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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.”

Legislative package in the House now includes the AM Radio Every Vehicle Act

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The latest addition to Wheatstone’s Audioarts DMX console line

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“Telling the stories of the men and women who protect us at home and abroad”

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