Headlines
Local TV meteorologists are weathering the storm
Recent uncertainty about the future of local TV meteorologists has the community evaluating how we hear about critically important weather events.
Report: Public Media Cuts Could Leave Millions In the Dark During Disasters.
Public media is more than “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” or “Sesame Street.” It’s also a life-saving tool that is at risk with pending cuts to federal funding.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $78,000
Mainstreet Broadcasting Co, headed by President Paul Bossert. It owns other stations, including K23OU-D, K34GI-D, KSBK-LD & KSPK-LD Colorado Springs-Pueblo.
Court Ignores Protests, Approves KDHX Takeover.
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of KDHX St. Louis (88.1), the longtime home to Gateway Creative Broadcasting, the parent company of contemporary Christian “Joy FM” and Christian hip-hop “Boost Radio” stations.
Television
Allen Media Group Adds 23 Warner Bros. Discovery Channels to Local Now
Allen Media Group streaming platform Local Now today launched 23 news, sports and entertainment channels from Warner Bros. Discovery.
Radio
iHeartMedia Brings Radio to Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
Don Henley was the first to mention Ray-Bans and the radio in the same song, but iHeartMedia is the first to make the combination literal.
CTV/OTT
Young/Old TV Consumers' Divergence: AVOD Vs. FAST
Young and older U.S. consumers continue to show diverging preferences when it comes to legacy and new TV-video platforms, according to ARF’s DASH, a syndicated study conducted in partnership with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Media
State AGs, Radio Groups Battle Trump’s CPB Defunding Order
Two sizeable coalitions of state attorneys general and public radio outlets are rushing to the aid of NPR in its lawsuit against President Donald Trump to stop the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as Congress sends mixed signals over CPB’s future.