Radio & Television Business Report

The interim News Director of WWL-TV in New Orleans has been promoted to the role of News Director for its NBC-aligned sibling in the St. Louis market — a move that shows the "hold separate" order preventing Nexstar Media Group from fully assimilating TEGNA's assets is very much being adhered to.

The FCC's Media Bureau has tossed a challenge to a deal agreed to in March that sees The E.W. Scripps Co. add the ABC affiliate serving Lexington, Ky., to its stable of broadcast TV stations. DirecTV argued the transaction would suffer direct economic harm due to higher input prices it would have to pay as a result of the sale.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has given the state's Attorney General, Rob Bonta, a boost in his quest to derail the pending merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery with the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order.

Dick Broadcasting Co. has agreed to sell the facility, once a simulcast partner of WQSL-FM, serving Jacksonville and Wilmington, N.C. The buyer? Look no further than Don Curtis, of Raleigh-based Curtis Media Group.

Are you getting bored with Netflix's viewing selections, despite its vast library of content? That's a chief concern of the streaming video Goliath as it looks ahead to forthcoming fiscal quarters, with keeping subscribers interested at all times the chief way it will continue to make a profit.

In a startling move, Audacy has announced that it will begin simulcasting "SportsTalk 610" on its highest-rated radio station in Houston, starting in mid-August. The announcement comes 24 hours after the company signed a landmark distribution agreement for its spoken word properties with SiriusXM.

Through this partnership, SalemNOW will distribute a curated collection of Kappa Studios content, expanding its library of faith-based and conservative films, documentaries, specials, and original programming available to viewers across its streaming platforms.

In addition to live game broadcasts on WKIM-FM, which serves Western Tennessee, the partnership includes promotional support, weekly features, and opportunities for fans to connect with coaches, players and the program throughout the year.

In August 2025, the publicly traded parent company of Hispanic consumer-focused Estrella Media and of venerable New York radio brands WBLS and “HOT 97” named him Chief Revenue Officer, reporting to CEO Albert Rodriguez. Now, he's rising from CRO to President as the company's Chief Financial Officer departs.

Audacy and SiriusXM have scored a landmark partnership that will bring more than 40 of Audacy’s spoken word stations across 29 markets to SiriusXM listeners nationwide. The last time broadcast radio stations appeared on satellite radio, they involved key iHeartMedia Top 40 stations and BBC Radio 1.

Submissions are now being accepted for the industry’s most prestigious sales honors, presented by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink. The ceremony is set for October 21, the first day of this year’s NAB Show New York, to be held at the Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan.

Until now, the lone way fans of the Minnesota Wild could follow live play-by-play without paying for it was via the radio. That continues via iHeartMedia's KFAN-FM with the upcoming 2026-2027. But, for those seeking to watch the games on broadcast TV, there's a forthcoming plan that's being cemented soon.

The NHL's Minnesota Wild aren't the only pro team on the ice to cement fresh game telecast arrangements set to start with the upcoming 2026-2027 season. Three other teams are making changes, and they each involve NHL Productions as the telecast producer.

There are some 68 million Hispanics in the US, but only 5% of ad budgets target this lucrative and trendsetting consumer audience. This was shared across the 2026 Hispanic Radio Conference in Phoenix in late May, and proved to be a passionate topic of discussion on the latest NASBA Broadcast Advocate podcast.

Radio and TV commercials are outperforming the average with Baby Boomers and Gen X, according to new YouGov data. The numbers point sellers toward a clear next step: layering in digital products to close the gap with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.

As the second half of 2026 begins, it has become abundantly clear that the accident attorney specialty firm founded in Orlando in 1988 by John Morgan will finish the year as the biggest advertiser using Spot TV.  Morgan & Morgan is also making a run for the crown at Spot Radio.