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 laid off many...

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 previous NTSC signal,...

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 in our own homes....