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As vote heads to Senate, public broadcasters face real federal funding threat

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By a mere two votes, the full House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon approved the Rescissions Act of 2025, a move considered a victory for the Trump Administration in its quest to curtail all government funding of public broadcast organizations PBS and NPR.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved Rogers Communications' agreement to acquire broadcast media rival Bell Media’s interest in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, through the NBA TV Canada arm.

In mid-May, Chelan Valley Media Group revealed that it had found a buyer for its radio stations in eastern Washington, with Greg Guy at Tideline Partners serving as the broker. Now, it can be told how much the company is pocketing from the sale of the properties.

Mud Radio was just over one month late with its license renewal application. Why? It was due to an "inadvertent oversight." Now, the Audio Division Chief of the FCC's Media Bureau is willing to resolve the matter with a Consent Decree. And, it sees the licensee of a Vermont FM pay a civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury to wipe its slate clean.

Daytona Beach application was filed under one name, but nonprofit registration said another

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U.S. ad market prospects have been cut by half a point by WARC, as its global growth forecasts for advertising spend have been downgraded further this year. This follows an initial $20 billion cut seen in March by the research firm.

Since the end of May, the FCC's lone Democratic Commissionerhas traveled to California to meet with television studio executives, labor unions in the entertainment sector, and companies in the space industry. The purpose of these visits by Anna M. Gomez? To learn first hand of broadcasters' challenges.

Video software provider Synamedia's Media Edge Gateway (MEG), an ATSC 3.0 software-based IRD, now supports Device Security requirements as specified by ATSC 3.0 Security Authority’s (A3SA).

It is a locally owned radio station launched in 1994 to target the growing Hispanic population in Memphis. Now, it is scrambling to resume over-the-air broadcasts of its AM radio station after becoming the victim of copper theft at its transmitter.