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The 119th Congress is in session, and that means any bill that languished in the last legislative period is dead — short of it being brought back to life. For the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, its two main champions in the U.S. Senate have brought the proposed legislation back from the scrap heap.

The nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations, the NewsNation cable TV network and WGN Radio in Chicago is hiking its quarterly cash dividend by 10%, ahead of its Q4 and year-end 2024 results reveal.

Black audiences spend 32 hours on apps and websites on their smartphones and tablets —two hours more than the total U.S. population. Meanwhile, Radio averages the same weekly reach with Black adults as connected TV, with each media reaching 27.4 million Black adults in an average week.

He joined the company today known as Salem Media Group with the launch of KPRZ-AM in San Diego at the end of 1984 before taking leadership of a property it assumed control of in Washington, D.C., on a snowy February morning in 1992. David Ruleman is now being remembered, as the veteran executive has died.

Premion, the TEGNA-owned Connected TV/OTT advertising platform designed for regional and local advertisers, is partnering with GDB Brazil to bring its Octillion Demand Side Platform to the largest Portuguese-language market in the world.

A search is underway for a permanent replacement

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SXM-9 is the 10th high-powered, digital audio radio satellite built by Maxar Space Systems for SiriusXM and is built on the Maxar 1300 platform. The SXM-9 is more than 27 feet tall and over 100 feet long with its solar arrays deployed, and weighed almost 6,400 kg at launch.

A Class C3 Country station serving a string of communities to the north of Houston will stay in the family, pending FCC approval of a plan that transfers control of "KStar Country" from its owner to his daughter.

The TV broadcasting company led by Patricia and Brian Lane has struck a deal to purchase stations in two small West Coast markets from Imagicomm. How much Marquee Broadcasting is paying Imagicomm for the stations once owned by Brian Brady's Northwest Broadcasting will remain a public mystery.

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