Headlines
Here's What Project 2025 Says About Radio
With partisan outcry and support of the Heritage Project’s 2025 Presidential Transition Project, or Project 2025, making headlines, Radio Ink looked into the “Mandate for Leadership” to see what changes the conservative policy document could hold for radio.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Fitch Switch: Purchase of FM Resolves Unpaid Tower Lease Use
With the exception of his first year in Charlottesville, A. Wray Fitch has been an attorney with Gammon and Grange his entire legal career. He’s also held attributable interest in radio stations, and that will soon include a Class B1 FM serving the lower portion of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Station Sales Week Of 7/19
The Estate of John Walton’s Walton Stations sells Classic Hits 1360 KBUY/105.9 K290AY, Country “Bear Country” 1450 KWES/94.7 K234AQ, and Classic Country 93.5 KWES-FM Ruidoso NM to Will Rooney’s MTD Inc. for $170,000.
Television
FCC Adopts R&O To Make Closed Captioning Settings Easy To Access
The new requirement will make it simpler to get to the settings controlling how captions appear
NBCU Claims Growth In Upfront Advertising Sales
NBCUniversal said it has largely completed its upfront ad sales, registering a modest increase in volume across broadcast, cable and streaming.
Radio
MLB On The Radio: Numbers ‘Incredibly Strong,’ Says Nielsen’s John Snyder
The latest numbers from Nielsen show that radio listenership for Major League Baseball is more than just holding its own.
FCC
‘Readily Accessible’ Caption Requirement Approved
The FCC has adopted rules that are designed to better enable individuals with disabilities to access video programming through closed captioning.
Verticals
Study: Home Improvement Spending Could See Revival In 2024.
Last year wasn’t the best of times for the home improvement industry — with some product categories for professional and consumer markets seeing negative growth — but research from the Home Improvement Research Institute finds that happier days could be ahead as 2024 progresses.