Brendan Carr has left an indelible imprint on the FCC in less than three months. And in the latest rule "modernization" effort to emerge since he succeeded Jessica Rosenworcel, Carr is ready to review the Commission's muddy view of foreign ownership.
How are stations using the right strategies on the sales and revenue side to keep the quest for profits positive? That's a question that proved to be the focal point of a discussion on Sunday afternoon at the 2025 NAB Show moderated by the Chair and CEO of Chicago's Midway Broadcasting.
A radio/digital/social/video media company focused on La Grande and Burns, Ore., and the Columbia Basin has agreed to grab an FM translator serving the community of Union, Ore. The seller is an educational institution.
Visitors to GatesAir’s NAB Show 2025 booth will once again be taken through a journey of its current-generation transmission and networking products across three key product brands for wireless content delivery: Flexiva (FM and HD Radio), Intraplex (STL and Distribution) and Maxiva (TV and DAB/DAB+).
The NB2-10G-TRX is the second device added to the next-generation NanoBrix Series, which expands its scope of signal processing functions to serve more formats and networking needs common in today’s broadcast, streaming and AV media ecosystem.
SwXtch.io, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IEX Group, Inc., has signed two partnership agreements with Diversified that officially makes it a cloudSwXtch reseller. The deal will see Diversified work closely with swXtch.io to raise visibility and brand recognition in North America.
ENCO has brought to market a new cloud relay service that establishes a secure connection to on-prem captioning workflows for third-party remote stenographers and captioning services working in live broadcast environments.
The first full day of the 2025 NAB Show concluded Sunday evening with Cocktails & Conversation, presented by Beasley Media Group, Quu, Benztown, vCreative, Skyview Networks, Xperi Corp., ENCO and Streamline Publishing's Radio + Television Business Report and Radio Ink. We have some photos from the event.
By the end of the first day of sessions and expo floor activity across the expansive Las Vegas Convention Center, it became known that one of the Commissioners will not be offering a Keynote Address on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the other Commissioner, scheduled to appear Monday, is reportedly attending at her own expense.
The FCC has released its broadcast station totals for the first quarter of 2025, reflecting the three-month period ending March 31. The biggest takeaway? A huge surge in noncommercial FM radio stations, the result of a recent FCC action designed to bring new educational stations to the FM band, skewed the numbers.
The VP of Sales and Partnerships for Sinclair-owned AMP Sports has been elevated to Sr. VP of Sales for the unit and for Tennis Channel. She began her career at the Walt Disney Company some 18 years ago.
Across the Pacific Northwest, Alexandra Communications, under the direction of Thomas and Cheryl Hodgins, has operated a collection of AMs, FMs and FM translators in a variety of locales. Now, they're preparing to take ownership of a pair of AM stations in rural eastern Oregon.
A 1,000-watt Class C AM radio station serving Fort Smith, Ark., is poised to become the property of a company that shares its name with a popular chocolate candy snack. That's because Pharis Broadcasting is abandoning "Fort Smith's Straight Talk" by handing the "Marshal" to a new boss.
Dielectric, the Sinclair-owned broadcast tower company, has seen significant growth of late with its radio industry clients. In particular, FM station owners have been actively securing agreements with Dielectric. But, it hasn't been doing it alone: much of the activity is tied to 49-year-old pro audio company SCMS.
The 2025 NAB Show is poised to serve as yet another reminder that the consumer-forward gadgetry bringing clearer picture and improved sound to broadcast TV is broader than ever — and going global.
Audio processing and broadcast technology specialist Telos Alliance has reached an agreement with Telestream that brings the full integration of its Minnetonka Audio AudioTools Server with the Telestream Vantage product.
The Walt Disney Company operates on a unique fiscal year calendar, and it is ready to reveal its results for its second financial quarter of 2025. When will that happen? It's coming on the first Wednesday in May.
Since an initial announcement at IBC2024 in Amsterdam, the collaboration, they say, "has matured into a powerful alliance that helps broadcasters and media companies modernize their operations while significantly reducing technical overhead and infrastructure costs."
The Senate Commerce Committee is poised to bring the FCC one step closer to gaining its all-important third Republican vote-maker on the Commission, as President Trump's nominee to fill the agency's vacant seat is scheduled to appear at a nomination hearing on the calendar for next week.
First, it was TEGNA. Then Nexstar Media Group joined the party. Now the Atlanta-based company that seeks to bring in big dollars from its Assembly Atlanta studio complex has decided to also share its first quarter earnings report on the second Thursday of May — right before Upfronts Week.
