BIA Advisory Services' revised 2025 U.S. Local Advertising Forecast projects total local advertising revenue to reach $169 billion this year, reflecting a 2.4% decline compared to the previous year. This updated forecast is a 1.5% decrease from the company’s earlier estimate of $171.4 billion.
Larry Crain has signed off on an agreement that will see the transfer of control of two AMs, two FM translators and four FM stations in Arkansas to a licensee led by Robert D. Connell that's all about freedom. In fact, that's the company's name.
He's become known across the radio industry as the President/CEO of broadcast technology company MaxxConnect. But, Josh Bohn also happens to be the Managing Member of Signal Mountain Broadcasting, an Alabama-based operation that's agreed to sell a daytime-only AM and its low-power TV sibling.
How to Black American listeners spend time with radio and other audio mediums? While it's been long known that African Americans overindex when it comes to their on-air and on-demand audio consumption, the latest Audio Today 2025 report from Nielsen Audio codifies fresh data illustrating this point.
It comes as a big surprise to many. In a single sentence offered by its CEO at the start of its Q2 2025 earnings call, Caroline Beasley revealed that Beasley Media Group is selling its five radio stations in Fort Myers for $18 million. RBR+TVBR knows who the buyers are.
She began her media career in her hometown of Jackson, Miss., and after more than five years as a radio personality, she transitioned to TV news as a producer for WAPT-TV in Jackson, some 17 years ago. Now, she's been appointed Director of News and Multiplatform Content, starting August 25, at WGN-9.
Here's the good news when it comes to Beasley Media Group's Q2 2025 earnings report: the radio station owner's net loss declined. However, it appears that expense controls are to thank, as the net revenue and adjusted EBITDA each fell. A surprise transaction in its home market is also a likely factor.
They are described as "strategic executive promotions in enhanced leadership roles," and they see the VP of Business Development rising to the role of Chief Operating Officer while its seven-year VP of News is being elevated to the role of Chief Innovation Officer. There's also a third promotion at Morgan Murphy Media.
Today, former radio and television station licensee Schurz Communications is focused on regional broadband companies, through which cable TV services are offered. Now, it is mourning the death of its former chief executive, Franklin Dunn Schurz Jr. He passed away in Bozeman, Mont., at the age of 94.
It's a cue taken from internet services providers such as Xfinity and Spectrum, and could bring a whole new dimension to virtual MVPDs, which are now, like traditional cable television service companies, seeing subscriber roll struggles in the streaming age.
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A "Total TV" campaign forecasting, planning and optimization-focused global ad technology company is partnering with Charter Communications' Spectrum Reach advertising arm. It's a relationship that brings tvbeat’s programmatic capabilities to linear TV advertising in the U.S.
Deltatre, known as a provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports and media industries, has reached a five-year partnership with Italy's Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) to develop and run all aspects of LBA’s production and operations, third-party distribution, and DTC OTT offering.
It's a move that the company says is in response to broadcasters’ growing adoption of Next Generation Audio (NGA) to deliver more immersive, personalized and accessible content. The development marks a shift-change for object-based broadcast audio workflows, says SSL Broadcast Product Manager Berny Carpenter.
With widespread speculation that TEGNA will be selling its broadcast TV stations to Nexstar Media Group in a matter of days, Sinclair Inc.’s Board of Directors has authorized what it is calling “a comprehensive strategic review for its Broadcast business.”
“Our second quarter performance was solid and slightly ahead of our initial expectations," iHeartMedia Chairman/CEO Bob Pittman shared in prepared remarks released after the close of U.S. financial markets on Monday, as the nation's biggest radio station licensee released its Q2 2025 results.
How did iHeartMedia do?
In his return to Telos Alliance, Egor Tyagunov will primarily focus on the Jünger Audio and Linear Acoustic product lines. “I’m excited to be working again with my colleagues at Telos, particularly when such rapid changes are occurring in the TV and streaming content landscape,” Tyagunov said.
With Diversity, Equity and Inclusion a hot topic of late, as FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has pledged to tackle "invidious" forms of discrimination as it pertains to "DEI," what will the Commission's viewpoint on its latest Equal Employment Opportunity audit yield? Some radio and TV stations are about to find out.
Nearly half of all US adults say TV is the most acceptable place for advertising – a feeling that is consistent across all generations. Additionally, TV is the platform where they tend to pay attention to ads the most. That’s according to new research from Tenetic and CivicScience.
The publicly traded company led on a day-to-day basis by Albert Rodriguez that is the parent of WBLS and WQHT "HOT 97" in New York and the Estrella Media Hispanic market-focused radio and TV station licensee enjoyed a roughly $5 million year-over-year revenue gain in the second quarter.
