Headlines
Radio News Salaries? ‘Another Year of Losing Ground’
For the third year in a row, radio salaries failed to rise to the level of inflation.
Chicago AM radio stations at risk as auto industry evolves (subscription required)
Congress is weighing legislation to force automakers to keep AM radio in cars. The future of Chicago's legacy AM stations may hang in the balance.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deal Digest: Translators Sold In St. Louis & Ft. Lauderdale; Civic Media Adds Two In Wisconsin
Wisconsin – Sage Weil and Michael Crute’s Civic Media has filed a $210,000 deal to buy country “98 Q Country” WCQM and adult hits WPFP (980) in Park Falls, WI from Stephen A. Marks Stations.
Forum Communications' planned purchase of KVRR-TV in Fargo, KQDS-TV in Duluth falls through
The deal failed to materialize as both Forum Communications and Red River Broadcasting awaited what is called a "big four waiver request" from the Federal Communications Commission. The waiver would have allowed Forum Communications to acquire a second "big four" affiliate in the Fargo market.
Radio
Study: NASCAR Fans Represent Lucrative Audience For Local Radio Stations
Stock-car racing is widely popular in the U.S. and for most Americans, the sport is synonymous with NASCAR. More than nine in ten (92%) motorsports fans are fans of NASCAR, according to a new research study commissioned by Motor Racing Network (MRN) and fielded by FMR Associates using their Local Radio Analysis (LRA) system.
Cable TV
Hank Price: Can CNN Be Saved?
Chris Licht should have gone down in history as the leader who returned CNN to glory. Instead, he leaves a trail of turmoil, wreckage and disappointment.
Digital
This Week Linda Yaccarino Joins Twitter As CEO, She Will Be Busy
At Twitter, one of Yaccarino’s first orders of business will be shoring up Twitter's reputation with numerous blue-chip advertisers, who have left the micro-blogging site since Musk acquired the company in late October.
Tech
How Disney and YouTube are experimenting with AI in video advertising
Executives envision the impact of AI for ad creative and workflows
Triton, Basis Deepen Integration To Support Ads Across Digital, Broadcast Radio Segments
Triton Digital, through a partnership with Basis Technologies, will enable marketers to streamline and consolidate advertising across podcast, streaming and terrestrial broadcast radio via the Triton Audio Marketplace.
FCC
FCC Pulls Non-Comm Application In Disclosure Drama
The FCC’s Media Bureau has dismissed a previously approved application for one company’s noncommercial FM station in Key West following a challenge from a rival broadcaster.