Pandora-Sirius Merger
A shareholder class action challenges the sale of Pandora Media to Sirius XM Holdings in a 1:1.44 stock swap valued at $3.5 billion, in Alameda County Court.
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Sirius Class Action
A class accuses Sirius XM of failing to honor the expensive lifetime subscriptions it sold to subscribers.
Read moreCopyright Suit Over Remastered Oldies Revived
CBS may yet sing the blues, after the Ninth Circuit on Monday revived a copyright lawsuit against the radio giant over its broadcast of classic songs by Al Green, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, the Turtles and many more without a license.
Read moreAlex Jones Claims Free Speech as Defense in Defamation Suit
An attorney for radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked a Texas court Wednesday to dismiss a defamation suit brought against him by the parents of Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old murdered in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Two families whose children were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School sued Alex Jones and InfoWars on Monday, claiming he defamed them by saying they were lying about their children’s deaths.
Read moreRadio Giant iHeartMedia Files Bankruptcy Plan to Reduce Debt
IHeartMedia, one of the world’s largest radio companies, is seeking bankruptcy protection as part of an agreement with its lenders to reduce debt it took on to become a privately held company.
Read moreHoward Stern Cleared in Lawsuit Over On-Air IRS Call
A federal judge threw out invasion of privacy claims against Howard Stern brought by a Massachusetts woman whose tax-related phone call with an IRS agent was inadvertently broadcast on the shock jock’s radio show.
Read morePublic Radio, Donors Revive Gothamist Websites
Public radio stations in Los Angeles, Washington and New York and two anonymous donors will revive three websites formerly part of the Gothamist Network, abruptly closed this past fall by their billionaire owner.
Read moreChurches Challenge Wisconsin City’s LGBT Ordinance
Five churches and a Christian radio station sued a Wisconsin city, claiming its recently passed nondiscrimination ordinance protecting transgender residents should not apply to them.
Read moreDon Imus Faces Age-Bias Suit for Firing Warner Wolf
Shock jock Don Imus was hit with a lawsuit Thursday by Warner Wolf, the 80-year-old sportscaster behind the catchphrase “Let’s go to the videotape!”
Read moreClear Channel Investors Contest Loans to IHeart Radio
Clear Channel shareholders brought a derivative class action over the $1 billion that the broadcast giant loaned to iHeartMedia, saying the aid was given at “far-below-market interest rates” despite Clear Channel’s own $20 billion debts.
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Newspaper Cleared on Radio Host’s Libel Claim Over KKK Label
Quoting Aesop’s fable “The Ass and the Purchaser,” a judge for the Michigan Court of Appeals wrote that “a man is known by the company he keeps” in a decision finding that the Detroit News did not defame a radio host by calling him a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Florida Supreme Court Says SiriusXM Doesn’t Have to Pay to Play Oldies
The Florida Supreme Court handed the 60s rock act The Turtles a loss on Thursday, ruling SiriusXM doesn’t have to pay royalties for playing the hits the band recorded prior to 1972.
Read moreFCC Eliminates Rule That Was Cornerstone of Local News Broadcasting
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted to eliminate a longstanding rule requiring television and radio broadcasters to maintain studios in the communities they serve.
Read moreNCAA Hoops Ref Blames Radio Station for Death Threats
Kentucky Sports Radio broadcasters went way over the line during the Wildcats’ loss to North Carolina in this year’s NCAA Elite Eight basketball game, urging fans to harass a referee and interfere with his business, and he’s received death threats because of it, the official claims in court.
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Half of Boomer & Carton Radio Duo Charged With Securities Fraud
Known on the airwaves for gabbing about gambling, sports-radio personality Craig Carton stands accused in a federal complaint Wednesday of digging himself out of debt with a $5.6 million securities fraud.
Read moreNeo-Nazi Site Sued for Defamation, Struggles to Stay Online
A Muslim-American radio host is accusing the publisher of a notorious neo-Nazi website of defaming him by falsely labeling him the “mastermind” of a deadly concert bombing in England, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreJury Finds for Taylor Swift in DJ Groping Case
An eight-member federal jury deliberated for less than five hours Monday before finding a former Denver disc jockey liable for groping singer Taylor Swift at a meet-and-greet in 2013.
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