Headlines
Local Video Ad Trends: CTV is the Growth Leader, OTA is the Revenue Leader
Local video ad platforms attract significant ad spending because video in its various forms is a powerful messaging format. Examining each channel within local video with different filters offers different insights. Let’s take a look at a few.
One-Third Of All Listening To Twins Wildcard Games Was To Station Stream
Listening to online station streams continues to account for a larger share of time spent with broadcast radio. As of first quarter 2023, the portion of AM/FM radio time spent with station streams rose to 20%, according to Nielsen.
Television
Talking TV: Is ‘Daily Blast Live’ The New Model For Syndies?
Daily Blast Live, a Tegna-produced topical talker shot in Denver, may be heralding a new wave of cheaper, functional syndicated daytime shows. Its producer, Burt Dubrow and Tegna’s Brian Weiss, VP of entertainment programming and multicast networks, make the case.
Radio
Radio's Key To Court Gen Z: A Talk With MAB CEO Sam Klemet
So how does radio recruit Gen Z? The Michigan Association of Broadcasters may have the answer. Over the summer, they kicked off a new recruitment campaign called the “Be There” initiative, specifically targeting the future talent of radio.
Houston-area Town Awarded A New FM
Ten months and one week ago, the FCC received a petition to amend its Table of Allotments by adding a new Class C2 FM licensed to a town that is just 40 miles from the Houston transmitter site used by a variety of radio stations from the far southwest of the city’s downtown.
CTV/OTT
If Bally Sports RSNs Shuts Down What Happens to The NBA, MLB, & NHL Games? Here is Everything We Know
Bally Sport the largest regional sports network or RSN in the country is at very real risk of shutting down as it goes through bankruptcy. Even if it makes it through bankruptcy its vary possible that many teams it has TV rights for now will need to find a new TV network to air their games.
Digital
FCC Reasserts Authority Over Internet Access
Democrats launch effort to restore Title II-based net neutrality rules
FCC
Multilingual Alerts Will Expand Under New FCC Rules, But On Wireless Devices, Not Radio.
The Federal Communications Commission has for years been looking at ways to bring more language options to emergency alerts on radio. The endeavor has been hampered mainly by technical limitations but also by broadcaster attempts to show their voluntary efforts during real-world emergencies have achieved that goal without any regulation. A vote Thursday could help reduce the focus on radio.
$25,000 Proposed Fine for Alleged EEO Violations at Kansas Radio Clusters – A Higher Standard for FCC EEO Enforcement?
Earlier this week, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a Notice of Apparent Liability proposing a $25,000 fine on two related companies operating clusters of stations in two small Kansas markets.
Verticals
P&G, L'Oreal and Nestle Earnings: Read-Throughs For Advertising
Several additional massive advertisers reported calendar third quarter results this week providing further confidence in the likelihood of growth in advertising during the second half of the year, at least from its biggest spenders.