Radio+Television Business Report

Rogers Communications experienced a 10% revenue jump for its media division in Q4 2024, thanks to higher sports- and entertainment-related revenue within the segment. But that was lower than what was originally anticipated. Worse yet, the 2025 is somewhat glum. Investors weren't fazed as Thursday's trading on the TSX neared its conclusion.

The Strategic Communications and Policy Advisor for former Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel will now hold the same role for the junior Democratic Commissioner on the new FCC, under the leadership of Brendan Carr.

For some 40 years or so, Rob Weaver has been the owner and operator of "J-Country 101" and AM sibling "PG14" in the small town of Portland, Ind. That's about to change, as a trio of asset sale agreements have been signed and submitted with the FCC for regulatory approval.

The Bott family, which has long-operated noncommercial religious radio stations across the U.S., is adding to its stable by agreeing to acquire an FM in Cheyenne, Wyo., from a prolific operator of low-power radio properties.

A Class B AM with an FM translator offering Country music to Calhoun, Ga., is about to change ownership.  Pending FCC approval, it will put Gordon County Radio in control of the operation.

The Radio Hall of Fame nominating committee will begin accepting suggestions for this year's award nominees beginning on February 1, with a two-month window open for those who wish to have their say on possible 2025 honorees.

Latino Media Network (LMN), the broadcast licensee formed through the sale of former TelevisaUnivision radio stations to an entity with majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management, is regionalizing its operations into three "strategic market groupings."

The 2023 Major League Baseball World Champions shared Tuesday that they've created the Rangers Sports Network (RSN), which will produce and distribute the Texas Rangers’ games and other select content. The nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations will air at least a dozen of those games on free-to-air TV across the team's territory.

The 119th Congress is in session, and that means any bill that languished in the last legislative period is dead — short of it being brought back to life. For the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, its two main champions in the U.S. Senate have brought the proposed legislation back from the scrap heap.

The nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations, the NewsNation cable TV network and WGN Radio in Chicago is hiking its quarterly cash dividend by 10%, ahead of its Q4 and year-end 2024 results reveal.

Black audiences spend 32 hours on apps and websites on their smartphones and tablets —two hours more than the total U.S. population. Meanwhile, Radio averages the same weekly reach with Black adults as connected TV, with each media reaching 27.4 million Black adults in an average week.

He joined the company today known as Salem Media Group with the launch of KPRZ-AM in San Diego at the end of 1984 before taking leadership of a property it assumed control of in Washington, D.C., on a snowy February morning in 1992. David Ruleman is now being remembered, as the veteran executive has died.

Premion, the TEGNA-owned Connected TV/OTT advertising platform designed for regional and local advertisers, is partnering with GDB Brazil to bring its Octillion Demand Side Platform to the largest Portuguese-language market in the world.

SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital audio radio satellite built by Maxar Space Systems for SiriusXM and is built on the Maxar 1300 platform. The SXM-9 is more than 27 feet tall and over 100 feet long with its solar arrays deployed, and weighed almost 6,400 kg at launch.

A Class C3 Country station serving a string of communities to the north of Houston will stay in the family, pending FCC approval of a plan that transfers control of "KStar Country" from its owner to his daughter.

The TV broadcasting company led by Patricia and Brian Lane has struck a deal to purchase stations in two small West Coast markets from Imagicomm. How much Marquee Broadcasting is paying Imagicomm for the stations once owned by Brian Brady's Northwest Broadcasting will remain a public mystery.

Advertising-focused media measurement company VideoAmp has appointed the former Senior Vice President of Ad Sales Strategy for FOX Sports to serve as its new Head of Sports Strategy — a position that sees VideoAmp seek to spur growth in its sports practice and "enhance the company’s measurement efforts within the industry."

Audacy Board of Directors member Kelli Turner will serve as interim President/CEO, effective immediately. The company, which is now privately held and has majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management, made the announcement shortly after 9am Eastern. Field will take a new position as Special Advisor to the CEO and the Board.

It was an exciting end to the 2024 college football season, and CP Communications was on hand to help bring the January 20 telecast of the national championship matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Ohio State Buckeyes to viewers across North America.

The Nexstar Media Group-owned NBC affiliate serving Georgia's Coastal Empire and the nearby Hilton Head-Beaufort-Bluffton region of South Carolina is getting a new News Director. He'll start his new role on February 17.