DIRS has been activated in select counties in TN,and MS. Reporting is voluntary but stations are encouraged to report their status prior to 9AM EST for the previous day while the county remains activated. For more information, see the REC Disaster Information Page.
Conservative politically focused spoken word star and radio personality Dan Bongino has made it official: he will return to a daily program in early February with Cumulus Media’s Westwood One. While that was known as of Friday morning, it is now clear that it does not involve a syndicated radio offering.
From the Arkansas cities of Darnandelle and Russellville to Danville and Ora, Bobby Caldwell has become known by local businesses for his ownership of a group of radio stations serving the region. Now, Caldwell's EAB Media is selling the stations to a broadcasting operation led by Greg Horne.
It was a transaction that was quietly submitted for FCC regulatory approval ahead of the Labor Day holiday. Now, broker of record Doug Ferber tells RBR+TVBR that the deal has closed, giving iHeartMedia ownership of an FM translator in Austin it had been leasing.
Do the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Loper Bright and Jarkesy deliver the message that a federal agency’s financial penalty decision could not be the final one, leaving it to the judicial system to assess? Verizon and AT&T each think so, and sought input from the Supreme Court. Its now agreed to review the matter.
The FCC on Friday confirmed that it has granted the Elon Musk-controlled SpaceX "a major authorization" to advance its second-generation Starlink satellite system, marking a significant milestone in global broadband connectivity.
Brian Sather, President/GM of the Hearst Television property serving Central Iowa, is excited about the launch of a new 9pm newscast one can view in the Des Moines DMA. Yet, this new offering can't be seen on a Hearst-owned station. Rather, it will air on a crosstown station owned by Sinclair Inc.
It's a radio station that officially no longer exists. However, the last licensee for this home of a blend of music best-described as “Mellow Gold,” Hometown Communications, has struck a deal to bring the unique Class C AM radio station back from the dead.
In the TV industry, the WFOR call letters have long been associated with a TV station in Miami today owned by CBS Stations. In the radio world, it is an AM radio station serving Hattiesburg, Miss. Now, that AM, along with an FM translator and a full-powered FM sibling, are heading to a new owner.
With the loss of "Newsradio 880" and its closure by Audacy Inc., there's a little less financial news on Gotham's radio dial, aside from Bloomberg's flagship WBBR-AM 1130. The spoken word operation owned by John Catsimatidis is changing that, with twice-daily weekday reports being added to the lineup.
The Syracuse-based company that owns radio stations in Central New York founded by President/CEO Ed Levine has moved ahead with a series of internal leadership promotions. Among the moves is the elevation of its Chief Revenue Officer to the position of Chief Operating Officer.
Samsung Electronics on Thursday hosted a Visual Display (VD) Deep Dive session at CES 2026 designed to unveil the television set manufacturer's vision for the industry's next era. As the global TV market enters a new phase, Samsung outlined its strategy for the future of television.
With the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, some creative ways of coping with the funding loss have emerged. One involves the auctioning off — for thousands of dollars — of an artist made famous by Member stations in years past and has become a Generation Z icon.
On August 14, 2025, Nexstar Media Group shares surged to an all-time high of $211.31, and then began a three-month downturn. Since then, however, Nasdaq-traded "NXST" has experienced a sharp rebound, with a strong upward trajectory that began in early December.
It hasn't ceased.
Starting January 10, two women are poised to co-host the show from CBS Broadcast Center in New York. One joined CBS News in 2012 and previously served as co-host of CBS Mornings Plus, and the anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS Weekend News. The other arrived at CBS in 2024 from Fox Business.
The FCC has released its January Open Meeting agenda, and among the four items up for a vote is a Fourth Report and Order that would permit a new class of unlicensed 6 GHz devices—geofenced variable power (GVP) unlicensed devices—that operate outdoors at higher power.
"Closing the digital divide" was a mantra of ex-FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. It was a focal point for multicultural media leaders through the start of the decade. As 2026 begins, is there still a partition when it comes to smartphone ownership and internet use? Pew Research Center has an answer.
He signed an FM radio station in Crowley, La., on the air in 1977 and later purchased three low-power TV stations in the Bayou State. Barry D. Thompson was the owner, and died in September. This necessitated a shift in the ownership of the media properties, and the FCC has just granted that request.
It was reintroduced at the start of 2025, and again attracted overwhelming bipartisan support from Members of Congress. Yet, the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act has stalled in both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The Commander-in-Chief has made it clear he wants forward movement on the proposal.
CBS Stations has promoted from within to fill the role of Regional President and General Manager of its Northern California stations — a move that effectively adds Sacramento-area responsibilities to the person that's been in charge of its San Francisco properties.
Production professionals in radio, television, and streaming should be able to ensure that dialogues are always clearly understandable to the audience. Therefore, the Fraunhofer IDMT-HSA in Oldenburg developed the "Listening Effort Meter" (LE-Meter) for the objective evaluation of speech intelligibility.
