Headlines
FCC’s Gomez: Trump Administration Is Waging an "Aggressive Campaign" to “Bring Broadcasters... to Heel”
In a fireside chat she urges FCC to “pivot away” from “partisan culture wars and focus on our core priorities”
Mergers & Acquisitions
Station Sales Week Of 3/14
Darnell Canty’s Minority Radio Broadcasting acquires Spanish Tropical “Mega 105.7” 1310 WEMG/105.7 W289AZ Camden and 103.3 W277BA Millville NJ from Mega-Philadelphia LLC for $140,000 as part of the station’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring last year.
Television
Local TV's 'Muted' Political Growth - What Comes Next?
Local TV advertising -- which for years has put much of its focus on those every-other-year gains of political ads -- did not perform all that well in 2024, according to Madison & Wall.
Orlando Fox Station Releases Footage of Tornado Hitting Station
Orlando Fox owned station WOFL has released footage of its studio getting hit by a tornado on Monday.
Radio
Edison Research’s Latest Share of Ear Finds AM/FM Rules In-Car Listening.
Edison Research’s Share of Ear for the fourth quarter of 2024 finds that AM/FM still dominates in-car listening.
FCC
FCC Database Filing Outage Extends Into Second Day
After an approximately 36 hour outage, the affected FCC databases are coming back online.
A Bucks County AM Must Fork Over Overdue Bucks
The owner of a Class B AM radio station with 3,200 watts during daylight hours and 1,300 watts at night serving a bucolic area near Trenton, N.J., has been given notice that it must pay its delinquent FCC regulatory fees or risk a license revocation.