Headlines
Competitive Info: The TV Industry Braces For A Consolidation Shake-Up.
Sinclair Broadcast Group has made a formal bid to purchase E.W. Scripps, while Nexstar Media Group moves forward with a separate plan to acquire Tegna, marking two potential mergers that would significantly reshape the local television landscape.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deal Digest: $20 Million Of Radio Sales Filed As FCC Reopens.
Connoisseur Media has filed a $10 million deal to buy four Bay Area FMs from Bonneville International.
Scripps Adopts Limited-Duration Shareholder Rights Plan
It says the plan “is intended to protect shareholders from coercive tactics and to provide the board with time to thoroughly evaluate the [Sinclair] offer and any other potential strategic alternatives.”
FCC Filings Confirm Sale Price for Connoisseur’s Missouri Stations
One week after its announcement, we now have a price tag on Carter Media’s acquisition of fifteen Connoisseur Media stations and two FM translators in Missouri, and this deal is much more traditional than the one that saw Connoisseur exit the Bakersfield, CA, market.
FCC
FCC’s December Meeting To Address LPTV ‘Regulatory Certainty’
It was first shared in a short teaser from Chairman Brendan Carr in a blog post on Monday discussing the agenda for the FCC’s next Open Meeting on December 18.
Radio
AM and FM Commercial Totals Dip Again in FCC’s Delayed Report
Delayed by the government shutdown that halted most federal reporting, the FCC broadcast totals for Q3 2025 show slight growth, but continue to trace a clear divide between declining AM and commercial FM and a fast-growing noncommercial sector.
Cumulus and Nielsen Set the Stage for Antitrust Court Battle
What Cumulus Media calls “a critical inflection point…for the broadcast radio industry as a whole,” Nielsen calls “hyperbolic and baseless,” as the two prepare to square off in federal court over the measurement giant’s Network Policy and the economics of ratings access.