RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast

For the second consecutive year, the Radio+Television Business Report is teaming up with Media Staffing Network for an exclusive Sales Compensation Study. Friday, July 23 is now the final day one can participate by taking the survey. We know that sales teams have endured many challenges over the past year. What is perhaps the biggest visible change at broadcast TV that Laurie Kahn, CEO for Media S...

Crossings TV can be found over the air on low-power TV station KBTV-8 in Sacramento; on Comcast Xfinity systems in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Francisco and Seattle-Tacoma; and on Charter Spectrum systems in Los Angeles in New York — some of the nation’s biggest Asian American population centers. Why did Frank Washington, founder and CEO of the Sacramento-based channel, and COO Daniel Sakay...

How has the advertising landscape evolved in Northern California? What's the sense of "new normal" client activity, in particular for Spanish-language radio? The return of live events is a big deal. Automotive is on the rebound. Those are just some of the takeaways from Angie Balderas, the SVP of Integrated Marketing Solutions at Entravision Communications in Sacramento. She's the latest guest in...

With severe weather already impacting the U.S. as a tropical storm impacts the Southeast and extreme temperatures impacted much of the West Coast of the nation, how important is it for a local television station to invest in weather? That's just one question we asked Wes Wyatt, who will become the Chief Meteorologist at Gray Television-owned FOX affiliate WBRC-6 in Birmingham come July 26. What el...

The end of the 2021 fiscal year is ending tomorrow for many companies. For others, it marks the first half of a year in which broadcast media transactions have yielded A Tale of Two Signals. For over-the-air broadcast TV, huge deals have come to fruition since the start of the year. For AM and FM radio, nary a deal that doesn't involve a religious institution has been had. What's to come? Veteran...

Tom Birch is the President of North Carolina-based Lakes Media LLC and an industry veteran who come July 5 will beta test an innovative subscription app that is being hyped up as a potential game-changer for the radio industry. It allows for commercial-free subscription based listening of broadcast radio stations. Who would pay for what is available for free, even if the commercials are deleted? A...

On Thursday (6/17), television industry executives will once again be gathering in a virtual manner. While COVID-19 pandemic concerns are rapidly melting away, the organizers of the annual Kagan Media Summit opted to forego traveling to New York just yet. The comfort level of participants will undoubtedly be higher, as the 2020 affair was a digital one, too. With the Radio + Television Business Re...

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Here is an audio recap of all of the stories appearing at RBR.com, freshly prepared for the afternoon of June 8 and morning of June 9, 2021. You can find these stories every business day following the Closing Bell on Wall Street in the RBR+TVBR Daily Headlines Email and at RBR.com. Due to ongoing internet connectivity issues across June 8, the third-party distributor of the RBR+TVBR Daily Headline...

He was honored by the readers of the Radio + Television Business Report as one of Broadcast Television’s Best Leaders. As he looks back on the last year, what’s the biggest sense of pride Mike Meara, President of NPG Broadcasting, has across the company’s TV stations? Meara joins RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson in this new InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot. FM, to discuss the continued ro...

Many know him as the face of Wedel Software. Now, he’s the CEO of a brand-new ad sales platform for radio advertising called Adthos. Raoul Wedel joins RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson from the Dutch city of The Hague to share more about the new product release. How does Adthos from what is presently available in the marketplace? The Adthos Ad-Server is free ... so how does Wedel make money...

In mid-March, a Dallas-based entertainment and e-sports company founded in 2007 snagged a multimillion-dollar investment from one of broadcast television’s biggest owner groups, Gray Television. In this InFOCUS Podcast, that company's CEO, Adam Rymer, answers key questions many including our editor-in-chief has, about eSports and its future, in particular for those on Wall Street seeking a real re...

In-person conferences are back on the schedule, with IBC on May 25 confirming it will stage a 2021 show in December, postponing it from September rather than scratching it off the calendar or going with an all-virtual presentation. Ahead of that event, in late August, is a state broadcasters' association conference that promises to be one of the more dynamic post-pandemic gatherings leading up to...

Colin Benedict, the Vice President of News for radio and TV station owner Morgan Murphy Media, played an integral role in the planning and execution of an effort across all of the multimedia company’s markets to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. How did the initial idea for a “Vaccine Day” effort originate, and then pollinate? What does this effort say about the role that local TV stations, in part...

To some broadcast industry observers, it seems that nearly every day a new transaction is reported by RBR+TVBR, a non-secular, non-profit buyer is grabbing a radio station. Is it our imagination, or have broadcast ministries taken advantage of the pandemic by going on a buying binge? Jon Yinger, President and CEO of The Christian Broadcasting System and Broadcast Properties LLC, shares his perspec...

Jay Meyers, the veteran broadcast media executive who today serves as President/CEO of Broadcast Management and Technology, was in the news this week for his role as the broker in the sale of two radio stations to the operators of "The Joy FM." This gave RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson to connect with Meyers and discuss the state of the industry today from the eyes of a former PD, ex-Clea...

Mike Woods joined Amagi right before the pandemic in February of 2020 as SVP of Product. In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot. FM, Woods shares how the cloud-based automation, playout, and delivery tool company is working with broadcast media companies so they can benefit, not fret, over digital video delivery platform growth.

News, in Spanish, credible news, has become essential to people’s lives. How is CNN en Español meeting this challenge in the U.S. as a global news organization? SVP and Managing Director Cynthia Hudson shares all with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot. FM.

It’s that time of year again, and the IAB NewFronts are upon us already. Upfront presentations the week of May 17 already dotting the calendar. Hispanic-targeted LATV is right in the thick of it, offering a platform self-described as “The Latino Voices Redefining Culture.” Today's LATV is quite different than what existed a decade ago. How does one define what LATV is today, and its primary value...

In November 2013, a veteran of Interep with time at Katz Radio Group and MacGavren Guild was promoted after 3 1/2 years as GSM, of a group of stations serving New York's Mid-Hudson Valley. Today, Bruce Feniger remains in command of the Pamal Broadcasting stations, including two 50kw heritage FMs that continue to command large audiences. In this exclusive conversation, Feniger shares on the latest ...

On the eve of RBR+TVBR's arrival as Editor-in-Chief, Adam R Jacobson met with Pacific Media Group CEO Chuck Bergson at the company's headquarters in Kahului, on the Hawaiian island of Maui. In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot. FM, Jacobson catches up with Bergson, gaining insight into whether or not COVID-19 curbed rapid growth for the company, which today is the only radio station owner wit...

As people’s habits continue to evolve, with the pandemic accelerating those changes, Broadbeam Media conducted research that reevaluates, in a way, assumptions about the lifestyles and media habits of U.S. consumers. Among the key finds is that linear TV – a.k.a. broadcast and cable channels – remains the most-often watched media. But, social video is close behind, and just behind that is YouTube...

Cheryl McHenry, the veteran anchor and reporter at Cox Media Group’s CBS affiliate serving Ohio’s Miami Valley, WHIO-7 in Dayton, will soon celebrate 40 years at the dominant TV station. She first covered the courts, and in June 1991 moved to the anchor desk. In the last two years, McHenry has covered COVID-19, social justice protests, devastating tornadoes and a mass shooting in the Oregon Distri...

Spanish Broadcasting System EVP/Programming Jesus Salas shares how the company's radio stations gained audience across the COVID-19 pandemic and has kept it, while also giving a preview as to what else SBS has in store for the rest of the year in this episode of the RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot. FM.

To be honest, if you send any info on embargo that will be presented on May 6, I will likely go with this, and then simply need the follow up with Jason -- the event itself, aside from photo captures, is an event due to deadlines for my work at RBR I may not be able to even attend. And, if history proves correct, I can get everything shared ahead of time.