Radio+Television Business Report

NPR has a new Chief Marketing Officer, and her resume includes a role as VP of Brand and Product Marketing at Girl Scouts of the USA and a senior marketing position at PepsiCo.

The Media Rating Council on Friday received outside attention for its decision to revoke accreditation to "Big Tech" giant Meta while denying accreditation to fading social media darling Snap. What was largely overlooked was the MRC's concurrent decision to revoke accreditation for seven Nielsen Audio markets.

Nearly half of U.S. internet households are consumers of free ad-supported streaming television channels, new data released by Parks Associates show. The finding comes ahead of the eighth annual Future of Video: Business of Streaming conference in Marina del Rey, Calif., scheduled for November 18-20.

David Ellison and his leadership team at Paramount Skydance Corp. are putting the finishing touches on the inaugural quarterly earnings analysis since Skydance Media merged with Paramount Global. On Friday, it became known when the Nasdaq-trading company will unveil the fiscal report card for the entity trading as "PSKY."

A Canadian digital marketing partner to service-based businesses has introduced a new TV advertising tool it believes "democratizes" TV advertising for small and mid-sized businesses. It's the latest product designed to encourage SMBs to use video advertising in the streaming and digital delivery realm.

For Salem, its leaders remain confident that its mix of Christian-themed and secular conservative spoken word content will bring ad dollars and listeners alike.  To keep cash in the coffers, its co-founder and executive chairman is agreeing to accept stock in Salem rather than greenbacks as a form of 2025 compensation.

One of the first staff members of what started out as National Public Radio and is today simply NPR has died at the age of 87. In the words of her son Josh, Susan Stamberg was "a true humanitarian" who believed in the power of great journalism. "Her life's work was connection, through ideas and culture."

It was once Oldies as "XTRA 104" and after that was "Z104" in an era of the Spice Girls and TLC. Now, WPRS-FM has entered a new era by adopting a Tropical presentation, with reggaetón and bachata beats debuting Thursday.

As part of its ongoing “Radio Works” initiative, the RAB is presenting a live webinar on October 22 that seeks to provide radio sellers with insights into the current healthcare landscape and the factors influencing local healthcare advertisers’ marketing decisions.

The CBS News & Stations property in the Dallas-Fort Worth market branded as "CBS News Texas" on Tuesday morning brought to viewers for the first time its first local newscast that uses the virtual reality and augmented reality technology already put to the test in other markets, including San Francisco.

By-invite demos from one Woodinville, Wash.-based tech company during the NAB Show New York next week could offer a glimpse of the stateside possibilities of a technology already moving forward in Europe. It comes thanks to the latest endeavor from Vern Fotheringham.

A key ATSC 3.0 implementation firm has completed the configuration of the encoding system for New Mexico PBS powered by Ateme technology with live AI-fueled language translation for its NEXTGEN TV broadcast signal.

Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Inc. and the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation (NABLF) have shared who has been selected as the 2026 mentee for their joint MIW NABLF LAUNCH Program. It's a Broadcast Operations Manager for Townsquare Media in Texas.

With hopeful deregulation, ATSC 3.0’s continuing rollout, the AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act awaiting a Congressional vote and those ever-pesky microeconomic challenges, what has this meant for the broker community? Richard A. Foreman, the veteran media broker, shares his thoughts in this conversation, presented by dot.FM.

On June 30, 2020, iHeartMedia brought to life a 24/7 nationally distributed audio services “dedicated to providing an objective, accurate and trusted source of continual news coverage with a Black voice and perspective.” Come Nov. 1, BIN: Black Information Network will be offered to non-owned stations via syndication.

In June, a privately held owner of radio and TV stations signed off on an asset purchase agreement that would give it ownership of a heritage adult-oriented Top 40 station in Wilmington, Del., along with an AM station in the market and four other FMs across the region. That deal has just closed.

A trio of New Orleans-based federal appeals judges has affirmed a National Labor Relations Board bargaining order, solidifying its claim that the nation's largest single licensee of broadcast television stations did not engage in fair negotiations with a union organization representing employees at its Denver properties.

Just days after introducing an eye-opening end to broadcast license terms for radio stations, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released a notice with a comment window that will help it work "on concrete ways to identify, prevent and eliminate barriers to accessibility."

A new all-Sports offering on a 250-watt FM translator serving greater Cleveland arrived in early September, replacing a "throwback" hip-hop presentation focused on tracks from some 25 years ago. Now, iHeartMedia's stations in the market are getting supercharged, as well as that mini-FM.

Latino fans represent an audience that is not only growing quickly but also highly engaged across multiple channels and communities. For businesses, a new McKinsey report concludes, reaching Latino fans is an economic imperative, a smart growth strategy, and a way to build a stronger sports community.