This week the Commission passed, by unanimous voice vote, its proposal for streamlining its foreign ownership rules for broadcast stations. The changes include requirements that applicants with reportable foreign ownership to provide information on ownership, network operations, and related matters…
Congress has unanimously amended the Senate-approved Communications Act update (S. 253), but has thrown in eight other bills, including the FCC Process Reform Act (H.R. 2583), the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act (H.R. 734), the Amateur Radio Parity Act (H.R. 1301),…
Attorney and longtime FCC critic Andrew Jay Schwartzman has filed a letter on behalf of a quartet of public-interest groups—Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Sunlight Foundation, and Benton Foundation—alleging that the FCC is failing to enforce its public file and…
The NAB Marconi Awards Dinner & Show, during the Radio Show in Nashville, showcased outstanding radio stations and personalities. The winners include WINS, New York (Legendary Station); Delilah (Network/Syndicated Personality); Brent Carl Flesman, WHUB, Cookeville, TN (Small Market Personality); WKDZ,…
RAB and NAB announced that the total number of registered attendees for the 2016 Radio Show was 2,272. This compares to 2,170 attendees at the 2015 Radio Show in Atlanta, and is the largest attendance figure since the RAB and…
Following the trend of conventions in industries of every kind, the Radio Show live streamed a number of sessions—but the much-ballyhooed archives of those sessions are, as of this writing, conspicuously absent. (We expect that they’ll be up in the…
According to a new NuVoodoo study, nearly half of likely ratings participants believe it’s true. Among 18-44-year-olds the unbelievers reach almost 55%. Among those who think contests are rigged, they understand why contests are there in the first place (to…
The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), working with the NAB and using data compiled by ABI Research, has published sales data showing the extent of FM chip penetration in the top-selling smartphones for Canada, Mexico and the U.S. for the…
A class action lawsuit is being mounted against Sirius XM Radio over the definition of “lifetime subscriptions.” According to the court filing, “Sirius XM systematically advertised and sold lifetime subscriptions to consumers by leading consumers to believe that such lifetime…
CMT-TV is recognizing Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett, Chris Stapleton and Carrie Underwood as “Artists of the Year,” featured on the TV special of the same name, slated to air on the Country Music Television channel on Thursday,…
Media Monitors is following political spending on radio in 85 major markets, and for the week of September 2-11, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson led the field with 17,499 ads. In the number two position, Trump-supporting Liberty Action Group PAC ran…
Baseball play-by-play legend Vin Scully will end 67 years at the mic with the LA Dodgers season ender on October 2, passing on the opportunity to call the Dodgers playoff games. Scully says, “I’m going to say goodbye at Dodger…
