As far as Brendan Carr is concerned, the October Open Meeting of the FCC is on, signaling his confidence that the shutdown of the U.S. government will be resolved within the next three weeks. That may be good news to the roughly 1,000 FCC staff members who received temporary furlough notices last week.
Comcast's FreeWheel streaming advertising platform and Roku are expanding their partnership by bringing activation of the latter's premium Connected TV supply. The pact also creates greater scale for buyers to transact more efficiently with Roku inventory, with a direct path to the FreeWheel Advertiser Suite.
Roku is known as a key TV streaming platform. That said, in 2023 it has set its sights on the television set marketplace in an environment where built-in free ad supported streaming television (FAST) channels are quickly capturing consumers and advertisers. Now, a new line of Roku-branded TVs are available for purchase.
Weekly audio listening in the United Kingdom remains strong, albeit varied between age and gender. That's the key takeaway from RAJAR's Summer 2025 audio survey, known across Britain as "MIDAS."
The founder of "a leading independent subscription media company" who hosts the podcast Honestly whose resume includes stints as an op/ed writer at The New York Times and, before that, at The Wall Street Journal is the new Editor-in-Chief of CBS News. It's thanks to the purchase of The Free Press by Paramount.
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