Radio+Television Business Report

After 47 years with Nautel, a retirement is coming for Wendell Lonergan. Who is Lonergan's successor? The company made that revelation on Tuesday.

He's been at the held of WPVI "6abc" in Philadelphia since 2007 and before that led WTVD "abc11" in Raleigh-Durham as President/General Manager. Now, his successor is being sought, as this local leader has just confirmed he is retirement.

If the FCC retains a national audience reach cap for television station ownership groups, should common ownership of stations that are not affiliated with the "Big Four" networks be excluded from the cap? The SVP of Regulatory Affairs at NBCUniversal Media has given the Commission its answer to this question, just in the nick of time.

Presented by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink in partnership with the NAB, the Radio Wayne Awards are the industry’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition of excellence in radio sales. Named in honor of “Radio Wayne” Cornils, the ceremony celebrates sellers, managers, and marketers whose work continues to drive the business side of broadcasting forward. 

He’s been overseeing a collection of broadcast TV stations under the Victoria Television Group banner for Morgan Murphy Media since July 2020 and previously led TV stations in San Angelo and in Abilene. Now, this 35-year industry veteran is readying for retirement. Please Login to view this premium content. (Not a member? Join Today!)

The nation's top owner of broadcast TV stations, which seeks to acquire TEGNA, has confirmed that Chief Financial Officer Lee Ann Gliha of its C-Suite will participate in four institutional investor conferences in September and October. CEO Perry Sook will join her for three of those events.

FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty has returned from a week-long visit to Alaska, where she met with industry leaders, as well as federal, state, local, and Tribal stakeholders to see firsthand the investments, policies, and hard work driving broadband expansion to some of the nation’s most remote and difficult-to-serve areas.

Globally debuting at IBC, groundSwXtch represents an extension of swXtch.io’s virtual overlay network, bringing software-defined multicast capabilities, SDI to IP, network path redundancy (Dash 7X) and more to physical on-prem environments.

YouTube continued its streak as TV’s "leading media distributor in July," according to Nielsen. This marks the sixth consecutive month online video hub has been perched atop the dominant ratings and audience data firm’s Media Distributor Gauge report.

For the sixth consecutive year, RBR+TVBR is pleased be accepting reader nominations for its 2025 Top Local TV Leaders list. We've received more than 100 votes so far ... be sure to get yours in today! The official Top Local TV Leaders of 2025 list will be exclusively released in the Fall 2025 RBR+TVBR magazine.

Waves Audio, a Knoxville-based developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is now shipping Clarix LB: an AI-powered noise reduction plugin for voice. The product is designed to clean ambient noise in real-time broadcast environments.

Telos Alliance plans to demonstrate several key AI-based workflows for its Minnetonka Audio AudioTools Server file-based audio automation platform at the upcoming IBC2025 conference and expo in Amsterdam.

It's a transaction that could have many people talking. Milwaukee Radio Alliance, presently led by Acting CEO Diane Sutter, has agreed to sell two FM radio stations in Wisconsin's largest city. Who the buyer is will be one topic of chatter. The other will be the price tag on this deal involving Kalil & Co.

FOX Television Stations is moving ahead with a series of leadership promotions across multiple markets where it has properties, resulting in a new Senior VP and Regional General Manager for its stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles; and for its properties in Seattle and Phoenix.

Now that Labor Day is nearing and summer vacations are ending, The Home Depot is revving up its advertising activity at both Spot Cable and Spot TV. That's according to the latest data from iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors.

Cumulus Media's four-station group in Des Moines has a new VP/Market Manager, and he's in-bound from Steel City Media in Kansas City, where he was a senior marketing consultant.

Two FM radio stations serving Spanish-language audiences in greater Las Vegas could soon be gone from the radio dial, even as a Nevada federal judge has blocked a subsidiary of American Tower Corporation from tearing down the stations' broadcasting structure.

The submission window is now open for the 2025 MIW & NAB Leadership Foundation LAUNCH Mentorship Program, described as a one-of-a-kind mentorship designed to cultivate emerging female talent in radio, with a focus on engineering, audio production, and technical operations.

SiriusXM and its lenders have agreed on an amendment to the satellite broadcaster’s existing credit agreement that pushes the window on its existing debt down the road, while increasing maximum borrowing capacity by another $250 million.

Should the man who successfully engineered the combination of his radio broadcasting company with the much-larger Alpha Media been given the role that today is held by Kelli Turner? A state-level judicial body in the Constitution State won't be asked to offer its answer to the question for what is likely two years.