NYF’s Radio Awards has opened the 2025 competition for entries and introduced seven new categories, "further showcasing the wide range of talent and creativity that drives the industry," New York Festivals shared on Wednesday.
In May 2020, he was named President/GM of the ABC Owned Television Stations' property serving Central California. Now, he's been tapped to succeed Wendy Granato in Houston.
Coloff Media was founded by Tony and Sue Coloff in 1978. Today, it is led by Jim Coloff. Now, the Iowa-focused company has agreed to expand with the purchase of an AM/FM combo and FM translator in a town due north of the Quad Cities.
DirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter on Tuesday hosted an "analyst call" that served largely as a one-sided pitch defending DirecTV’s reasons for blocking its subscribers from any Disney-owned TV channel in the absence of a new retransmission consent accord. The latest RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, features excerpts from the call.
He's been GSM for both Audacy Inc. and iHeartMedia's radio stations in Richmond. Now, he's moving up I-95 to lead sales for iHeart's properties serving the National Capital Region.
Corus Entertainment Inc. has completed an agreement to amend its "Sixth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement" with its bank group, led by RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities, as co-leads, dated March 18, 2022, as last amended on May 30, 2024.
A former Scotiabank executive VP is now responsible for leading the sales and marketing, digital, brand, product and community relations teams of Cogeco's telecommunications business across Canada and the United States.
YouTube moved into the lead among media distributors in the July 2024 Media Distributor Gauge report, Nielsen’s monthly view of total TV consumption by media company. Thank the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which began on July 26, for the big bump, which also positively impacted NBCUniversal.
The company behind a technology that can transform commercial broadcast radio to a subscription-based ad-free streaming offering says its mobile app is now compatible with both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto interfaces. The news triggered strong pre-market buying of Auddia Inc. stock.
With nearly all children across the U.S. back to school, or ready for at-home classwork through parental teaching, one large department store chain used the Labor Day holiday weekend to step up its advertising efforts. To lure consumers, it turned to Spot TV.
Nexstar, via its legal counsel at Wiley Law, says a proposed fine of $720,000 for alleged "good faith" negotiation violations in its carriage fee consent talks with Hawaiian Telcom should be rescinded. Why? The Supreme Court of the United States' recent decisions erasing "Chevron deference" dictate so.
With AI and Machine Learning expected to be a major focus at IBC2024, Telestream will spotlight how its products provide value and, its view, tackle the industry’s most critical bottlenecks. "These media processing tools are designed to optimize every step of the media production lifecycle," it says.
Massachusetts-headquartered Avid says it is primed to unveil a series of product enhancements across its portfolio at the upcoming IBC2024 event that are designed to change how media creators produce premium content for television, film, and news.
StreamGuys is moving ahead with plans to introduce a new ultra-low-latency streaming service at the upcoming IBC event in Amsterdam that it says "brings synchronicity to the 'second screen' experience of a live sports event."
DataCore-owned Perifery has brought to market a "comprehensive workflow solution" that it says integrates storage, asset management, applications, and artificial intelligence functionality.
The nation's lone satellite radio operation is moving forward with a new tech facility in Ireland. As SiriusXM sees it, Dublin-based employees are expected to play a critical role in the company’s continued digital transformation, and will function as a center of excellence for SiriusXM’s Product and Technology organization.
Built on the legacy of the Telos iPort series of hardware products, Zephyr Connect is delivered as a software container that can be deployed on-premises on a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) server or cloud-hosted.
At 7pm Eastern on Sunday, once of the fiercest carriage agreement battles in recent memory began. It pits DirectTV against The Walt Disney Co. It's a war that could go on for weeks, or months, as the battleground has evolved significantly since their last retransmission consent agreement was finalized in 2019.
The CRTC has released its annual highlights of the nation's broadcasting sector, based on the broadcast year, which ended precisely one year ago. How did the 2022-2023 season shape up, fiscally speaking? Conventional television continued to operate at a loss during the period, as total broadcasting revenue was statistically flat.
It's a controversial matter, and as such there are presently three petitions for review of a FCC vote pending in a federal appeals court that seeks to put a stop to the restatement of data collection from broadcast licensees using Form 395-B. Privacy issues are the key concern for those seeking to stop the Commission.
