Alfred Liggins III said in prepared comments as the company superserving Black consumers released its Q4 results.
On the surface, it appears Urban One didn’t do well, as the results showed net income down while net revenue rose. But, political dollars in Q4 2020 proved to be big for Urban One, too.
So, how did Urban One do in Q4 2021 in comparison to two years earlier?
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It uses digital Channel 30 and enjoys a PSIP of Channel 7. For the past year, it has been owned by Craig Ruark, who acquired the property from a Christian-focused broadcasting entity.
Now, Ruark is spinning the LPTV station serving Southern Nevada.
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The next batch of Q4 2021 earnings results from key media companies arrive on Thursday, with a morning dispatch of Urban One‘s fiscal health report and post-Closing Bell distribution of the Q4 financial results from both Salem Media Group and Entravision Communications.
For Hispanic consumer-centric Entravision, the results could further propel its shares, which enjoyed a strong 6.6% gain to $6.62 on Wednesday.
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The CEO of AMC Entertainment, the owner of cinemas across the U.S., posted its strongest quarterly results in two years. And, its CEO, Adam Aron, can thank Spider Man for besting analyst estimates.
Aron can also perhaps be thanked for propelling Paramount Global‘s shares on Wednesday. Why? The owner of CBS News and Stations could be poised for boffo box office results from its Paramount Pictures arm, after all.
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While the media lifestyles of Gen Z, a generation that has never known a world without internet, are dominated by social media and music streaming, this diverse audience of streamers view long-form TV content with as much frequency as short-form video content.
That’s the big reveal from a new “State of Gen Z 2021” from Horowitz Research.
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It was once a FOX O&O serving Alabama’s biggest market. Today, it is a Gray Television-owned property, thanks to its merger with Raycom.
Now, this TV property, which in July celebrates its 73rd birthday, is getting a low-power sibling in another key city within the big Birmingham DMA — marking another move by Gray to ensure over-the-air reception, market-wide, of its broadcast TV properties.
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The individual who tops RBR+TVBR‘s first-ever ranking of Broadcast Media’s Top Tech Leaders, announced in the Winter 2022 RBR+TVBR Special Report distributed this week at MWC 2022 Barcelona and in January to subscribers, has just been promoted to President to Technology at Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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Fresh off of her excursion to Barcelona to deliver a short keynote address at the GSMA’s MWC 2022, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has made an addition to the Office of Legislative Affairs.
She’s welcoming a Director to the office.
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For nearly three years, she has served as VP/GM of ABC Audio.
Starting today, she’ll serve in the newly created New York-based position of Executive Editor and Senior VP of ABC News.
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The Out-of-Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has released an analysis of the cost efficiency of any “major” advertising media — including broadcast and cable TV, traditional radio and the hot arena of Podcasting.
What’s the CPM assessment for these media compared to others?
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“Real-time TV measurement” company iSpot has announced it is expanding its cross-platform viewing verification capabilities by agreeing to purchase a TV-viewing data analytics company known for its measurement of consumer viewing in public locations across the U.S.
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Since 2015, he has held the role of Market Manager for Cumulus Media‘s radio stations serving Little Rock.
As of today, he is now Regional VP of all of the company’s Arkansas properties.
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