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UPDATED – Top TV Station Groups In 2022

UPDATED – Top TV Station Groups in 2022

  • August 18, 2023
  • Suzanne Ackley

Nexstar stays on top, Gray is back, and TEGNA drops a spot. We have updated our original list based on financial reports filed by some of the publicly traded group owners, our proprietary survey of broadcasters, and also a full…

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Don’t Overlook Local Political Advertising Spend In 2023; Key Issues & Races Driving Spend Now

Don’t Overlook Local Political Advertising Spend in 2023; Key Issues & Races Driving Spend Now

  • August 17, 2023
  • Suzanne Ackley

We all expect political advertising spend to go off the charts in 2024, but before then, there is spending to capture now with key issues and elections fueling early spending. Let's start with the spend estimates first. With the 2023…

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BIA Launches MAPro Breeze, A Web Application Built On The Foundation Of MEDIA Access Pro™

BIA Launches MAPro Breeze, a Web Application Built on the Foundation of MEDIA Access Pro™

  • June 21, 2023
  • MacKenzie Lovings

BIA’s MEDIA Access Pro™ (MAPro) has long been recognized as the premier resource for broadcast information, delivering thousands of fields of data on television and radio organizations. The BIA team is proud to continuously serve a large customer base that…

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IHeartMedia Is The Top-Billing Radio Owner In 2022

iHeartMedia is the Top-Billing Radio Owner in 2022

  • May 9, 2023
  • Suzanne Ackley

Recently, we released our annual list with the Top 10 Radio Stations by over-the-air revenue. Now, let's look through the filter of radio station owners and see who made it onto the top billing list for 2022. First, it's worth…

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Hubbard Radio’s WTOP-FM Is Top Billing Radio Station In 2022

Hubbard Radio’s WTOP-FM is Top Billing Radio Station in 2022

  • May 4, 2023
  • Suzanne Ackley

In an announcement that should surprise no one in the radio industry, BIA today announced that Hubbard Radio, LLC’s WTOP-FM in Washington, DC continued its winning streak in 2022 and was once again the top-billing radio station. If you're keeping…

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Online Gambling – A Continuing Boost For Local Media

Online Gambling – A Continuing Boost for Local Media

  • August 16, 2022
  • Mark Dugan

Over the last few years, online gambling has been delivering a tremendous lift to local media and it has quickly developed into a strong category for Local TV and Radio in particular.  With the potential of more states, such as…

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Legal Services Ad Spend Surpassing 2020, 2021 Growth In Digital

Legal Services Ad Spend Surpassing 2020, 2021 Growth in Digital

  • August 12, 2022
  • Suzanne Ackley

The pandemic hit Legal Services' local advertising spend hard in 2020 dropping from $7B in 2019 to only $5B in 2020. 2022 shows a healthy rebound with 2022 local ad spend forecast to surpass its pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Legal Services…

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Leading Local Insights:  NAB Leadership Foundation Creating The Next Generation Of Broadcast Leaders

Leading Local Insights: NAB Leadership Foundation Creating the Next Generation of Broadcast Leaders

  • June 24, 2022
  • Mark Dugan

Michelle Duke, President of the NAB’s Leadership Foundation and the NAB’s Chief Diversity Officer, recently joined Nicole Ovadia, BIA's VP of Forecasting and Analysis for a Leading Local Insights podcast interview. Michelle has been with the NAB since 2005 and…

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Radio Buyers With DEI Goals Can Now Target Black Owned Radio For Local Ads

Radio Buyers With DEI Goals Can Now Target Black Owned Radio for Local Ads

  • June 9, 2022
  • Rick Ducey

As part of welcome and burgeoning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, marketers and agencies are making commitments to invest more of their ad spending in minority owned media. The problem has been finding a definitive listing of these media. According…

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Before And After COVID – A Look At Legal Services Local Ad Spending

Before and After COVID – A Look at Legal Services Local Ad Spending

  • March 28, 2022
  • Suzanne Ackley

In the latest episode of BIA’s Leading Local Insights podcast, Before and After COVID - A Look at Legal Services Local Ad Spending, BIA's Senior Research Analyst Suzanne Ackley examines the ad spend and media selections of businesses in the legal services…

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Leading Local Insights: Racial Justice In Media As Explained By Bob Branson, Pres/CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council

Leading Local Insights: Racial Justice in Media as Explained by Bob Branson, Pres/CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council

  • October 25, 2021
  • Rick Ducey

Bob Branson joined the Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council (MMTC) as president and CEO in June 2021 and recently sat down with BIA for an episode of our Leading Local Insights podcast series. Branson brings to MMTC his deep…

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Mid-Term Elections Expected To Bolster Local Broadcast TV Ad Revenues In 2022

Mid-Term Elections Expected to Bolster Local Broadcast TV Ad Revenues in 2022

  • October 4, 2021
  • Suzanne Ackley

BIA is forecasting that ad spend on local television will be $21 billion in 2022, with $19.3 billion going towards over-the-air television ads and $1.7 billion going to digital television ads. This is an increase of 26.5% from 2021 local…

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Leading Local Insights: What’s Happening In Automotive?

Leading Local Insights: What’s Happening in Automotive?

  • August 26, 2021
  • Suzanne Ackley

In the latest episode of BIA’s podcast, Leading Local Insights, Ad Spend Estimates and Trends for the Automotive Vertical (Part 1), BIA industry analyst Suzanne Ackley examines the ad spend and media selections of businesses in the automotive vertical. For 2021,…

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Leading Local Insights: For Healthcare, Traditional Media Still Leads Local Ad Spend

Leading Local Insights: For Healthcare, Traditional Media Still Leads Local Ad Spend

  • August 10, 2021
  • Suzanne Ackley

In the latest episode of BIA's podcast, Leading Local Insights, Ad Spend Estimates and Trends for the Healthcare Vertical, BIA industry analyst Suzanne Ackley examines the ad spend and media selections of businesses in the Healthcare vertical. For 2021, BIA…

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Local TV Advertising Will See a Strong Recovery in 2021

  • December 17, 2020
  • Suzanne Ackley

The $15.7 billion BIA is estimating in ad spend for local television (broadcast and online), while down from 2020 levels of $16.8 billion, represents a strong recovery for the media when you remove the unprecedented amounts of political ad spend.…

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Top 3 Verticals For Local Ad Spend Growth In 2021

Top 3 Verticals for Local Ad Spend Growth in 2021

  • December 10, 2020
  • Suzanne Ackley

In early December, BIA released its 2021-2025 local advertising spend forecast. The five-year forecast examines the ad spend by 12 vertical categories that consist of 95 sub-verticals across 16 media. Overall, BIA is forecasting that local ad spend will increase…

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U.S. Local Advertising Will Start to Rebound in 2021

  • December 3, 2020
  • Suzanne Ackley

BIA Advisory Services estimates total local advertising revenue across all media in the U.S. will reach $137.5 billion in 2021, up 2.5 percent year-over-year from $134.1 billion in 2020. Even without the presence of significant political advertising, BIA expects this…

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Legal Services Ad Spend Rebounds in 2021

  • October 7, 2020
  • Suzanne Ackley

2020 has seen an overall drop in ad spend for Legal Services advertising in 2020, but five of the 17 media channels in BIA's forecast (from August 2020) will actually see growth in ad spend in 2020. Looking ahead to…

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Assessing The Pandemic And Your Potential For Success

Assessing the Pandemic and Your Potential for Success

  • June 10, 2020
  • Thomas Buono

In the last several weeks, we have had incredible marketplace discussions with business leaders who have described the pandemic alternately as an accelerator, a suppressor and some as both, depending on their perspective. Certainly, the pandemic has changed the way…

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Can Political Buffer Local TV Advertising From Significant Declines In Other Vertical Categories?

Can Political Buffer Local TV Advertising from Significant Declines in Other Vertical Categories?

  • May 21, 2020
  • Suzanne Ackley

BIA has lowered its 2Q 2020 forecast for local media advertising. BIA is now forecasting that local TV ad spend in 2020 will be $18.5 billion, with $17 billion attributable to over-the-air revenue and $1.5 billion for digital revenue. BIA…

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