Headlines
Pew Survey Shows Support For Continued Public Media Funding.
As Congress debates whether to continue federal support of public media, a new survey from Pew Research finds three out of four Americans do not support efforts to end funding.
Trump ‘Would Love To’ Stop NPR, PBS From Tapping Federal Funding.
President Trump said Tuesday during a White House meeting that he’d be happy to see public broadcasters National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service lose their federal funding, Fox News reports.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Station Sales Week Of 3/28
After announcing its purchase earlier this month, Matt Hart’s Hart Media Group LLC will pay $1,383,000 to acquire Randal Miller’s Miller Media Group.
Radio
Katz: Baseball Radio Ads Were Home Run For Home-Improvement Retailer
Major League Baseball has just returned to action, and Katz Media is offering a peek at a case study from last season to demonstrate that radio ads deliver home runs for marketers.
Nielsen Drops Ratings For Lakeland-Winter Haven Market.
So long market No. 89. Nielsen has alerted subscribers that it will no longer produce ratings in the Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL market.
Tech
FCC Launches Proceeding on GPS Alternatives
The NAB has been promoting Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) using ATSC 3.0 broadcasts as a complementary service to GPS
Media
WARC: Tariff Disruptions Mean Big Downgrade In Global Ad Market Prospects
Global advertising spending is now on a path to expand by 6.7% this year to $1.15 trillion — a downgrade of almost one percentage point from November’s forecast due to growing market volatility, according to a new study from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC).
Nielsen Deal Brings First-Ever ID-Based Advanced Audience Integration
Audience measurement giant Nielsen has entered into a new partnership with a connected data and ad tech firm that will allow it to synch the Acxion Real ID into the Nielsen ID system.