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A year ago, the FCC said it wouldn’t set a firm end date for ATSC 1.0. Sinclair is asking it to change course and issue a sunset order, and that has the low-power TV world on alert. The LPTV Broadcasters Association is now telling the FCC to keep its stations out of any potential mandate.

Outstanding contributions to broadcast engineering, digital leadership and technical innovation will be honored

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The people who keep broadcasting on the air, and the ones pushing its technology into the future, will once again get their chance to shine in fabulous Las Vegas as the National Association of Broadcasters has opened nominations for the 2027 NAB Technology Awards.

The name is familiar to most, but the face is especially familiar to Sinclair Boise, as Jennifer Lopez returns to the station group to serve as Vice President and General Manager of KBOI, KYUU, and KNIN. She makes the move after serving as General Sales Manager of KOMO/KUNS in Seattle since 2023.

Granted the application to assign license of WBSF(TV), Bay City, MI from a subsidiary of Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation to a subsidiary of Sinclair, Inc.

Letter Order denying Clarity Telecom, LLC's waiver request, dismissing its Auction 105 long-form application, and providing notice and a demand for payment of its interim default payment obligation for licenses won in Auction 105

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Providing notice and a demand for payment of the interim default payment obligation for Max Frequency LLC for construction permits won in Auction 109

Shae Hopkins, who rose from a temporary pledge production job to the top post at Kentucky Educational Television, has died. Public television leaders are remembering the 40-year KET veteran, who had planned to retire at the end of this year after nearly 17 years leading the network.

Issued a Forfeiture Order to Green River City Television in the amount of $150 for violations of Commission rules.

Ismael Faro, former VP of Quantum and AI at IBM, has partnered with a visual effects artist and engineer who has worked at Industrial Light & Magic and Apple, and a builder of cloud and high-performance computing infrastructure at HPE and Fujitsu to bring to market an AI-fueled ad creation platform.

FOX’s television business carried the company to a record fiscal first quarter, with the World Cup, a busy political calendar, and Tubi’s growth lifting broadcast advertising. The gains pushed company revenue and EBITDA to first-quarter highs and left the Television segment far ahead of last year.

Select Beantown listeners could soon hear something different on 104.5 XLO (WXLO). Cumulus Media plans to bring ZoneCasting to the station in the first quarter of 2027. In partnership with Aktira, Cumulus says the approach lets the station serve specific parts of Greater Boston

The Chief Telecommunications Counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee is headed back to the FCC, this time to run the Space Bureau, where Chairman Brendan Carr says she will play a key role in advancing America’s leadership in connectivity, technology, and national security.

It’s for women building careers in engineering, production or tech ops

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The average radio listener chooses 2-3 radio stations in a month, the company said

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