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New data showcasing the United States’ largest radio market demonstrates how influential broadcast radio is to the automotive industry — even in a metropolitan area where mass transit and ride-share services are often the common mode of transportation.

S&P Global Ratings has assigned a series of issue-level ratings and recovery ratings in response to a "liquidity enhancing" deal Sinclair Inc. announced earlier this month. And, the credit watchdog largely believes the publicly traded company is doing the right thing.

An emu can't fly, but Liberty Mutual Insurance is soaring ahead in the ever-competitive auto insurance specialist category when it comes to advertising activity at Spot Cable. That's the latest takeaway from the Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report for the week ending January 26, 2025.

The audio media company focused on the U.S. Hispanic consumer founded by José Villafañe has hired an individual who most recently served as President/CEO of Hispanic digital media brand MundoNow as its Chief Innovation Officer.

He's been heralded as "an industry change-maker and strategic operator." Now, this individual is in the role of Chief Data and Analytics Officer and Head of Measurement at Comscore.

Nielsen, the audience measurement, data and analytics Goliath, has reached a new multi-year renewal agreement with the radio and television licensee under majority control of Apollo Global Management.

The owner of radio stations in Kansas City and Pittsburgh has agreed to a digital advertising partnership with publicly traded Townsquare Media. Details of the arrangement were distributed early Monday.

Live graphics specialist Singular.live has forged a partnership with a digital video platform created to power "TV Everywhere" and OTT offerings for broadcasters and media companies for both live streaming and video-on-demand. The arrangement brings broadcast quality graphics to Akta's FLEX channel playout in the cloud.

Winning new business from a forthcoming private FM licensing initiative across India will be a critical business growth focus for an individual whose resume includes stops at AJA Video Systems and Imagine Communications.

Ira Keltz is the new acting chief engineer

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