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Free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) has moved from the margins of the streaming landscape to the center of how Americans watch TV, says Hub Entertainment Research. A new study from Hub shows that FAST services are quickly capturing TV households, with roughly half of those users calling FAST a "must-have."

The LPTV Broadcasters Association, founded by entrepreneur and LPTV champion "SuperFrank" Copsidas, very much wants 5G Broadcast to become a voluntary broadcast standard for U.S. LPTV stations. That's why he's written to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr seeking "immediate regulatory action."

As we conclude the first half of 2026, broadcast media’s sales leaders had plenty of challenges. Two key analysts chimed in with their thoughts as Omnicom Media Intelligence offered fresh insights on the matter, and the details are included in RBR+TVBR's just-released Summer 2026 magazine.

It has operated six radio stations in Elko, Nev., and four audio brands serving Clovis, N. Mex., in addition to the Ruby Want Ads and Your News NM websites. There's also the "Radio Santa" streaming audio offering. All are being sold off, as the company behind these offerings has entered Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.

There's a new leader at Spot Cable when it comes to the total amount of commercial appearances for the week ending May 10, based on data collected by iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors. It happens to be one of the oldest brands in the U.S., and its activity even eclipsed that of Liberty Mutual Insurance.

The media company grew revenue in the first three months of this year

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She's been associated with the nation's largest single owner of broadcast television stations since May 2009 and before that was VP of Legal Affairs for First Broadcasting. Now, she will serve as Executive VP/General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Directors of the company founded 30 years ago by Perry Sook.

Channel 13 in Stockton, Calif., is the latest broadcast television station to adopted an augmented reality/virtual reality news studio. The addition at KOVR-TV, better known as "CBS Sacramento," marks the 12th rollout of the technology-driven method bringing immersive storytelling and next-generation journalism to viewers.

Less than two weeks after Allen Media Group closed on the sale of a group of broadcast television stations to Gray Media for $171 million, Byron Allen's Allen Family Digital LLC has reached an agreement to acquire the parent of internet content hubs HuffPost and Tasty — BuzzFeed Inc.