Radio+Television Business Report

Two for the price of one. That's what subscribers to SiriusXM's app-exclusive "All Access" plan will enjoy should they also wish to gain access to content created and distributed by FOX News.

As AEI nonresident Senior Fellow Clay Calvert writes, "the predictability" that exists at the FCC under Chairman Brendan Carr is that most Democrats (and some Republicans) will view many of its prominent investigations as blatantly partisan efforts to aid President Trump and attack press freedom. That hurts the Commission.

Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend for its shareholders. The announcement precedes the May 8 distribution and subsequent discussion of the company's first quarter financial performance.

OptiLoad broke ground at the 2024 NAB Show with new design innovations to better detect and prevent transmission system failures in liquid-cooled UHF & VHF TV systems. "Those innovations deliver a convergence of passive RF equipment, electronics and sensing that Dielectric as now adapted for radio and less rigorous UHF environments," Dielectric said.

Facilitating faster deployment and management of distributed production workflows, Solid State Logic exited the 2025 NAB Show with sharing an update that adds native NDI to its System T Cloud platform. The company also introduced two premium hardware control tiles to its flexible production ecosystem.

The certification recognizes the organization's Information Security Management System in compliance with ISO/IEC 27001-2022 and applies to its provision of broadcasting services, IT infrastructure and software development services covering Skandha's infrastructure and cloud instances, customer data, and business processes, including IT & media operations.

Super Hi-Fi is celebrating its "first major evolution" of the company's Rosetta platform with the launches of two product enhancements that assist in unifying radio’s traditional and digital ecosystems. As Super Hi-Fi sees it, this gives broadcasters greater power in  streamlining operations, simplifying content delivery, and elevating the listener experience.

LTN counts TelevisaUnivision among its clients, and LTN Chief Revenue Officer Chris Myers says the company's new offerings "reflect a reinvigorated focus on revenue enablement for sports and media companies of all sizes.”

Users can now define study parameters more efficiently, invite collaborators with customizable permissions, and leave comments directly in the study setup process to reduce friction and align on objectives, Veritonic says.

The Media Bureau is now seeking comment on a Petition for Rulemaking filed by HC2 Broadcasting asking the FCC to allow low-power television (LPTV) stations — on a voluntary basis — to use the 5G Broadcast transmission standard as an alternative to the currently-authorized ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 standards.

A trio of licensees of broadcast television stations serving Southern California have each entered into consent decrees with the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division, led by Barbara Kreisman, that will see civil penalties of significance result in hefty checks written out as payable to the U.S. Treasury.

A Class A FM radio station licensed to cover the U.S. Virgin Islands' territories of St. John and St. Thomas is being sold by Gordon Ackley, a longtime operator of broadcast properties in this English-speaking Caribbean commonwealth under FCC jurisdiction.

“Verizon is an incredibly important and valued partner to the radio industry,” said RAB President/CEO Mike Hulvey, who also serves as chair of the Radio Creative Fund. “The brand’s messaging is always culturally relevant."

Financing for the transaction is being provided by Brigade Capital Management. What's the story with that operation? It's a safe bet it is not as controversial as the entity that holds majority interest in radio industry peer Audacy Inc.

For weeks, media brokers and industry observers have been awaiting news on a transaction that many believed would be announced one month ago, as radio business leaders gathered in Las Vegas for the 2025 NAB Show. Now, rumors have become reality: Jeff Warshaw has secured the financing needed to move forward with his Connoisseur Media's acquisition of Alpha Media.

More changes have come to the C-Suite at Philadelphia-based Audacy Inc., the audio content creation and distribution company founded as Entercom by Joseph Field and today controlled by Soros Fund Management. This sees the arrival of a new Chief Information Officer.

TV ad sales and tech company Ampersand is welcoming a new Chief Revenue Officer, and it is someone who was most recently EVP and Head of National Sales for the broadcast television station ownership group that is parent to more over-the-air properties than any of its peers and is founded by Perry Sook.

He has been part of the Scripps D.C. sales team for the last six years, serving as a senior manager of business operations, Director of National Sales Operations and Senior Director of National Sales Operations. Now he's being promoted to VP of Political and "Pay for Performance" at The E.W. Scripps Co.

The company with majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management is saying goodbye to its five-year Chief Technology Officer, one of its more visible top-tier leaders in recent years. It's the latest move in a wholesale reshaping of Audacy's executive suite since the departures of David Field and Rich Schmaeling.

The latest Spot Ten Cable report is out courtesy of iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors, and three big brands showed their might for the week ending May 4. By play count, the spot leader is a big home improvement retailer.