LTN counts TelevisaUnivision among its clients, and LTN Chief Revenue Officer Chris Myers says the company's new offerings "reflect a reinvigorated focus on revenue enablement for sports and media companies of all sizes.”
Users can now define study parameters more efficiently, invite collaborators with customizable permissions, and leave comments directly in the study setup process to reduce friction and align on objectives, Veritonic says.
The Media Bureau is now seeking comment on a Petition for Rulemaking filed by HC2 Broadcasting asking the FCC to allow low-power television (LPTV) stations — on a voluntary basis — to use the 5G Broadcast transmission standard as an alternative to the currently-authorized ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 standards.
A trio of licensees of broadcast television stations serving Southern California have each entered into consent decrees with the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division, led by Barbara Kreisman, that will see civil penalties of significance result in hefty checks written out as payable to the U.S. Treasury.
A Class A FM radio station licensed to cover the U.S. Virgin Islands' territories of St. John and St. Thomas is being sold by Gordon Ackley, a longtime operator of broadcast properties in this English-speaking Caribbean commonwealth under FCC jurisdiction.
“Verizon is an incredibly important and valued partner to the radio industry,” said RAB President/CEO Mike Hulvey, who also serves as chair of the Radio Creative Fund. “The brand’s messaging is always culturally relevant."
Financing for the transaction is being provided by Brigade Capital Management. What's the story with that operation? It's a safe bet it is not as controversial as the entity that holds majority interest in radio industry peer Audacy Inc.
For weeks, media brokers and industry observers have been awaiting news on a transaction that many believed would be announced one month ago, as radio business leaders gathered in Las Vegas for the 2025 NAB Show. Now, rumors have become reality: Jeff Warshaw has secured the financing needed to move forward with his Connoisseur Media's acquisition of Alpha Media.
More changes have come to the C-Suite at Philadelphia-based Audacy Inc., the audio content creation and distribution company founded as Entercom by Joseph Field and today controlled by Soros Fund Management. This sees the arrival of a new Chief Information Officer.
TV ad sales and tech company Ampersand is welcoming a new Chief Revenue Officer, and it is someone who was most recently EVP and Head of National Sales for the broadcast television station ownership group that is parent to more over-the-air properties than any of its peers and is founded by Perry Sook.
He has been part of the Scripps D.C. sales team for the last six years, serving as a senior manager of business operations, Director of National Sales Operations and Senior Director of National Sales Operations.
Now he's being promoted to VP of Political and "Pay for Performance" at The E.W. Scripps Co.
The company with majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management is saying goodbye to its five-year Chief Technology Officer, one of its more visible top-tier leaders in recent years. It's the latest move in a wholesale reshaping of Audacy's executive suite since the departures of David Field and Rich Schmaeling.
The latest Spot Ten Cable report is out courtesy of iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors, and three big brands showed their might for the week ending May 4. By play count, the spot leader is a big home improvement retailer.
There's a pirate radio broadcast operation in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, and the FCC is going after the property owner after being unable to discern who the FM buccaneer is. Now, the landlord could be held culpable under the "PIRATE Act."
The Senior Deputy Chief in the FCC Media Bureau's Policy Division has allowed Elko County, Nev., to correct its request to modify the satellite television markets of a group of Reno, Nev., broadcast stations. This would allow carriage in the region of the Silver State of stations based in Nevada.
It's a 6kw Class A FM serving an area of Northeast Ohio between Mentor and Ashtabula, and airs a regional Oldies format that in the 4pm hour featured Detroit act 100 Proof (Aged in Soul) and the America track "Daisy Jane." Soon, this unique Oldies station will be in the hands of a new owner.
Nathan Simington and his new Chief of Staff, Adam Wax, have joined together for an opinion piece for an online news organization in which they emphatically support the FCC's investigations into CBS over alleged "news distortion." At the same time, Wax and Simington want big changes to "reverse compensation."
As 2025 began, Fubo agreed to its purchase by The Walt Disney Co. Now, the company led by CEO David Gandler has released its Q1 2025 results, perhaps its last first quarter fiscal report as an independent "sports first" vMVPD. The details are a bit cheerful. It's the Q2 visibility that's a bit glum.
Radio Ink and Radio + Television Business Report are proud to announce that Cox Media Group Executive Vice President and Head of Radio Rob Babin and Nexstar Networks President Sean Compton will serve as co-chairs for Forecast 2026. The event is scheduled for November 12 at the Harvard Club in New York.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says the agency is moving forward with an effort to "terminate" more than 2,000 official proceedings that have become dormant and, in his view, "no longer serve a purpose for the American people." It's unread to the "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative that has captured the media's attention.
