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Behind every headline, there’s a delicate dance between advertisers, broadcasters, and the message itself. Who keeps the lights on in democracy? A Forecast 2025 session featuring NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt and Ad Fontes Media's Lou Paskalis is poised to bring in-person attendees a discussion one can't miss.

They note trends in listening to ad-supported audio including radio

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David Chan’s company will represent its products in Southeast Asia

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The American Association of Professional Baseball club carrying on the heritage of a storied Negro League franchise has signed a deal that will bring every home game in the 2025 season from Legends Field to viewers via a Gray Media broadcast TV station available across the market.

A 1kw Class C AM serving the Lancaster-Palmdale, Calif., area to the north of Los Angeles is being acquired by a local operator from a Nevada LLC associated with the owner of stations along California's Central Coast.

LPTV entrepreneur Jeff Winemiller is at it again, and this time he's signed off on a facilities swap with the licensee led by Randall Weiss. When all is said and done, Winemiller's Lowcountry 34 Media will be the owner of a property serving Atlantic City, N.J.

A "sports-first" live TV streaming platform trying to put the kibosh on a planned launch of the Venu Sports platform from The Walt Disney Co., Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery has secured a rights agreement with the company that owns such over-the-air stations as KFAA-29 in Dallas, KONG-16 in Seattle and flagship property WUSA-9 in Washington, D.C.

As RBR+TVBR was first to report on Monday, Nexstar Media Group has signed an agreement that, pending FCC regulatory approval, will give it a duopoly in the Cleveland market. We now know how many millions of dollars the company will pay to acquire the television station licensed to Akron, Ohio, in a deal brokered by Kalil & Co.

So, are you so over that "We Pay The Max" pre-roll ad one sees when accessing streaming audio on one major platform? Perhaps fresh data from a "Viewer Experience Lab" initiative is of importance to both the agency who create the spot, and the media company in control of what's shown.

Station will be scheduled and automated with AI in the cloud

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This document amends the Table of FM Allotments, of the Federal Communications Commission's (Commission) rules, by allotting Channel 284A at Huntley, Montana, as the community's first local service. To accommodate the allotment, we modify the license of KYSX, Billings, Montana to specify operation on Channel 286A in lieu of Channel 283C1. A staff engineering analysis reveals that Channel 284A can be allotted to Huntley, Montana, consistent with the minimum distance separation requirements of the Commission's rules with a site restriction of 13.9 km (8.6 miles) north of the community.

Aeranti-Corallo calls for additional frequencies

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The publicly traded company that controls Estrella Media's radio and TV properties and is the owner of WQHT "Hot 97" and WBLS in New York has a new Chief Operating Officer as Albert Rodriguez has assumed interim Chief Executive Officer duties, a SEC filing reveals.

Marc Yablonka shares his lifelong journey with the broadcast medium

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From July to September 2024, listeners spent 67% of their daily time with ad-supported audio with radio, 18% with podcasts, 11% with streaming audio services and 3% with satellite radio. That's a key takeaway from the latest Edison Research Share of Ear report card presented in partnership with Nielsen.

For some 50 consecutive years, the Grammy Awards telecast could be seen on CBS. A 10-year contract renewal signed in July 2016 between the network and the Recording Academy signaled the continuation of a long-standing deal, establishing a record for its duration. Come 2026, that historic relationship will come to its conclusion. 

The Arlington, Va., diversified company that once owned The Washington Post through its historical ties to the late Katharine Graham has released its third quarter earnings report. How did the Graham Media Group unit perform?