Thanks to "meme stock" Discord chat among gamers and followers to dubious trading option-makers with followers on X, "BBGI" exploded in growth on Wednesday. Within the first 90 minutes of Thursday's trading on Nasdaq, the wild increase in value had all but evaporated.
Travel to Visalia, Calif., and you'll find an automotive family focused on everything from Cadillacs and Chryslers to Dodge, Ford, GMC and Honda vehicles across five dealerships, plus GA Motorsports. It turns out the family behind these car and truck centers loves radio, and is buying an AM/FM combo.
Two entities within noncommercial giant Minnesota Public Radio have agreed to settle a matter in which Emergency Alert System tones inadvertently aired across nearly 550 broadcast radio stations during a program provided by the BBC. The consent decree involves a big U.S. Treasury "voluntary contribution."
Global advertising spend is now on course to close out 2025 with growth of 8.9% to $1.19 trillion, an upgrade from WARC’s September forecast. Why? Don't look to linear media, as WARC says the change is due to strong results from "Big Tech" platforms and a muted impact on global trade from tariffs.
Connected TV advertising player LG Ad Solutions has entered into new partnerships that the TV set manufacturer with its own "FAST" channel lineup across all of its televisions believes has established "the industry’s most robust local television dataset."
The New York Festivals Television & Film Awards has unveiled its 2026 Grand Jury, bringing together more than 100 top industry leaders from around the world to evaluate this year’s most innovative TV and film projects.
They're at it again. Three days after word surfaced that Verizon Fios was nearing an impasse over a fresh retransmission consent agreement with Cox Media Group, threating a "blackout" of the company's Pittsburgh and Boston stations, respectively, a new potential tussle over carriage rights fees has surfaced for the regional MVPD.
On October 9, Nexstar Media Group shares dipped below the $200 mark, and headed downward through November 14. One month later, growth in the company's stock price has resulted in another stab at an all-time high for "NXST" on Nasdaq.
He served as a Republican-aligned FCC Commissioner until First Amendment concerns over Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act cost him his job, with President Trump effectively replacing him with Nate Simington. Now, Mike O'Rielly has resurfaced at The Media Institute as its incoming head.
It serves an area just northwest of Reading, Pa., as a rebroadcast service of "Word FM," a regional Worship Music noncommercial radio network. Pending FCC approval, this FM translator will be held by a new licensee — a local broadcaster that gains an all-important MHz signal for an AM nearly left for dead in 2019.
Gray Media plans on commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America with a company-wide storytelling project that showcases how local people, places, and moments have shaped the American story.
The Bari Weiss era at CBS News has resulted in the shift from CBS Mornings to the anchor desk for the CBS Evening News.
The change for Tony Dokupil comes on January 5, 2026.
Half of Generation Z (Gen Z) interns expect 20% of their jobs to be automated by AI when they start full-time roles, but 92% are confident in their ability to adapt to AI advancements in their fields.
That's according to a new survey from KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm.
In recent years, he agreed to resurrect an AM left for dead by Beasley Media Group, and brought back three FM radio stations from the brink of extinction in Panama City, Fla., following Hurricane Harvey in October 2018. Now, Sam Rogatinsky is moving forward with a swap of FM translators.
As the Closing Bell approached on Wednesday, it became very clear that "meme stock" players on social media — the very merrymakers that gave GameStop its historically inexplicable stock surge from $4.71 to $81.25 in January 2021 — were driving "BBGI" to unfathomable heights.
Scott Musgrave — a longtime Arbitron Radio figure who most recently was associated with Coleman Insights — has accepted a role at RadioAnalyzer, a Denmark-based predictive automated research specialist seeking to expand its services to North America from Europe.
The entrepreneur has a fresh buyer in place for a low-power TV station serving San Francisco, after failing to sell it to Penny and David Drucker in February and, in 2024, to Scott Centers. Who's the new buyer? It's a face familiar to longtime viewers of KGO-TV who has made a name in South Asian-focused media.
The President of the Center for American Rights — a right-wing lobbying group intent on getting the FCC to probe NBC, ABC and CBS for "news distortion" — is suggesting the Commission should reclaim valued spectrum from any public radio or TV station should they fail to meet their respective operational budgets.
The Association of Independents in Radio has received an investment from the Ford Foundation, which the group says strengthens its capacity and advances long-term support for independent audio creators. "This funding marks a significant moment for AIR and the independent audio field," AIR says.
The original series is cleared to air on Saturday or Sunday mornings. It is a 30-minute weekly offering set at an adoption center and sanctuary in picturesque Hopland, Calif., north of Santa Rosa along U.S. 101.
