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If you can believe it, we are nearly halfway done with the decade. And, that means it is almost time to give gifts for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or just for the fun of it. One big national retailer recognizes this.

He's an individual who leads a production house for independent motion pictures. In recent years, he's also become an owner of broadcast radio and TV stations. Now, he's selling an AM with an FM translator in California's Coachella Valley. The buyer is a veteran broker.

Chris Ripley is aggressively moving forward with an unsolicited bid to acquire the E.W. Scripps Co. by offering to purchase all outstanding shares for $7 a piece. Pro-MVPD advocacy group ACA Connects bemoaned the plan, claiming it could negatively impact future retransmission fee negotiations.

The President of the United States has weighed in on a current proposal by the FCC to thaw its local TV ownership rules for broadcast television. For Donald J. Trump, wariness abounds, as he suggests any thawing of the rules could give the "Big Four" networks more power than they have today.

In 1983, a former University of Florida swim team member took a job as a Senior News Producer at WTLV-TV in Jacksonville. He'd later serve as a News Producer at WTSP-10 in Tampa, and in 1993 relocated to Western New York to become News Director of WKBW-7 in Buffalo. Since October 1996, he's been based just to the east, in Rochester, N.Y. Now, Chuck Samuels is retiring, and the Sinclair Inc. stations will be getting a new leader.

In February, he launched a Classic Hits operation serving a portion of the Central Coast of California while investing in a Missouri FM. This after the November 2024 purchase of an FM in New York's Adirondacks. Now, Todd Nixon has made it clear he believes in local radio in the most picturesque of settings.

The longtime NBCUniversal executive chosen to serve as CEO of spinoff operation Versant has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Golden Mic Award from the Broadcasters Foundation of America. He'll receive the honor at a black-tie event scheduled for March 9, 2026.

Autumn grid-iron action and the blossoming of a new broadcast TV season helped over-the-air broadcast and cable television combat the ever-growing encroachment of digital and streaming platforms in October, fresh data from Nielsen found in its Media Distributor Gauge show.

Introducing the latest retransmission consent impasse to result in a "blackout," by law, of channels associated with NBCUniversal. The service that is prohibiting its paid subscribers from getting these channels? Look no further than the "sports first" virtual MVPD now owned by The Walt Disney Company.

Bonneville International is uniting its sports coverage across five major markets under the Bonneville Sports Network. The multi-market sports advertising platform is designed to give brands unified access to fans in Washington, Colorado, California, Arizona, and Utah.