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The FCC has released its January Open Meeting agenda, and among the four items up for a vote is  a Fourth Report and Order that would permit a new class of unlicensed 6 GHz devices—geofenced variable power (GVP) unlicensed devices—that operate outdoors at higher power.

"Closing the digital divide" was a mantra of ex-FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. It was a focal point for multicultural media leaders through the start of the decade. As 2026 begins, is there still a partition when it comes to smartphone ownership and internet use? Pew Research Center has an answer.

He signed an FM radio station in Crowley, La., on the air in 1977 and later purchased three low-power TV stations in the Bayou State. Barry D. Thompson was the owner, and died in September. This necessitated a shift in the ownership of the media properties, and the FCC has just granted that request.

It was reintroduced at the start of 2025, and again attracted overwhelming bipartisan support from Members of Congress. Yet, the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act has stalled in both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The Commander-in-Chief has made it clear he wants forward movement on the proposal.

Conservative politically focused spoken word star and radio personality Dan Bongino has made it official: he will return to a daily program in early February with Cumulus Media’s Westwood One. What’s unclear as of early Friday is if it involves a syndicated radio offering.

Paul Dobosz mapped out desolate areas of Nebraska for '80s auto signal tests

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CBS Stations has promoted from within to fill the role of Regional President and General Manager of its Northern California stations — a move that effectively adds Sacramento-area responsibilities to the person that's been in charge of its San Francisco properties.

Production professionals in radio, television, and streaming should be able to ensure that dialogues are always clearly understandable to the audience. Therefore, the Fraunhofer IDMT-HSA in Oldenburg developed the "Listening Effort Meter" (LE-Meter) for the objective evaluation of speech intelligibility.

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) Technical Committee for Broadcast and Online Delivery has published a comprehensive Technical Document which diagnoses the intelligibility problem and presents solutions. “Improving Dialogue Intelligibility in Media” is now available for download.

U.S.-based employers announced 35,553 job cuts in December — down 50% from the 71,321 job cuts announced in November and down by 8% from the 38,792 job cuts announced in the same month of 2024. That's according to data released Thursday from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.