Krantz Media Group President and CEO Gary Krantz passed away on Tuesday at the age of 65. His broadcast career, which spanned over four decades, was marked by contributions to broadcast radio, digital media, and syndication.
FCC Chairman Carr has reversed a late-hour decision by now-departed Jessica Rosenworcel to have an Acting Media Bureau Chief dismiss on delegated authority a complaint against NBC and an Acting Enforcement Bureau Chief toss on similar authority complaints against CBS and ABC on the grounds that the actions were premature.
The Program Director and morning host at Cumulus Media-owned KCMO Radio for the last 6 1/2 years has been promoted to VP of News/Talk for the publicly traded company, putting him in control of what airs across some 43 spoken word radio stations owned by the company. Bill Hess will now focus on WMAL-AM & FM.
The ATSC, the nation's Broadcast Standards Association, has elected a Chairman of the ATSC Board of Directors to serve in the role across 2025. It is LG's most-senior U.S. government affairs, corporate communications and industry relations executive.
The NBA's Charlotte Hornets will benefit from added availability of five of its upcoming games, thanks to an agreement that will see a simulcast of FanDuel Sports Southeast games on stations owned by Gray Media and Capitol Broadcasting across the team's territory.
For nine days, Rosemary Harold assumed the role of Acting Media Bureau Chief. She replaced Holly Saurer while the FCC's head was still Jessica Rosenworcel. Now that Brendan Carr is in control, Harold's script has been pulled and the role has been recast.
It's a sort of homecoming for an individual who joined Cumulus Media in 2003 and has been General Sales Manager of Townsquare Media's Lafayette, La., radio stations for the last decade.
Meet the new head of Cumulus' Shreveport, La., radio stations.
The Media Rating Council has completed its accreditation process covering Nielsen’s innovative Big Data + Panel National TV measurement, after recently accrediting Nielsen’s integration of first-party live streaming data and re-accrediting Nielsen’s traditional Panel measurement. But, what about Nielsen ONE?
One Wall Street analyst, who has been hot on Netflix for years, raised his target price on the digital streaming Goliath's stock to a price that some may think is preposterous. In contrast, some may think Jeffrey Wlodarczak is right on the money after all, given Netflix's current-day dominance.
"We are proud to recognize the remarkable achievements of our exceptional leaders through these well-deserved promotions," Sinclair President/CEO Chris Ripley said as more than one dozen individuals at the publicly traded company have new positions to start the year.
In mid-September 2024, RBR+TVBR shared that Lynn Beall, who serves as TEGNA’s EVP/COO of Media Operations, is agreeing to depart “after a significant transition period" in the middle of this year. Could the company's Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings call for analysts and investors be Beall's curtain call before exiting?
Just hours after being sworn in, President Trump signed an executive order that ceases "Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing." In response, newly appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr ended the Commission’s DEI promotion. Anna M. Gómez had something to say about that.
Within hours of being sworn in as the 47th President, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.” On Tuesday, pursuant to the policies stated in the Executive Order, the new FCC Chairman announced that he is ending the Commission’s DEI promotion.
The NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers will simulcast five upcoming telecasts on Rock Entertainment Sports Network and on Gray Media-owned WUAB-43 in Cleveland. It's another instance in which a free-to-air television station is regaining live pro sports action after years of relegation to regional sports networks.
Some 26% of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other than non-Hispanic White, making the 119th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to date. In continuation of a long-running trend, this is the eighth Congress to break the record set by the one before it.
After 45 years of dedicated service, Teresa Samaniego is retiring as Vice President of Diversity and Community Engagement at KABC-7 in Los Angeles. Taking her role is the Director of Community Engagement at KTRK-13 in Houston.
In 2024, Sinclair Inc. and APTS shared that the company that's helping bring the ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard to life would provide carriage of APTS member stations for free in markets where Sinclair has deployed NEXTGEN Broadcast Service and a public television station has not. The third launch under this arrangement has come to fruition.
Westchester County-headquartered Townsquare Media believes it is right on-target when it comes to its 2024 revenue expectations and where the company will likely end up for the year. Preliminary FY '24 results were shared by the company ahead of Tuesday's return to trading on Wall Street.
The newly minted Chairman of the FCC wasted no time in announcing staff appointments to the Office of the Chairman and to the Commission. Who is the FCC's new Chief of Staff? It's a Michigan Law School graduate who has served as Deputy Bureau Chief and Chief of Staff of the Wireless Bureau.
After many years of appearing as a guest on several shows each week, a Radio Hall of Fame inductee who became an icon as a fiercely conservative Talk host is getting his own one-hour prime-time program each Sunday on the Chris Ruddy-helmed Newsmax cable TV news network.
