Radio+Television Business Report

The WNBA champions during the 2022 and 2023 seasons will now see their games air locally on the broadcast television station branded as "Vegas 34," owned by The E.W. Scripps Co. 

The owner of a Class B AM radio station with 3,200 watts during daylight hours and 1,300 watts at night serving a bucolic area near Trenton, N.J., has been given notice that it must pay its delinquent FCC regulatory fees or risk a license revocation.

Gwathmey, an individual who created Texas Public Radio with the merger of San Antonio Community Radio and the Classical Broadcasting Society of San Antonio, has died of natural causes.

The highly coveted awards will be presented at the 16th Hispanic Radio Conference, June 11-12 in Houston. Now is the opportunity for YOU to nominate the shining stars in the Hispanic radio industry. Nominations across seven categories are now open to anyone involved in the success of Hispanic radio.

Just in time for NCAA March Madness — and talk at the upcoming 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas — CBS News & Stations is readying the formal unveiling of a state-of-the-art augmented reality/virtual reality studio at its WFOR-4 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale.

It's here! The Radio + Television Business Report's InFOCUS Video Podcast features an interview between Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson and Johnny Green Jr., the President and Regional General Manager for CBS overseeing both Boston and New York. Click here to learn more about how you can view the conversation now.

Starting Monday, Cox Media Group's Jacksonville television operations will have a new Director of Sales. But, he's no stranger to the stations CMG runs on Florida's First Coast.

He was the head of the FCC that first erased Title II broadband classification, resulting in death threats for the end of "Net Neutrality." Starting April 1, he'll be the President/CEO of the wireless industry association.

The Council is designed, in the FCC's words, to "leverage the full range of the Commission’s regulatory, investigatory, and enforcement authorities to promote America’s national security and counter foreign adversaries, particularly the threats posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

The Museum of Broadcast Communications announces that the RADIO HALL OF FAME Nominating Committee is accepting suggestions for 2025 nominees, but only through March 31, 2025, at 11:59pm Pacific.

The broadcast media industry's key leaders have been asking for it. Soon, they'll likely get it. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday announced that the agency has launched what he calls "a massive, new deregulatory initiative."

The E.W. Scripps Co. President/CEO Adam Symson opened his company's Q4 2024 earnings report with a strong call of support for the Chairman of the FCC, pleading the regulatory agency to loosen local ownership restrictions. He also told an analyst that Scripps will consider swaps or sales, should deregulation come.

"Good things come to those who wait," so the saying goes. That's indeed the case when it comes to investors in The E.W. Scripps Co. With a significant round of debt refinancing announced Tuesday, Scripps cleared a big hurdle as it prepared to discuss its Q4 2024 results this morning after a short postponement of their release.

It was not the final three months of 2024 that a company would want to share with investors. Yet, shares were up by nearly 6 percent in early trading on Tuesday, as Saga Communications released its Q4 report — one that saw diminished results from the prior year.

The FCC has moved ahead with two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking that will effectively unwind an effort from Gray Media to shift a pair of its television stations from VHF signals to UHF channels, as the company has run out of time to do it.

An assignment of authorization filing made with the FCC in mid-October 2024 has been dismissed, putting an end to a deal that would have seen the sale of a low-power television station serving San Angelo, Tex.

Workflow automation and ad management company Frequency, which serves the audio content creation and distribution industry, is welcoming a veteran of the advertising technology space as its new Chief Commercial Officer.

Double Helix Corporation, owner of troubled Class C1 KDHX-FM in St. Louis, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The reasons listed are financial pressures and pending litigation. It's a move that comes after months of turmoil at the station, including volunteer dismissals and continued supporter backlash.

Privately held broadcasting company Morgan Murphy Media has reached an agreement with rightsholder Good Karma Brands that will allow two of its stations in Wisconsin to broadcast 13 Milwaukee Brewers games. In addition to the regular season schedule, the stations will broadcast three spring training games.

Atlanta-headquartered Gray Media is celebrating the first new combination of top-four rated television stations this decade, as the Carr Commission has granted a waiver of its local ownership rules and will allow the company to complete its purchase of the FOX affiliate serving the Rochester, Minn., market.