The individual who last Thursday informed all of the station's employees that the longtime ABC affiliation will be disappearing come early August has been selected as one of four inductees into the Florida Broadcasters Hall of Fame for 2025.
The second episode of the all-new RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Video Podcast, presented by dot.FM, arrives on Thursday. In this 24-minute conversation, Radio + Television Business Report Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson chats with Hearst Television President Michael J Hayes.
At the 2025 Hispanic Radio Conference, scheduled for mid-June in Houston, José Cancela will share why there is plenty of history to help us understand how those who first paved the way did the extraordinary, helping to build the Spanish-language media landscape that exists today.
It's not a secret to market observers that pharmaceutical companies have embraced broadcast television and national spots to help build brand awareness and grow sales. Last week, one Pharma brand led the pack in a big way.
Broadcast audio technology company Telos Alliance has decided what it will showcase at the upcoming 2025 NAB Show, and the company long-associated with Frank Foti believes its loudness management tools and Next Generation Audio (NGA) products for over-the-air and streaming TV deserve the spotlight.
Video technology and monetization platform JWP Connatix (JWPC) has a new CEO, and he will lead the company that just completed a merger combining JW Player with Connatix. He succeeds Dave Otten, JWP Connatix's outgoing CEO.
TVU Networks, known for its live media workflow products, has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners that provides software that runs on or integrates with AWS.
In November 2022, he joined the José Villafañe-led Nueva Network as Senior VP of Network Sales. Now, he is being upped to President as Nueva Network welcomes a new SVP of Sales and Business Development.
She's been a longtime financial leader who has regularly appeared on RBR+TVBR's Broadcast Best Finance Leaders annual ranked list and rose to EVP/CFO from Sr. VP/CFO in February 2020. Now, this Chief Financial Officer has revealed that she will soon retire — once her successor is hired and fully integrated into Sinclair Inc.
Does your broadcasting company continue to engage in diversity, equity and inclusion programs that are designed to broaden the multicultural roster of employees? Be warned: If you plan on seeking the FCC's okay for any regulatory matter, you're now under the strict scrutiny of the Carr Commission.
A presently dark FM translator covering the Northwest Arkansas communities of Springdale and Fayetteville is being sold to the entity behind a broadcast operation devoted to serving the fast-growing Spanish-speaking community in an area known as the corporate headquarters of Wal-Mart.
Read this: a Christian Talk and Teaching FM serving the Spokane market and its simulcast partner serving the Tri-Cities, Wash., market, comprised of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, are being sold by Thomas Read. Who's the buyer? Look no further than the nation's largest Christian Contemporary noncomm network.
In 2021, he became GM of WOWT-6, the NBC affiliate serving the Omaha-Council Bluffs market. It was a rise in responsibilities for an individual whose career in broadcasting began at WOW Radio in 1981. Now, he's retiring.
For 35 season, he was an integral part of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs organization, serving as Executive Producer of the Chiefs Radio Network. Described as a pillar of the community by WDAF "FOX 4," he had been battling cancer. Now, Chiefs Kingdom is mourning the loss of Dan Israel.
There's a new Director of Content for The National News Desk, and she will be tasked with overseeing the content strategy and audience engagement for the Sinclair Inc. local station newscast focused on national news stories of interest.
That's a question that Zacks Equity Research asks, and it's completed its analysis of a broadcast television station ownership group poised to differentiate itself from its peers through the launch of a massive production studio in the Atlanta area.
Before he successfully won a House seat, Mike Flood was largely known as the man behind Flood Communications, owner of radio and TV stations across Nebraska. Now, he's taking that experience as a broadcaster to the halls of Congress by teaming up with three other House Members to bring back a "Broadcasters Caucus."
She's a fan and "a big believer in the power of audio and delivering entertainment to audiences where they want it." She also happens CEO of Fox Corporation's FAST channel service Tubi. Now, this busy woman is adding another role, taking a seat on Sirius XM''s Board of Directors.
“How do you do language?” Toni Morrison asked that question, suggesting that how we use and interact with language reflects the quality and depth of our lives. "Therefore, we need to be hyper-aware of how we use our words and take responsibility for the impact they have," Rosemary Ravinal notes.
She's been GM and Director of Sales for Gray Media-owned and The E.W. Scripps Co.-managed WFLX "FOX 29" in the Palm Beaches since 2022. Now, she's returning to Kentucky to take a role as General Manager and Director of Sales for the company's properties in the Lexington and Hazard regions.
