A "reimagined" advertising sales and integrated marketing division at Sinclair Inc.'s broadcast group and a "dynamic new brand focused on news-news content and original programming" has been launched by the company led by Chris Ripley and Rob Weisbord.
RBR+TVBR has learned that a Fresno-area owner of broadcast TV stations in such markets as Bakersfield; LaCrosse and Wausau, Wisc.; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Tex.; and Yuma, Ariz. has signed on with brokerage Hadden & Associates in a bid to find the right buyer for its assets.
Exactly two years ago, RBR+TVBR shared the news that the golf league backed by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) had signed a multi-year agreement with Nexstar Media Group that made The CW its home for 2023 and 2024. That relationship has ended.
He began his radio career in New Orleans and has experience that includes serving as COO for Apex Broadcasting, and as VP of Radio for Griffin Communications. He's been on his second tour of duty at Cox Media Group since 2019, and in one month he's transferring from San Antonio to Atlanta to take the helm of its radio stations.
The FCC has denied four complaints and petitions that she believes "seek to curtail freedom of the press and undermine the First Amendment." This includes the Media and Democracy Project petition to deny the license renewal of a Philadelphia TV station owned by FOX Television Stations.
Just one day after RBR+TVBR confirmed that Imagicomm Communications has decided to sell all of the broadcast television stations it acquired as part of FCC-required CMG divestments in August 2022, Kalil & Co. has revealed that four stations in two DMAs have already found a buyer.
He was a backup catcher between 1962 and 1967, playing for four teams before shifting to the broadcast booth and a career in entertainment that included a role on the 1980s sitcom "Mr. Belvedere" and as "Harry Doyle" in the feature film "Major League." Now, baseball fans everywhere are paying tribute to Bob Uecker, who has died.
Comscore Content Measurement (CCM), a new cross-platform product offering, has been brought to market by the data analytics and consumer consumption firm seeking to build a greater presence in the broadcast TV space.
The nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast TV stations, the NewsNation MVPD-distributed cable TV network and WGN Radio has decided when it will report its fourth quarter 2024 financial results. What can investors and analysts expect to hear from Nexstar Media Group?
As previously reported, Dan Finn will officially retire from Beasley Media Group at the end of March 2025 after a distinguished career in broadcasting.
We now know who is succeeding him.
WARC says global ad spend has more than doubled over the last decade, growing 2.8x faster than global economic output since 2014, with more media channels available to marketers than ever before. But, should that excite linear media leaders who continue to experience core ad weakness with few growth prospects?
The conservative-leaning cable and digital news and political commentary network founded by Chris Ruddy is extending a preferred stock private offering a second time, due to high demand from investors.
Today was the final Open Meeting as Chairwoman of the FCC for Jessica Rosenworcel, who took the opportunity to share at length what her experience brought to her, and to America.
The Classical radio brand serving Portland, Ore., is the beneficiary of a Grants for Arts Projects cash award from the National Endowment of the Arts. The grant will support All Classical Radio's Access Recording Project, set to launch later this year.
He was known as the former owner of an AM today within the iHeartMedia family and an FM sibling in Little Rock that is today Signal Media of Arkansas' "103.7 The Buzz." From 1974-1975, he was President of the Arkansas Broadcasters Association. Now, many across the state are paying tribute to Ted L. Snider, who died Tuesday at the age of 96.
He was a retired state senator in Mississippi and also the owner of a Class D AM radio station with an all-important FM translator serving the city of Meridian. On July 1, 2024, N. Bradford Carter Jr. died at the age of 87. Now, his stations are being transferred to a trustee.
An AM/FM combo in an Arkansas city, along with two FM translators, are being transferred by a trust linked to King-Sullivan Radio to an entity that will give Sid R. King and his family full ownership of the properties.
In December 2024, Dan Abrams announced that he would conclude his three-year run as the host of Dan Abrams Live on Nexstar Media Group's NewsNation MVPD-distributed news and political commentary channel. As Abrams prepares to take a new role at NewsNation, a program schedule tweak has been revealed.
The Baltimore-headquartered broadcast TV station owner successfully renewed a new agreement with NBCUniversal that keeps station affiliation agreements in place for Sinclair's 21 stations carrying NBC network programming.
The South Carolina-headquartered company led by CEO Dale Ardizzone that is the parent of the MVPD-distributed "INSP" channel, plans to sell its broadcast TV stations in the coming months. A General Manager at one of the properties tells RBR+TVBR that all were informed by Imagicomm of their plans.
