Cox Media Group is facing a nearly $1 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over an AI-powered "Active Listening" advertising service that the agency says falsely claimed to harvest conversations from smart devices to serve targeted ads to consumers.
A prominent conservative media figure and political commentator with close ties to the Trump orbit is on the hook for $41,000 after an FCC investigation found one of his broadcast television stations serving the Susquehanna Valley filed or missed dozens of required public file documents over its license term.
Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club—one of more than 15 iHeartMedia shows brought to Netflix under the pair's exclusive video podcast partnership announced last December—is headed to the platform live, daily, and starting June 1, marking the first live weekday programming offering in the streaming giant's history.
An entertainment attorney with deep Academy roots, a dealmaker behind some of the streaming era's most consequential content transactions, and the chief executive overseeing one of the largest independent production footprints in the Western Hemisphere are bolstering the board of the Television Academy's philanthropic arm.
A change of setting and the company of loved ones can shift your outlook. But, respected public relations professional and "Zoom expert" Rosemary Ravinal did not anticipate that her grandson, Mo, would provide a fresh perspective on storytelling during her visit.
EstrellaTV has a new full-power address in San Antonio. MediaCo Holding launched the Spanish-language network on KYVV (Ch. 10) on May 19, planting a full-power flag in one of the country's largest Hispanic markets and adding to the company's must-carry distribution across top-10 Hispanic DMAs nationwide.
A new industry survey puts a number on the gap: advertisers are deploying agentic AI at a rate 60 percentage points higher than sellers of ad inventory, exposing a structural mismatch that could fundamentally reshape how media inventory gets bought and sold before the sell side is equipped to handle it.
It was an unexpected turn on Capitol Hill, but now the fight to keep AM radio in the automobile dashboard has a new vehicle to a floor vote. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted Thursday to include the AM Act's language in Chairman Brett Guthrie's Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026.
A music industry trade association representing Christian and Gospel labels is asking the FCC to treat FM and AM as two separate regulatory problems in its still-pending 2022 Quadrennial Review, holding the line on local commercial FM ownership caps while eliminating limits on how many AM stations a single entity may own within a given market.
The President/GM of the CBS affiliate in Kentucky's largest market, owned by Hearst Television, is retiring. The role will be filled by the station's ND, who has been associated with the station for some 14 years. As Hearst Television President Michael J. Hayes says, “She knows this community like few other journalists ever have.”
Six Democratic senators are demanding that the FCC explain how it intends to review Paramount Global's request to authorize sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar to hold up to 100% of the equity in its broadcast television stations and whether Chairman Brendan Carr can evaluate it impartially.
A Dallas-based AI startup is making its pitch to fill the void left by years of local radio newsroom closures. Riply launched May 19 with a platform that pulls from a proprietary network of curated local sources and converts what it finds into broadcast-ready scripts, produced audio segments, and content feeds designed to slot into existing workflows.
The Broadcasters Foundation of America's 2026 Summer Sessions arrives in New York City on BFOA Giving Day, Thursday, June 25, with a free Media Mixer hosted by Z100 (WHTZ) personality Maxwell, a special appearance by former CBS Radio executive Dan Mason, and a performance by The Voice alumnus Carolina Rial.
A federal appeals court has given the FCC 30 days to respond to a mandamus petition seeking to force the agency to rule on a request to repeal its news distortion policy, escalating a legal fight that began when a bipartisan group of former commissioners filed for the policy's elimination last fall.
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Despite efforts in D.C. to limit its use in the U.S. due to its ties to the Chinese government and a new effort led by 14 state attorneys general to impose "significant penalties" on it for its harms to American youth, TikTok is a major social media platform that isn't fading away anytime soon. Data from Pew indicate that adults — not kids — are big-time users.
Local digital advertising is still growing, but operators relying on prior-year baselines to set targets may already be falling behind. That was the central takeaway from Borrell Associates' annual benchmarking webinar, as executives from Townsquare Media, Bonneville International, and Newsday walked through their strategies for success.
Television had a notable presence among the honorees at the 51st Annual Gracie Awards, as the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation marked its 75th anniversary on Tuesday night at the Beverly Wilshire, honoring women who have reshaped media.
Coming this summer to TelevisaUnivision: La Radio del Mundial, as the Spanish-language radio operator partners with Fútbol de Primera to carry live, play-by-play FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage across nine of its flagship AM/FM stations in New York, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago, running June 11 through July 19.
A professional tackle football circuit played on sand, founded by former NFL linebacker and two-time Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain, has signed iHeartRadio as its Official Audio and Radio Partner, with events already underway in California and destination stops planned across the country through 2027.
