Radio+Television Business Report

His resume features stations once owned by Doubleday prior to their sale to Emmis Broadcasting. Now, many industry veterans are pausing to remember Pat McNally, who died on May 7.

Free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) has moved from the margins of the streaming landscape to the center of how Americans watch TV, says Hub Entertainment Research. A new study from Hub shows that FAST services are quickly capturing TV households, with roughly half of those users calling FAST a "must-have."

The LPTV Broadcasters Association, founded by entrepreneur and LPTV champion "SuperFrank" Copsidas, very much wants 5G Broadcast to become a voluntary broadcast standard for U.S. LPTV stations. That's why he's written to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr seeking "immediate regulatory action."

As we conclude the first half of 2026, broadcast media’s sales leaders had plenty of challenges. Two key analysts chimed in with their thoughts as Omnicom Media Intelligence offered fresh insights on the matter, and the details are included in RBR+TVBR's just-released Summer 2026 magazine.

It has operated six radio stations in Elko, Nev., and four audio brands serving Clovis, N. Mex., in addition to the Ruby Want Ads and Your News NM websites. There's also the "Radio Santa" streaming audio offering. All are being sold off, as the company behind these offerings has entered Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.

There's a new leader at Spot Cable when it comes to the total amount of commercial appearances for the week ending May 10, based on data collected by iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors. It happens to be one of the oldest brands in the U.S., and its activity even eclipsed that of Liberty Mutual Insurance.

She's been associated with the nation's largest single owner of broadcast television stations since May 2009 and before that was VP of Legal Affairs for First Broadcasting. Now, she will serve as Executive VP/General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Directors of the company founded 30 years ago by Perry Sook.

Channel 13 in Stockton, Calif., is the latest broadcast television station to adopted an augmented reality/virtual reality news studio. The addition at KOVR-TV, better known as "CBS Sacramento," marks the 12th rollout of the technology-driven method bringing immersive storytelling and next-generation journalism to viewers.

Less than two weeks after Allen Media Group closed on the sale of a group of broadcast television stations to Gray Media for $171 million, Byron Allen's Allen Family Digital LLC has reached an agreement to acquire the parent of internet content hubs HuffPost and Tasty — BuzzFeed Inc.

TNDV and sister company Live Media, both divisions of Live Media Group, once again played a central role in delivering live broadcast coverage surrounding NCAA Final Four weekend, supporting both large-scale concert productions and live game-related programming across multiple platforms.

Zeno Media has expanded its ZenoRadio app by initiating both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, bringing global radio content directly into the in-car listening experience. "This allows listeners to access thousands of stations from around the world through their vehicle dashboard," says the company.

Connoisseur Media is asking the FCC to approve up to 100% indirect foreign ownership of its broadcast radio licenses in a structure that would place majority equity in the hands of Cayman Islands-registered entities while CEO Jeff Warshaw retains full voting control.

An advocacy group that has become the biggest thorn in the side of broadcast television station ownership groups has written to the FCC urging the Carr Commission "to prevent and deter 'Big Broadcasters' from evading meaningful FCC review of broadcast transactions." The real beef is over "Big Four" arrangements.

Another $50 million in cost-cutting is coming in the second half of 2026, as the nation's largest audio content creation and distribution company continues to tackle its outstanding debt and move past a first quarter in which revenue improved by nearly 10% overall yet saw adjusted EBITDA decline by 11.4%.

A writ of mandamus is defined as an order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the government official to properly fulfill their official duties. That's what the appellants in Free Press v. FCC want the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to issue, so Nexstar Media Group's approved merger with TEGNA gets unwound.

By an unanimous resolution, all 50 state broadcasters associations, and those representing Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, have agreed to tell legislators on Capitol Hill to reexamine the "Sports Broadcasting Act." Given the current state of access in the streaming era, in particular with NBA playoff games, the call for a closer look is growing louder.

It was first reported on April 8: The company founded in 1983 by Raúl Alarcón Jr. moved forward with a restructuring support agreement that sees it intend "to commence voluntary Chapter 11 cases" under U.S. bankruptcy code in a Delaware court. On Monday, the bankruptcy filing was made.

Add Sinclair Inc. to the group of broadcast television station licenses that will have executive leadership present at a pair of key upcoming institutional investor affairs. For the company led by CEO Chris Ripley, appearances will be seen in Austin on May 19 and in Boston the following day.

The FCC on Monday announced plans that would make available for bidding Construction Permits for vacant FM radio channels. It marks the first auction of FM radio CPs since auction authority was restored, and would start in February 2027.

FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gómez, in a letter to the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, has all but told the company under FCC scrutiny to fight what she calls "censorship" as its ABC Owned Stations face an early license renewal. Gómez also took the opportunity to unveil a "double standard" in Commission "targeting."