Vital Media Statistics

For the 97 news outlets whose primary domain, its website, averaged at least 10 million unique visitors per month, traffic rose 11% in the fourth quarter of 2020. That's according to a fresh Pew Research Center analysis of the state of the U.S. news media.

The stock market, for the most part, was kind to the broadcast industry as a whole.

The final week of July 2015 is not going to go down in the annals of broadcast station trading

Here it is – the sixth and final installment of our in-depth look at the car preferences of radio and TV fans, this time focusing on older television viewers. The purpose of this is to help television stations sell ads to people in the automobile business; and conversely, for people in the automobile business to make informed decisions about ad placement.

Newspapers remain a key part of the food chain in the business of disseminating news and information. They may be hurting, but they are...

As any program executive will tell you, one of the hardest things in the world

Dealers of broadcast licenses are not on a path to break any records this year

No matter how loyal they might be, it is highly unlikely that your primary TV fans watch your particular genre all the time. So where are they when they tune elsewhere? This is a very good thing to know for a number of reasons, and thanks to the research wizards at Prosper Insights and analytics, we can pinpoint viewing habits four you. Today we look at middle-skewing TV audiences.

Station trading in December was almost entirely on the radio side...

Two television deals accounted for most of the trading value during the month.

As of Sept. 30 there are 1,778 UHF and VHF stations and 15,508 licensed AM and FM radio stations on the air in the U.S.

It was a record-breaking revenue year for BMI, which just concluded fiscal 2019. But, don't mistakenly believe the surge in dollars came from radio or from television. BMI's growth is largely thanks to cable and satellite services -- and digital audio services, too.

A research firm created "to focus specifically on the intersection of technology and entertainment" has just released the latest findings from an annual study tracking the TV sources consumers consider their "go-to" viewing platform. The results, according to Hub Entertainment Research? Multiplatform use is continuing to rise, and there's a steady move away from live TV as a default source. We've got a "famous" RBR+TVBR OBSERVATION on this to share.

New data from the Edison Research Share of Earstudy, conducted during the period of COVID-19 disruptions, shows that people in the U.S. age 13 and older began listening to audio a full 75 minutes later on average, as compared to before the disruptions.

Here is the final group of radio charts in our massive hunt for radio fans when they’re surfing channels on the local cable system. We’ve looked at young and middle-aged audiences for both radio and television and next week we’ll check out older TV fans. To do this, we tap into the massive database of Prosper Insights and Analytics to do this. We think you’ll find the information both fascinating and useful.