Radio+Television Business Report

“We had warned, inferred and other people had also reported already that the first quarter was a very tough quarter,” Urban One CEO Alfred Liggins III said as the company opened its Q1 2026 earnings call on May 14. Will the second quarter see Urban One turn the corner? We'll find out on the first Tuesday in August.

Athletes don’t become great by doing just one exercise. So why should public speakers train by doing only one thing? Veteran communications and PR industry executive Rosemary Ravinal shares some unique ways a media industry C-Suite executive can excel at public speaking.

The man who heads Salem Media's digital marketing agency has revealed that he's commenced plans to retire, concluding a lengthy tenure at the radio station owner and publishing house parent focused on conservative secular political discourse and non-secular Christian talk and teaching programming.

The USL franchise bringing professional soccer to Indianapolis will see five of its matches air on the ABC affiliate owned by Circle City Broadcasting across the remainder of the season. Coverage on WRTV-6 begins on Saturday (7/18), with an evening matchup with Detroit City FC and Indy Eleven.

Are you getting bored with Netflix's viewing selections, despite its vast library of content? That's a chief concern of the streaming video Goliath as it looks ahead to forthcoming fiscal quarters, with keeping subscribers interested at all times the chief way it will continue to make a profit.

At Noon Pacific on Wednesday, July 22, a new era will begin for a venerable Classic Rock station serving the South Bay region of the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose DMA for a generation.  This will see Connoisseur Media shift the station from a 10kw Class B FM with two boosters to a pair of HD2 signals. 

Some 47 Republican Members of the House of Representatives have written to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to express their "strong support" of the Commission's ongoing review of TV parental guidelines "to ensure that children are not being indoctrinated with radical gender ideology behind their parents' backs."

At first glance, it may appear that Hoffman Media Group scored a bargain when it offered an unsolicited bid for Audacy's St. Louis radio stations, which the company controlled by Soros Fund Management eagerly accepted. According to a longtime deal valuation specialist, "it seems like a fair price" when reviewing the details of the transaction.

With its stock trading at below 4 Canadian cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Thursday's trading and a recapitalization effort designed to rid the media company of much of its debt, Corus Entertainment has moved ahead with a plan to centralize the production of its local newscasts in two of Canada's largest markets.

Skyview Networks Chairman and President/CEO Steve Jones on Wednesday announced in a company-wide meeting a series of structural adjustments that sees "a key driver of our revenue growth and portfolio expansion" take the role of Chief Operating Officer. Three others were singled out, too, as a former ESPN staffer is coming aboard.

Americans’ engagement with others is not one-dimensional. That's the focal point of a just-released Pew Research Center study from the Pew-Knight Initiative that looks across a range of behaviors: political activity, civic involvement, religious attendance and attention to news.

For MFM CEO Joe Annotti, who plans to retire come June 2027, “Becoming the Media Finance Section of FEI ensures that our members' community and programming not only continue but grow, with greater scale and support behind them.”

An asset purchase agreement offering details of the sale of Audacy's radio stations in St. Louis was submitted to the FCC for regulatory approval. How much is Hoffman Media Group paying for the properties? The answer is now known, reflecting the current realities of an industry seeking further deregulation.

The partnership will support USA Water Polo’s Try Water Polo initiative, driving participation through broadcast exposure across iHeartMedia’s radio and digital ecosystem, as well as on-site activations and event branding at National Team competitions throughout the year.

Nautel has named a Head of Quality Assurance and Support & Sustain, and it is a 29-year company veteran who previously directed Support & Sustain activities through his role as Production Engineering Manager.

The E.W. Scripps Co. will report its Q2 2026 results on the first Thursday in August but not discuss the results until Friday morning. Here's a look at what investors may see from the company that's parent to ION Network, Scripps Sports and a group of stations that returned to DirecTV last week after a five-week "blackout."

"Local first" digital advertising and radio station ownership group Townsquare Media has announced when it will release its results for the second quarter of 2026.  The answer? The financial health report is due a short time before the biggest broadcast TV station licensee in the U.S. discloses its Q2 2026 report.

The Broadcast Standards Association known as ATSC, the body responsible for the new digital broadcast signal enabling NEXTGEN, says it has completed "a major revision" of its A/85 Recommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television.

He joined Beasley Media Group in 2019 and most recently served as Vice President of IT. Now, he's been promoted to the newly created role of Head of Technology and Infrastructure.

While Commissioner Anna M. Gómez had much to say about a proposal released early Wednesday from Chairman Brendan Carr that would erase the 39% national television ownership cap, creating a case-by-case look at proposed deals. Her words will likely hold little sway, with a August 6 passage coming over Gómez's objections.