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With a share price of roughly $641, Spotify is one of the "Big Tech" giants across the globe when it comes to audio content consumption. With a record-high $776 per-share price seen in late June, can the company return to that level after enjoying 69% year-over-year growth?

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) has created a fellowship in the name of an iconic broadcasting industry-focused Washington, D.C. attorney, who calls it "an honor of a lifetime for which I am grateful."

For the EVP of Public Affairs at the NAB, the carriage fee feud between ABC parent Disney and Google's YouTube TV comes "thanks to Big Tech's heavy hand in deciding what viewers can and cannot watch."

The nation's most prominent media company superserving African American consumers has released its third quarter earnings results. In the words of Urban One President/CEO Alfred Liggins III, the Q3 results "came in slightly softer than expected across the board." If that's unsettling to investors, what will they think of the Q4 pacings?

Receiving its global debut at IBC2025 two months ago, Raptor offers a straightforward way to embed CEA-608 Closed Captions into a live program stream. That process incorporates the AI-based workflow from ENCO’s enCaption solutions to automatically generate captions.

NextKast is now offering to radio broadcasting companies "an intelligent, playlist-aware synchronization engine" designed to streamlines how station groups share content across multiple markets while allowing customized local programming.

Global streaming and podcast infrastructure company Zeno Media has introduced a HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) across its platform, promising quicker starts, smoother playback, and enhanced monetization and measurement tools to its users.

Some 12 months after Audacy Inc. placed all of its sports inventory into a single sales platform, the veteran sales executive who serves as Sr. VP of Sports Monetization at the company with majority control held by Soros Fund Management is retiring. 

The exclusive global provider of Philips Professional Displays and complementary hardware and software products, has promoted from within to fill the role of Senior Director of Sales for North America.

Dynaudio has brought to market a refreshed suite of next-generation audio tools engineered to serve as the central monitor controller of the modern studio. The "Control" series additions include the Control 01 and Control 02 digital audio processors.