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The iHeart Story from June 26, 2026: iHeart Media is reportedly laying off dozens of on-air positions across its 860 stations in 160 markets, controlling over 21% of the U.S. radio market! The company has been in bankruptcy since 2019. With the current downturn in radio revenue due to shifts in listening behavior and reduced ad revenue amid increased competition from other audio sources, the company is struggling to meet its sales and profit goals. It was in April that IHeart

At the recent National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, broadcasters reached a consensus that “ATSC 1.0 Must Go!” Among those involved, one of the most vocal opponents of the current digital TV broadcast format is Sinclair Broadcast Group, the former owner of central Illinois stations WICS and WICD. ATSC 1.0 is now over 20 years old and has served over-the-air TV viewers well. Certainly, the quality of the video signal is considerably better than the prev

Me, my wife and daughters after the self-installation (with help from my neighbor friend, Barry) of my C-Band Satellite Dish in 1984. Remember those big 8 to 12-foot huge satellite dishes that occupied many back yards, and even a few front yards, from the early 1980s through the early 2000s? Those were called C-band satellite dishes, which enabled consumers, like yours truly, to hijack television signals originally meant to feed cable TV systems from coast to coast to watch

DirecTV has sent comments to the Federal Communications Commission and released a new study that questions whether lifting ownership limits on station groups would actually improve local news. For years, the NAB and broadcast owners have said that the total hours of local broadcast news coverage have gone up over the past decade. A study by the NAB found that newscasts have increased by 35% of the schedule since 2011. The DirecTV study takes a different approach. It focuses o

The FCC, directed by the Trump Administration, has issued a new ruling that could significantly affect major daytime and late-night talk shows, including “The View,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and “Late Night with Steven Colbert.” The core argument here is whether this ruling is a targeted response to criticism from talk show hosts. The president, frustrated by monologue jokes, previously failed to have “Jimmy

From the November 2025, TV Time Capsule and Central Illinois' On-Line Broadcast Museum: It's easy to see that WDAN-TV wasn't serious about programming a successful TV station. It established a culture within ownership and a negative public impression of the station that would later become WICD-TV in the early 1960s, and continued as Channel 15 beginning in 1967, through ownership changes, and to today! ​ From the time that Plains Television and Milton Friedland chose to addre

Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night television on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, after being preempted indefinitely by ABC and Disney. One...

Let me explain. I've been a student of broadcasting (radio and television) my entire life, and still am. When Carson hosted "The Tonight...