Despite a mostly flat financial performance to start 2025, Saga Communications has declared a quarterly cash dividend from the company's existing cash reserves. The Chris-Forgy-led broadcaster is also weighing a stock buyback through the remainder of the year.
iHeartMedia's Black Information Network has entered a multi-year collaboration with The Obama Foundation aimed at deepening youth engagement and civic participation. The effort will focus on elevating stories and programs that promote awareness and community impact, including the foundation’s Leaders Program.
National Public Radio and three of its Colorado member stations have filed a sweeping federal lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ceasing federal funding for the organization and PBS, calling it an unprecedented attack on press freedom and an illegal effort to dismantle public broadcasting.
With a Republican majority at the FCC days away, Commissioner Nathan Simington is signaling that broadcast media regulations in particular will be among the first ones to be slashed under Chairman Brendan Carr's "Delete, Delete, Delete" mandate.
A fire that broke out early Saturday morning, May 24, has destroyed the longtime broadcast home of WBNO and WQCT in Bryan, Ohio. The structure was deemed a total loss after the blaze engulfed the facility, which had hosted both stations since the 1960s.
A silent FM signal in southern Utah is back on the air with a new format and a pending sale. KCAY 100.7 FM, now branded Key 100, is the subject of an acquisition deal between SSR Communications and Media Advisors LLC, following FCC considerations into whether the station must relocate across the state line into Nevada.
Quick-service restaurants have traditionally relied on linear television to build brand recognition and drive traffic to stores, yet, unlike digital platforms, where the path from ad exposure to online conversion is easily tracked, TV’s influence has been harder to measure. But a new study from ad analytics firm EDO suggests that’s changing.
Radio's "Digital First Local Media Company" has announced that senior executives will participate in two virtual investor events over the next two weeks, offering updates and engaging directly with shareholders and potential investors.
If 20/20 is perfect vision, then the price that Cox Media Group has agreed on to sell its five-station radio cluster in Tulsa, Okla., to a local eye doctor and entrepreneur may be a very good omen, as CMG makes its second full-market divestiture in as many years.
As Memorial Day ushered in the unofficial start of summer, home improvement retailers surged to the top of the national radio advertising rankings, marking a strategic shift in seasonal marketing ahead of peak travel and renovation season, according to Media Monitors’ Spot Ten Radio rankings for the week of May 19–25.
Over-the-Top sports streaming platform Fubo is the latest service to double down on female-focused athletics, introducing a new Women’s Sports Zone aimed at consolidating coverage and capitalizing on heightened audience interest and advertiser demand.
FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez will bring her First Amendment Tour to Los Angeles next week, marking the campaign’s first stop outside Washington as she prepares to become the ranking - and only - Democrat on the Commission.
Streaming television continued its upward climb in April 2025, capturing a record 44.3% of total TV viewing, according to Nielsen’s latest edition of The Gauge. For the third consecutive month, YouTube ranked as the top media distributor, growing to a platform-high 12.4% of all television usage - its largest share to date.
The Media Bureau of the FCC has formally modified its rules as it pertains to FM terrestrial digital audio broadcasting systems, a change that is designed to give Xperi Corp.'s HD Radio a bigger signal contour.
ATSC, The Broadcast Standards Association, has selected the Sr. VP of Standards, Policy & Advanced Engineering at NBCUniversal as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Mark Richer Industry Leadership Medal. Clarence Hau will be honored this year with an award that salutes individuals or teams who demonstrate exemplary leadership in advancing ATSC’s mission and embody the […]
Streaming video has rapidly become the most critical source of digital growth for local broadcast television. In 2024, Connected TV and over-the-top advertising surged to nearly 30% of all digital revenue at local stations, up from approximately 10% the prior year, according to Borrell Associates’ 2025 Annual Digital Benchmarking Report. Borrell estimates that local TV […]
With the FIFA Club World Cup and the Concacaf Gold Cup on the horizon, Disney Entertainment and TelevisaUnivision have announced a new multiregion streaming video distribution agreement aimed at expanding access to Spanish-language programming in both the U.S. and Mexico.
MediaCo is strengthening its foothold in television and streaming after its Estrella asset acquisition, reshaping its leadership team with a trio of executive sales appointments to handle national and local revenue generation as the broadcaster expands its FAST offerings to include new takes on legacy assets.
Emergency Alert System hardware vendor Digital Alert Systems has issued a strong rebuttal to the NAB, defending its opposition to a proposed FCC rulemaking that would allow software-based EAS processing. In formal reply comments, the company refutes NAB's argument that the company's concerns are grounded in commercial self-interest.
Salem Radio Network syndicated host Mark Walters was the first to file a defamation complaint linked to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in June 2023, just months after the chatbot's public launch. Now that closely watched lawsuit has come to its conclusion, marking an early precedent in the legal scrutiny of generative artificial intelligence.
