He began his career at WPVI‑TV in Philadelphia in 1993 as a news writer for Action News. Now, he is being promoted to the role of President/General Manager of the ABC Owned Stations property among eight facing an early license renewal order handed to The Walt Disney Co. by the FCC this week.
With Kalil & Co. serving as the exclusive broker in the transaction, Curtis Media Group is moving ahead with the acquisition of four FMs, one AM and two FM translators in the Wilmington-New Bern-Jacksonville, N.C. market. The deal sees the seller now focusing on their multimedia assets in the Triangle region.
Brendan Carr made it clear that the FCC's early license renewal order handed to The Walt Disney Co. regarding its eight ABC Owned Stations properties is tied to potential DEI-linked discrimination and dates to a Commission look that began in 2025. Sen. Ted Cruz feels otherwise, broadening a gulf between Congress and the Commission.
The FCC on Thursday unanimously voted to amend its "Audible Crawl Rule" and eliminates what the NAB, TV stations owners and the FCC all agree is "a technically unworkable provision" while ensuring that people who are visually impaired continue receiving the critical emergency information they need.
Audio advertising intelligence and measurement firm Magellan AI has expanded its relationship with the nation's largest audio creation and distribution company, giving it access to iHeartMedia data that maps listeners exposed to broadcast radio to "measurable outcomes."
A Class A FM serving a portion of Florida's Panhandle region in mid-February debuted a Spanish-language format under a LMA agreement forged between the station's owner and JVC Media, led by John Caracciolo. Now, JVC is converting that lease deal into an outright purchase, adding to stations in the market.
The Republican-led House Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee has declined to provide funding for local public broadcasting station infrastructure in its fiscal year 2027 appropriations bill. That led the head of America's Public Television Stations to express disappointment.
An April 17 preliminary injunction from Sacramento-based Chief U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley prevents Nexstar Media Group from fully integrating the assets its acquired in its rule-busting merger with TEGNA. How that impacted a case against the FCC in the D.C. federal court of appeals became known Wednesday.
If there ever was a time when the NAB could use an inside track at the FCC, particularly in the Media Bureau, Curtis LeGeyt just hit a jackpot potentially bigger than any he could have gotten last week while in Las Vegas for his association's annual convention and expo.
His Lowcountry 34 Media has emerged as a major operator of low-power TV stations and even had a 2026 NAB Show floor booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Jeff Winemiller sees money in LPTVs, and that explains why he's invested in a property serving Pittsburgh.
NAB head Curtis LeGeyt has chimed in on the FCC's call for The Walt Disney Co. to participate in an early license renewal proceeding, giving the owner of ABC Owned Stations until May 28 to comply with a Order issued on delegated authority by the Video Division Chief — two administrative levels below the full Commission.
In September 2024, Evanov Communications successfully found a buyer for a 2.5kw Class A FM serving the Ottawa-Gatineau market, stopping its previously announced death sentence. Now, the buyer of that facility is purchasing another Class A FM from Evanov — a property serving Anglophones in the Montréal market.
The debt restructuring plan Beasley Media Group announced in March is complete, with the company exchanging nearly all of its Second Lien Notes for new paper due 2027, which Beasley expects to clear the going concern opinion from auditors with its 2025 earnings.
The exclusive streaming home for all CW Sports live events offered by The CW Network will now be the ESPN app, thanks to an agreement announced on April 29 by the unit of the Walt Disney Co. and the broadcast network controlled by majority owner Nexstar Media Group.
The full Commission has stood by the dismissals of applications for low-power FM radio station construction permits filed in the FCC's 2023 LPFM filing window. That negates a plan to put a facility in Athens, Ala., and another in the Alabama city of Selma.
She's an actress known for such 1990s classics as Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral. On May 19, she will be bestowed with the Gracies Icon Award at a Beverly Hills ceremony from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation.
The newly highly-exposed successor to Barbara Kreisman has punted objections from two MVPD advocacy groups, paving the way for The E.W. Scripps Co. and Gray Media to complete an asset swap first announced in July 2026.
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It simply awaits FCC approval of its restructuring plan, at which time it will unwind its debtor-in-possession status. Until that happens, Cumulus Media's executive leadership team, led by CEO Mary Berner and CFO Frank López-Balboa, remains focused on leveraging the company's "core strengths" to drive long-term value creation.
In the summer of 2024, the Federal Communications Commission granted an assignment of authorization application requesting its approval of a deal that brought two FM radio stations along the Oregon coast back to life. Xana Oregon is now selling that Class C1 FM licensed to Lincoln City.
