Nielsen’s cross-media planning/optimization tool, Nielsen Media Impact, is expanding to include radio as a media platform. It will allow users to follow cross-media reach, frequency and duplication using advanced audience segments. Radio can now be compared to other national media. It will allow advertisers/agencies to see custom dayparts,radio formats, owner groups and RADAR Networks.
SummitMedia is paying $47 million for the company’s final 19 outlets.
Lotus Communications is buying the nine stations in Idaho and Arizona for $8 million. The sale is the third in a series of radio sale transactions for Scripps, which announced in January its intent to sell its portfolio of 34 radio stations in eight markets.
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The FCC today took what it called “a historic and long overdue step” to increase ownership diversity in the radio industry. Specifically, it adopted requirements that will govern an incubator […]
The sale is the second in a series in which Scripps expects to sell all 34 of its radio stations in eight markets. In June, it announced the sale of five radio stations in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Tulsa-based Griffin Communications.
Traditional radio believes it can give TV advertisers better access to light TV viewers — with higher campaign lift — by allocating some of their media dollars to radio.
The largest U.S. radio company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it struggles to deal with its $20 billion debt pile.
Embattled iHeartMedia Inc. is circulating documents for a bankruptcy filing that could come as soon as this weekend for the biggest U.S. radio broadcaster. Advisers to some of iHeart’s senior creditors have been shown bankruptcy papers that would be used on the first day of court proceedings, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Salisbury, Md.-based Draper Media has completed its acquisition of MTS Broadcasting in Cambridge, Md., which comprises WAAI-FM, WTDK-FM, WCEM-FM and WCEM-AM. “Our audience will have more choices for music, information […]
Cox Media Group adds responsibility for its radio and digital operations to the news director of its Fox affiliate KOKI.
Longtime radio broadcaster Roger D. LeBrecht, known to “Don” to his friends, died Feb. 22 at age 80. He spent more than four decades in broadcasting and retired 14 years […]
National Public Radio has adopted a series of measures to improve its workplace culture, following an independent investigation into sex harassment issues stemming from the ouster of a top executive. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The sportscaster who popularized the phrase “Let’s go to the videotape!” filed an age discrimination lawsuit on Thursday over his firing from shock jock Don Imus’ […]
The restructuring is designed to save more than $30 million annually and put a “high priority on configuring a more durable TV station portfolio during this period of changing local market regulations.”
The Broadcasters Foundation of America, the national charity that provides aid to past and present members of the broadcasting profession, has established the Edward F. McLaughlin Memorial Fund to honor […]
FCC Seeks Comment On Foreign Station Buys
The FCC this week announced the filing of two applications seeking broadcast acquisitions by non-U.S. based companies. In one, a company controlled by Mexican citizens would go from 25% to 100% ownership and control of a company that owns two FM stations in California and Arizona. In another, an Italian company would acquire a number of radio stations in Florida. Each of the FCC notices ask for public comment on the proposed acquisitions.
There are some hurdles ahead as the radio group seeks to restructure its $2.3 billion in debt.
Just ahead of debt default, the nation’s second-largest radio group yesterday filed for bankruptcy while offering a restructuring plan to reduce debt by more than $1 billion. “Our existing secured lenders will become our new majority shareholders.”
Garrison Keillor, the creator and former host of A Prairie Home Companion, said today that he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio, over allegations of improper behavior. Keillor didn’t detail the allegation to AP, but in an email to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Keillor said he had put his hand on a woman’s bare back in an attempt to console her.
His departure comes after Tuesday’s Washington Post report on sexual harassment allegations from two women while he was at The New York Times in the 1990s.
Limbaugh Chokes, Fails Broadcasting 101
With a killer hurricane approaching fast, the right-wing provocateur chose to bash TV stations for their weather coverage and suggest to his listeners that the threat of Irma was being overblown. This was right before he fled his Florida studio. You would think the man never sat in front of a live microphone before.
