In a widely expected move following the January 29 decision by CEO David Field to step down as President/CEO, Audacy Chief Financial Officer Rich Schmaeling has resigned "to pursue other business opportunities." The company with majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management "will not name" a new CFO in the near term.
Sinclair Inc., which has taken a lead role in the development and rollout of ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast technology and its associated datacasting services, has good news to share regarding early participation and consent results for a private exchange offer tied to its Sinclair Television Group subsidiary.
He's the Clerk of the Senate Committee on Transportation for the State of Vermont and also chairs the state's Senate Committee on Institutions. With the FCC's blessing, you can soon call Russ Ingalls a broadcast licensee, too.
Four FM radio stations and two sibling properties on the AM band are being sold by Henry Ash and his Petracom of Holbrook LLC, paperwork filed late Friday with the FCC for its regulatory approval shows. Who's the buyer?
MediaCo Holding Co., the Standard Media-controlled licensee of broadcast properties led by former Spanish Broadcasting System executive Albert Rodriguez, is exercising its option to purchase the radio and TV stations it has been operating for 10 months. Details surfaced in a FCC filing made late Friday.
"Some of you may have noted that my LinkedIn status recently changed as I've now left the Nexstar family." That's how Stacey Lynn Schulman officially shared the news on Thursday that she's no longer with the nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast television stations.
A non-commercial TV station serving the San Francisco DMA is once again in the news for a FCC faux pas. This time it will cost the licensee a $25,000 civil penalty, as it has signed a Consent Decree to resolve an "OPIF" issues/programs lists flub; incomplete responses in its Commission applications; and for a tardy license renewal filing.
When it came time for yuletide viewing of entertainment, Americans went to over-the-top streaming platforms more than ever. According to Nielsen, Christmas Day 2024 was the most-streamed day of television in the U.S. in its history of audience measurement.
As noted public speaking coach Rosemary Ravinal sees it, "Celebrated quotes condense complex ideas into a few words. They’re a form of sound bites, sticky and easy to remember." In the realm of public speaking, the best quotes remind one that an influential speaker is not born but made through practice, she writes.
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Woodward Communications in late 2024 acquired radio stations from Neuhoff Media and, one month later, Mid-West Family Broadcasting. To satisfy local ownership caps, it is agreeing to sell a Class A facility serving Bloomington-Normal, Ill. The buyer is a non-secular operator.
Here's another transaction that sees a non-commercial religious broadcast entity snap up a commercially licensed property — one that happens to be dark under Special Temporary Authority from the FCC.
Gray Media will broadcast Super Bowl LIX using High Dynamic Range (HDR) on all of the company's FOX-affiliated television stations available via the ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV digital broadcast standard.
The 2025 Medallas de Cortez award nominations are now open. The highly coveted awards will be presented at the 16th Hispanic Radio Conference, June 11-12 in Houston. Now is the opportunity for YOU to nominate the shining stars in the Hispanic radio industry.
The parent of the CTV network, OTT platform Crave, sports network TSN and a group of iHeartRadio-branded stations distributed Q4 2024 financial results on Thursday that President/CEO Mirko Bibic say represent "steady execution" as the company "balanced growth with profitability, while transforming our business and reducing costs."
Dennis Richmond, one of the nation’s first Black anchors of a major market TV newscast, joined KTVU as a clerk and rose to the rank of anchor in 1976. He became one of the Bay Area's most well-known news anchors, and is now being mourned.
The distribution of the advisory comes days after Tennessee Senator and former House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Marsha Blackburn wrote to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to rein in the practice of free artist performances by broadcast stations. As she sees it, that's a "plug-ola" action needing a hard stop.
The junior Democrat sitting as an FCC Commissioner has issued another missive against the Chairman and Republican Commissioner Nate Simington for moving forward with a probe of CBS News for alleged news distortion — a claim made by President Trump days before he won the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The 2021 WNBA Champion Chicago Sky are heading to broadcast television in the Windy City, thanks to a freshly inked deal with Weigel Broadcasting. The company's flagship property will provide live television broadcasts of more than 30 Sky games during the upcoming season. Games will be available via streaming and linear platforms.
