Radio+Television Business Report

The presumptive Democratic candidate for President of the United States has seen her campaign invest in a big week-over-week increase in broadcast television spots, new data from Media Monitors show.

On April 30, 2019, Carl Lamm officially said goodbye to the radio industry. Now, those who knew Lamm are preparing to say their goodbyes to him. Lamm died on Thursday following a period of declining health at the age of 97.

Phil Donahue, who pioneered the issues-driven, audience-fueled television talk show format in Dayton, Ohio, later taking his program to WGN-9 in Chicago and, ultimately, New York, has died at the age of 88 following a lengthy illness, TMZ reports.

Some two-thirds of TV content viewers are using free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) platforms in a typical month, a new Horowitz Research report on the state of media, entertainment and technology that focuses on viewing habits finds. Four FAST networks stand out in the study.

Quu Inc. is transfixed on bringing elegant imagery to in-dash audio entertainment systems when one tunes to a radio station, and Saga Communications has just committed to delivering a visual "cue" to those enjoying free over-the-air audio content.

The addition of Veritone’s media and entertainment solutions to AWS Marketplace comes in conjunction with a recently announced three-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA), as well as Veritone’s advancement to the Advanced Tier Services Partner status.

He joined ABC News as a freelance video editor based in London in 1998 and for the past 26 years has held various roles within ABC News. Now, he's been elevated to President, reporting to Debra OConnell, the President of News Group and Networks under the Disney Entertainment arm.

The selection of eight new "Legends inductees" into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2024 has been made. The honors, the Hall says, recognize "the talents and efforts of on-air personalities, programmers and operators who contributed with greatness to the radio industry and have since passed away."

The presence of ATSC at the SET Congress and Expo comes after a July recommendation to the Brazilian government of the ATSC 3.0 “physical layer” as the over-the-air transmission system for the country’s upgrade to next-generation broadcast terrestrial services.

In an Opinion and Order released on Friday, federal district judge Margaret Garnett ordered the joint venture participants behind the forthcoming Venu Sports be prohibited from launching the forthcoming OTT platform pending the court's final ruling. It's a win for "sports first" vMVPD Fubo.

The new Chief Product & Technology Officer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN has been selected, and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden and ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro all came together to share the news.

The President of Networks at Nexstar Media Group has just executed a sale of more than 3,900 shares of the company's stock, an SEC filing shows. This executive will continue to own nearly 11,000 shares of the broadcast and cable television station group that also happens to own WGN Radio in Chicago.

Lansing, 67, enjoyed a career that involved navigating some media organizations through bumpy periods in their history. This included his time at NPR, which began in October 2019. News of Lansing's departure came in September 2023, when word came of his retirement at the end of the year.

"Building on years of successful interagency collaboration, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeks comment on a wide range of potential rule changes to improve the Citizens Broadband Radio Service for all current and future users of the 3.5 GHz band," the FCC said on Friday.

The company was founded by the late Ted Rogers with the purchase of CHFI-FM 98.1 in Toronto. Today, Rogers Communications is a multimedia Goliath in Canada. As of Wednesday (8/14), it has a new Executive Chair, and it is a member of the Rogers family.

A major water main break near the Jacques Cartier Bridge brought significant troubles to the city of Montréal on Friday morning, with Bell Media's broadcast radio and television station studios and offices shuttered following the incident.

While watching the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, public speaking coach Rosemary Ravinal felt inspired to look for a link between public speaking and the Games. "One is about delivering powerful speeches while the other is about competing in sports," she writes in this new column.

He has programmed radio stations for Cumulus Media for more than 20 years. Now, he's been promoted to Operations Manager for the company's Baton Rouge stations in addition to becoming Program Director of its Adult R&B and Gospel stations in the New Orleans market.

The Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court has affirmed a July 2023 ruling that requires the nation's largest owner of broadcast television stations to repay direct broadcast satellite TV services provider DirecTV for fees associated with what is today an unaffiliated TV station branded as “DC News Now.”

Unaided awareness for a local business towered over well-known national franchises, and the Radio advertising success story in this college town from Steve's Pest Control is an academic learning lesson worth hearing at the upcoming Radio Masters Sales Summit on September 10-11 in Cincinnati.