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.
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.
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.