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Randy J. Stine
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Streaming video has rapidly become the most critical source of digital growth for local broadcast television. In 2024, Connected TV and over-the-top advertising surged to nearly 30% of all digital revenue at local stations, up from approximately 10% the prior year, according to Borrell Associates’ 2025 Annual Digital Benchmarking Report. Borrell estimates that local TV […]
Cameron Coats
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With the FIFA Club World Cup and the Concacaf Gold Cup on the horizon, Disney Entertainment and TelevisaUnivision have announced a new multiregion streaming video distribution agreement aimed at expanding access to Spanish-language programming in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Cameron Coats
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MediaCo is strengthening its foothold in television and streaming after its Estrella asset acquisition, reshaping its leadership team with a trio of executive sales appointments to handle national and local revenue generation as the broadcaster expands its FAST offerings to include new takes on legacy assets.
Cameron Coats
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Emergency Alert System hardware vendor Digital Alert Systems has issued a strong rebuttal to the NAB, defending its opposition to a proposed FCC rulemaking that would allow software-based EAS processing. In formal reply comments, the company refutes NAB's argument that the company's concerns are grounded in commercial self-interest.
Cameron Coats
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Salem Radio Network syndicated host Mark Walters was the first to file a defamation complaint linked to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in June 2023, just months after the chatbot's public launch. Now that closely watched lawsuit has come to its conclusion, marking an early precedent in the legal scrutiny of generative artificial intelligence.
Cameron Coats
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Radio One Buffalo owner Buddy Shula is giving a flag-waving rebrand to his latest AM acquisition as he prepares to launch a new format on the signal. The FCC has approved a call letter change for WHLD-AM in Niagara Falls, New York. Effective with a Local Marketing Agreement starting June 1, the station will officially identify as WUSW.
Cameron Coats
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Sinclair Television Group has exercised a long-standing purchase option to acquire KMEG in Sioux City, along with its associated translators in Nebraska and northern Iowa, from Waitt Broadcasting. The transaction formalizes a relationship that has been guided by a Shared Services Agreement between the two companies since 2005.
Cameron Coats
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Hispanic Radio Conference 2025 is coming to Houston June 11–12, and early bird pricing wraps up Tuesday, May 27 at 12:01a ET, immediately following the Memorial Day weekend. Register before the deadline to secure the lowest available rate for the industry’s premier gathering focused on Hispanic radio’s future.
Cameron Coats
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She's the former Market President and Publisher of Pacific Business News and led the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Now, Pacific Media Group has tapped her as General Manager of its Honolulu Radio Operations, overseeing Oʻahu stations 102.7 da Bomb, 105.9 The Wave FM, HI93, and 94.7 KUMU.
Cameron Coats
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The 2025 New York Festivals Storytellers Gala honored the best in television, film, and radio during a virtual ceremony on May 22, recognizing outstanding work across genres, formats, and platforms from more than two dozen countries. In television, Al Jazeera English was named Broadcaster of the Year for the ninth consecutive year.
Cameron Coats
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BIA Advisory Services is bringing back a familiar face as it deepens its commitment to political media strategy and cross-platform advertising analytics. The firm has announced that veteran media analyst Steve Passwaiter has rejoined the company as a Senior Advisor.
Cameron Coats
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RW Staff
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In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved revisions to the information collection requirements under OMB Control Number 3060-1034, as associated with the amended adopted in the Federal Communications Commission's First Report and Order: Rules for FM Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems, FCC 24-105 (FM Digital First R&O). This FM Digital First R&O permits the operation of digital FM stations with asymmetric power levels on the digital sidebands and the accompanying use of FCC 2100, Schedule 335-FM to notify the Commission of such operations. This document is consistent with the FM Digital First R&O, which states that the Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date for these amended rule sections and revise the rules accordingly.
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Nick Langan
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Paul McLane
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Commissioner Geoffrey Starks makes his departure announcement from the FCC along with remarks from Carr, Simington and Gomez.
Michi Bradley
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Elle Kehres