Conrad Trautmann, who has been ranked as one of Broadcast Media's Top Tech Leaders by RBR+TVBR, is retiring at the end of March, concluding a 25-year run at Cumulus Media. The company announced late Tuesday who will be succeeding him, effective April 1.
Since 2020, she has served as Special Projects Executive Producer for the FOX Television Stations-owned station serving the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota-Lakeland-Sebring DMA. Now, she's VP and News Director for "FOX 13."
Ten Crystal Radio Award winners will be chosen from the finalists by a panel of judges representing the broadcast industry, community service organizations and public relations firms. The awards will be presented during a special ceremony at the NAB State Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 4.
Pay up or sign off the air. That's the message being sent by the FCC to the owner of two Lone Star State FMs for failing to pay their annual regulatory fees to the agency.
That's the somewhat skewed look at video consumption presented in a new report from Statista, which also shows robust consumption of digital videos during the same 12-month period.
Just shy of half of all domestic internet households are comprised of "cord-cutters," while some 12% of these households have never had cable television. That's the latest finding from Parks Associates, and its Video Services Consumer Insights Dashboard.
With operating momentum and "strong financial performance" fueling Fox, CEO Lachlan Murdoch has much to cheer about. "We are firing on all cylinders," he noted during the Fox Corporation fiscal Q2 2025 earnings call on Wednesday. There could be more significant revenue growth coming soon.
Gray Media has renewed its daily, 30-minute news magazine InvestigateTV+ for a third season. The company also renewed the weekend edition of the show for 2025-2026, its fifth season.
Fox Corporation shares were on the rise across Tuesday morning, as investors responded positively to a fiscal Q2 2025 report card that saw the owner of FOX Television Stations enjoy earnings per share that surpassed Street expectations by a whopping 50.2%.
A 1kw Class C AM licensed to Martin County, Fla.'s main city and a companion Class D AM with 5kw during daylight hours but just 63 watts at night over neighboring St. Lucie County are being sold. Who's the buyer of these venerable Treasure Coast broadcast facilities?
New data from Nielsen and Edison Research’s The Record highlights the state of audio in the U.S. media landscape, with nearly 20% of daily media consumption dedicated to audio content in the fourth quarter of 2024. And, Radio is at the forefront.
The offering brings users an improved UX experience and low I/O latency, key elements for use in live broadcasts, concerts, studio production, outside broadcast trucks (OB), and backup/disaster recovery. And, the new expansion card brings full support for SMPTE ST 2110 AV Networks to the TASCAM Sonicview console.
RTW, the Koln-based audio technology company used by broadcast, production, and post-production professionals, has rolled out a dialog-gated loudness measurement technology for TouchControl 5.
A San Antonio-based maker of fully integrated radio automation, software playout, and music scheduler has launched a product replete with a diverse library of voices that also offers custom voice cloning. It's a radio tool for the AI generation, courtesy of nextKast.
Orange Slovakia has chosen Appear’s X Platform to manage delivery of the VAR feeds from the stadium to the VOR, and back to the venue for the on-pitch referee to call the decision. Appear’s local partner, Sunteq, provides System Integration services for Orange Slovakia.
The "local first" digital media and marketing company with its roots in broadcast radio has promoted from within to fill three newly created positions — roles that allow the NYSE-traded company "to tackle the numerous opportunities ahead."
He takes the new role on February 24, and Shecterle will oversee all of CMG’s radio stations in the market, including "99.5 KISS FM," KONO-AM & FM, "106.7 FM The Eagle," Country "Y100 FM," and KKYX-AM 680, which uses an FM translator at 104.9 MHz.
On Friday, RBR+TVBR shared details on the sale of a low-powered TV station serving Albany, N.Y., by Dan Viles. It turns out the buyer of that property is also buying a pair of LPTV properties just to the south in the Catskills, and the seller is low power TV entrepreneur and 5G TV advocate "SuperFrank" Copsidas.
John Yob and his Mitten News LLC has agreed to donate a Class D AM radio station with 10kw during daylight hours but a mere 10 watts at night to a religious broadcasting institution.
The Fish has been swallowed by Educational Media Foundation. Now, Salem Media Group has transferred ownership of a pair of Christian-themed music networks to a content provider now offering a trio of non-secular formats to radio stations across the U.S.
