"Florida’s local advertising landscape is flourishing this year," boasts BIA's Christina Hurley, who led a presentation at the FAB annual convention illustrating a healthy increase in total local advertising revenue in 2025. There's just one problem: This is being driven by media other than those who are association members.
The newest FCC Commissioner has just completed her first Open Meeting. Immediately following the short by Commission standards gathering, Olivia Trusty shared who will serve as her Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel while welcoming three others to her office.
WPLG-10 will drop its decades-long ABC affiliation on August 4. This will see Sunbeam Television launch "ABC Miami" on the DT2 signal associated with FOX affiliate WSVN-7. Thanks to a new LMA agreement, "ABC Miami" will now be seen in the market on a DT1 signal associated with a low-power TV facility.
The nation's largest broadcast television station ownership group, which also owns the NewsNation cable TV enterprise and WGN Radio, has announced when it will release and discuss its second quarter financial results for 2025.
As Congress moves to act before its July 4 recess, former AEI visiting scholar and broadband economics expert Roslyn Layton discusses a revised spectrum bill in the U.S. Senate. In this think piece, Layton highlights why the proposal matters now—for broadband competitiveness and the restoration of FCC auction authority.
Want access to Hulu exclusives and happen to be a Charter Communications Spectrum customer? There's a tier offered by the MVPD giant that will now bring that to consumers at no additional cost, starting later this summer.
"Crafting Sound, Creating Experiences." That's the promise of a Coastal North Carolina limited liability company that has agreed to purchase a presently silent 50,000-watt FM reaching Nags Head and Kitty Hawk formerly known as "99.1 The Sound."
The FCC's newly minted third Commissioner and all-important quorum maker, Olivia Trusty, participated on Thursday in her first monthly Open Meeting. Among the agenda items is a Report and Order designed to remove "obsolete and unworkable" cable television rate rules.
In the world of carriage fee agreements and rebroadcast rights accords, an MVPD typically negotiates with a cable and/or over-the-air TV station owner on a blanket agreement. For direct broadcast satellite service provider DirecTV, that has meant an “all-or-nothing” scenario in which it must take every channel as part of a deal or none at all […]
This year’s edition goes beyond industry data with the introduction of a new and accessible format that ditches one large report. "Readers can now explore individual, focused sections on the most critical topics impacting media sales today," CSS says.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA) to support its Editor Corps program, which provides short-term editing help to local public media newsrooms across the country.
A Sinclair-owned MVPD-distributed offering and its streaming-only sibling will continue to serve as the exclusive homes of WTA tennis in the U.S. for the next several years, thanks to a new media rights deal announced on Wednesday.
In May 2024, a digital multicast specialist is launching a new subchannel network dedicated to classic cartoons in a partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, this vintage animation offering is being added to the DirecTV lineup, thanks to a multi-year carriage agreement.
It was a partnership that started in 2023 with a Local Marketing Agreement on a single station in Oregon. Now, Hope Media Group and Worship 24/7 are set to formally unite in a merger of the two Christian radio networks, in a significant global expansion for HMG.
For a generation of broadcast radio enthusiasts, it served as the definitive online hub of classic AM and FM programs, both scoped and as-aired with full songs and commercials. Now, ReelRadio is back, and it is thanks to the North Carolina Broadcast History Museum and Beasley Media Group.
"Community, connection, and trusted journalism" is a mantra that perhaps NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt may offer when advocating for local radio and TV. Soon, those qualitative features will serve as the fuel for a "one-of-a-kind coffee shop experience," courtesy of Graham Media Group's flagship broadcast TV station.
It is being described as "a strategic move" that further strengthens the nationally recognized law firm's Space & Satellite capabilities, Pillsbury is welcoming a new partner within the Communications practice of its National Capitol office.
At a community event in the Bluegrass State, Anna M. Gómez met with community leaders and the public to discuss what she believes are "recent attacks by the Administration" and the FCC itself against the First Amendment "and their ongoing efforts to censor and control speech."
It’s a group of radio stations that have served Bay County, Fla., and the one-time Spring Break hub of Panama City Beach for decades. Pending FCC regulatory approval, these four FMs will become the newest properties associated with a media company led and founded by President/CEO John Caracciolo. In an announcement distributed on Wednesday morning ahead […]
The future ownership of a Class A FM radio station serving a group of small communities due west of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will be left up to the executrix of the estate of its owner, who passed away in mid-May at the age of 82.
