Headlines
News/Talk Listeners Combine Loyalty With Buying Power
What’s behind news/talk’s success as Nielsen’s top-ranked radio format among persons 6+, year after year?
TV Is No Longer A Shared Room. What That Means Is Still Pulling Into Focus
Eighty-five years after the first TV commercial aired, the country’s experience of watching the same thing at the same time has fragmented into something else that’s still being named.
Television
Weigel launches audience-based ads platform across multicast TV networks
Weigel Broadcasting has introduced a new advertising platform designed to bring audience-based buying capabilities across its portfolio of broadcast television networks as advertisers continue shifting beyond traditional demographic targeting.
Radio
SBS Restructuring Officially Confirmed; Bankruptcy Exit Waits On FCC
Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) has officially won court approval for its Chapter 11 reorganization plan, clearing the biggest legal hurdle in its effort to slash debt by more than 75% and transfer ownership of the company to its creditors.
The Secret to More Profitable Marketing? Audio.
What if one media channel could make every other part of a marketing campaign work harder?
Out of Home
OOH Revenue Is Up — So Why Are We Losing Ground?
The headlines practically wrote themselves. Record revenue. Twenty consecutive quarters of growth. Another milestone for out-of-home.
Media
ABC Warns FCC’s Equal Time Probe Could Spill Into Talk Radio
Disney is warning the Federal Communications Commission actions over “The View” could eventually reshape how political interviews are handled on talk radio.
NAB Releases New Radio and TV Station Self-Inspection Guides
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has released newly updated Broadcast Station Self-Inspection Guides for AM, FM and television stations that provide broadcasters with practical guidance for conducting self-inspections of their stations and comply with Federal Communications Commission rules and policies.
Tech
The new math of total cost of ownership in broadcast infrastructure
Broadcasters have long treated infrastructure spending as a fixed cost of doing business: buy the hardware, provision for demand, budget for the eventual multiday migration to the next generation of equipment.
FCC
FCC Postpones NCE Translator Window – Filing Window Delayed Until November
The FCC had scheduled an August 2026 filing window for licensees of noncommercial AM or FM stations and LPFM operators to file applications for new FM translators in the Reserved Band (88.1 MHz to 91.9 MHz) (see our articles here and here on the filing window).