Headlines
Local TV Shifts To Cost-Effective Programs As Big-Budget Syndication Wanes
Broadcasters are determining how to monetize the digital space, while digital creators move into linear platforms like FAST, leaders from Fox, Tastemade and Gray Media told an audience at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference earlier this week.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders Approve Paramount Skydance Deal
Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that its stockholders voted to approve a $81 billion takeover by Paramount Skydance Corporation at the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held earlier today on April 23.
Deal Digest: FCC Gets Another Nebraska Waiver Request
Jared Goodell’s Community Media has filed an $850,000 deal to buy the classic rock “The Peak” simulcast of WKKN, Westminster, VT (101.9) and WTHK, Wilmington, VT (100.7); sports WEEY, Swanzey, NH (93.5) and adult hits “The Penguin” WFYX, Walpole, NH (96.3) from Jeff Shapiro’s Great Eastern Radio.
Television
NFL To FCC: Ending Antitrust Exemption Would Mean “Higher Costs and Confusion”
Faced with increased pressure from Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the ongoing shift of major sports rights to streaming, the NFL has told the FCC that its current policy of distributing media rights “benefits fans and local broadcasters in many ways” and that attempts to end league’s antitrust exemption would mean “higher costs and confusion” for consumers.
David Ross on efficiency, floating licenses and why corporate AV is a serious market
David Ross has been making the case for efficiency in broadcast production for three decades. At the 2026 NAB Show, he said the industry is finally in a place where that argument lands without much persuasion.
Radio
Inside Techsurvey 2026: What Radio’s Biggest Fans Are Telling Us.
Jacobs Media President Fred Jacobs presented findings from Techsurvey 2026 during a webinar, breaking down key takeaways from one of radio’s most closely watched annual audience studies.
The Sports Audience TV Can't Match Is on the Radio, Study Shows
Sports radio listeners are twice as likely as non-listeners to support brands that back their favorite teams, according to a Vision Insights’ Decoder study, and now Audacy is using the findings to make its case against national television for athletic ad dollars.
Cashing In: How Radio's Best Sellers Navigate a Skeptical Market
Trust is radio’s oldest currency. But trust, like any currency, fluctuates with the market. When the economy tightens, when platforms multiply, when clients arrive carrying the weight of past disappointments, the transaction changes. The ask is belief.
Print Media
The News-Gazette launches local radio show to expand its journalism into audio
This year, the News-Gazette team — a staff of 16 full-timers — found a new way to develop its audience, serve the public, extend the reach of its journalism and innovate on a new platform.