A staffer at an ABC affiliate in Georgia tweeted that 2018 would be the network’s last year to broadcast IndyCar races, including the Indy 500. That would put NBC in the driver’s seat, according to earlier remarks by IndyCar boss Mark Miles.
While it might appear that Jeff Smulyan is preparing to either liquidate or parachute out of the company he founded in 1979, he says that couldn’t be further from the truth.
The San Antonio-based company is the second major radio player in the Indianapolis market to seek bankruptcy protection in recent months. In November, Atlanta-based Cumulus Media filed for Chapter 11.
The political network backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch is planning to step up its advertising to unseat Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Donnelly of Indiana, who are seen as vulnerable.
The tournament has become so big that sports experts doubt a federal investigation alleging dozens of prominent players, coaches and schools broke NCAA rules will hurt sponsor support.
Former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning sold 31 Denver-area Papa John's stores last week, three days before the NFL replaced the chain as its official pizza sponsor.
A private-investigations firm hired by Peyton Manning’s lawyers is facing a broadcaster’s petition to turn over information it uncovered about a documentary.
Fox 59 and CBS4 in Indianapolis are shopping for a new weather and traffic personality after losing one to a Fox affiliate in Tampa, Florida.
The case involves a probe Phenix Investigations Inc. conducted in 2015 after former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and other star athletes were accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.
Republican Mike Braun said he didn’t expect the negative reaction the commercial received.
The San Antonio-based company would be the second major radio station owner in the Indianapolis market to file for Chapter 11 in recent months. Atlanta-based Cumulus Media filed in November.
Hopes within the series are high that it can land a future broadcast agreement in the next month or so and a title sponsor before the season concludes in September.
The NFL announced a multiyear marketing deal with Pizza Hut on Wednesday, one day after the league and Papa John’s said that they mutually agreed to cut ties.
The NFL partnership has been strained since Papa John’s founder John Schnatter slammed the league in November, saying that declining ratings had hurt sales. He also said that Commissioner Roger Goodell mishandled the national anthem controversy.
Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. said it will use proceeds from the sales to pay down debt.
Deb Monroe, the widow of driver Jeffrey Monroe, said U.S. Senate candidate Mike Braun should take his ad dealing with illegal immigration off the TV airwaves.
A fixture on Channel 6’s morning news team since 2001 is leaving the station to become a communications manager at Community Health Network.
Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson found that former employee Kristine Esser Slentz "failed to demonstrate that the alleged harassment was severe or pervasive enough to rise to the level of a hostile work environment.”
Over the past 12 years, Todd Rokita has spent roughly $3 million in public money on media campaigns, mailers and other forms of mass communication, usually ramping up the spending before appearing on a ballot, a review found.
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