Headlines
Where Are Brands Planning To Spend Their 2025 Media Budgets?
This is the golden age of advertising. Brands have more channels to reach consumers, more data to understand their behavior and better tools to grab their attention than at any point since the invention of the printing press.
FCC Investigating Audacy AM for Airing ICE Agents’ Locations
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has launched an investigation into Audacy San Francisco’s KCBS-AM after the station broadcast the locations of undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during deportation operations in the San Jose area.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Bangor Broadcaster Will Keep All Of Stephen King’s Stations In Local Hands
When author Stephen King announced he was taking his Bangor, ME stations dark at the end of December, many wondered whether his mission to keep the trio locally owned was a nice idea whose time had passed. But a second local buyer has just stepped up to buy the two remaining stations that made up King’s cluster.
Television
Surprise! Disney’s Bob Iger Calls Linear Networks An Asset
A couple of years after putting the company’s linear networks and broadcast stations on the block, Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger told investors that linear network now are an asset.
Radio
‘AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act’ Heads To Full Senate Floor
The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday morning approved reintroduced legislation that would mandate the cost-free accessibility of AM radio in all vehicles sold in the U.S., sending the AM Radio for Vehicle Act to the full Senate for a vote.
Nielsen: Radio Leads in Ad-Supported Audio Time
Radio continues to dominate ad-supported audio, claiming two-thirds (67%) of daily listening time, based on Edison Research’s Share of Ear data as reported in the latest edition of Nielsen’s “The Record” quarterly.
It’s Back! American Music Fairness Act Proposing New Music Royalties for Over-the-Air Broadcasting Introduced in the New Congress
Last week, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced the American Music Fairness Act (see their Press Release for more details), with a companion bill to follow in the House.
CTV/OTT
Fox Corp. Expects to Launch New Stand-Alone Streamer By End of 2025
Fox’s Sunday-afternoon football games and Fox News host Jesse Watters may soon have a new digital home.
Media
DOGE Puts NPR And PBS Funding Under Microscope.
With renewed efforts to end government funding of public radio and television, NPR looks forward to making its case to Congress.
FCC
FCC Revises Gender Data Policy, Fifth Circuit to Weigh In.
Uncertainty loomed over a New Orleans federal appeals court Tuesday, as doubts surrounded both the legal fate of new FCC employee data rules and the FCC’s stance on the issue.