Radio+Television Business Report

He was the VP/GM of the CBS affiliate in Charlotte from 2015 to 2022 and has also been in National Sales at ABC and at such stations as WABC-TV in New York, in addition to serving as CEO of a Florida-based homebuilder. Now, he's taking the top local leadership role for TEGNA's CBS affiliate serving Columbia, S.C.

It's a new deal that extends the life of the company's affiliation with NBC at 11 Scripps-owned stations. In related news, Scripps Networks' VP of Brand Strategy has been promoted to Sr. Vice President of Marketing for the national arm of The E.W. Scripps Co.

The iHeartMedia-owned spoken word network led by President Tony Coles has appointed a new VP of News and Content, and he'll be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the newsroom and its team of journalists, with a focus on developing news content of interest to African American audio consumers.

When FOX Corporation, Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN parent The Walt Disney Company teamed up to create the forthcoming Venu Sports, "sports first" vMVPD Fubo went to federal court to try to stop the deal. Now, it appears that won't happen — Fubo is being acquired by Disney. Details and confirmation of the deal arrived Monday.

There's a new Director of Sales for Streamline Publishing's media division, which includes the Radio + Television Business Report, Radio Ink and the division's signature conferences, including the Hispanic Radio Conference and Forecast.

The first media network dedicated to sports betting will once again supply its audio sports betting programming to the nation's lone satellite radio service provider, starting January 17. That's the date VSiN content will return to SiriusXM.

It's been talked about for three years: by law, FM radio signals for Switzerland's much-consumed public broadcast stations were to come to a close-down by the end of 2024. That's now transpired, with DAB+ the main method one can tune to the audio channels without streaming.

TORONTO — “Media revenue in the fourth quarter was softer than expected, affecting our revenue target for the year.” That’s the glum news from the President/CEO of one of North America’s biggest communications and entertainment companies, as it announced when analysts and investors can expect to receive the company’s year-end and fourth quarter 2024 earnings report. […]

Cross-channel television and connected television advertising operation Simulmedia has brought in a new Chief Scientist, and it is a person known for his experience in media research, audience measurement and understanding data.

A radio station ownership group co-created by Chad Graves and Scot MacDonald is officially bigger, as it has closed on the purchase of a collection of AMs, FMs and FM translators it agreed to purchase in October 2024. The transaction sees Kalil & Co. serve as the broker.

The main source for PBS and NPR programming across The Peach State is starting 2025 with a new visual identity, an updated sonic logo and several other branding updates that can be seen or heard across 20 radio stations and nine television stations.

It was released on the final day of 2024, and adopted on December 30 — just in the nick of time to make the FCC's 2024 Communications Marketplace Report timely. And, it may take a lot of time to pour through it all. No less than 11 individual PDFs were distributed, including a principal document of more than 500 pages.

An NBC affiliate that was launched by Pulitzer as a sibling to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that has been associated with TEGNA since its days as Gannett and Combined Communications Corp., which purchased the station in 1979, is preparing to leave downtown St. Louis and sell its home of 40 years.

Audacy/New York sales associate Billy DiMaio had traveled to New Orleans to celebrate New Year’s Eve and attend the Sugar Bowl with friends. He lost his life during the early morning hours of January 1 in New Orleans in a vehicular terror attack on the tourist and entertainment center of Bourbon Street.

A heritage television brand that's been somewhat lost in the sea of Korean, Chinese and Japanese brands for a generation is poised to make a comeback of sorts next week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. And, it is all being fueled by ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast technology.

NEXTGEN TV broadcasts are coming soon to a second Caribbean nation, joining Jamaica in transitioning its signals to the ATSC 3.0 standard. And, a demonstration station is now on the air for those in a nation entering 2025 under a state of emergency due to heightened crime and violence.

There's a new General Manager to start the New Year at a pair of Gray Media television stations. One is in Mississippi, while the other is in the Rocky Mountain State.

There's a new Brand Manager for the Audacy Inc. Sports Talk station serving the city affectionately known as "Charm City." He joins the company after serving in a key role for Beasley Media Group.

The new year has brought a new Managing Member to the Lerman Senter law firm. It sees a successor to a highly respected woman who joined Lerman Senter in the late 1980s and has been a Managing Member since 2017.

Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Chairman-Elect of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, has announced the Committee’s Senior Staff members for the 119th Congress. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce senior staff will work under the direction of Staff Director Megan Jackson and Deputy Staff Director Sophie Khanahmadi.