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Broadcasters hoping for movement on ownership limits will keep waiting, at least until December. The focal point of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s November meeting agenda is an order authorizing state and local jails to jam contraband cellphones, the lead item on a five-item November meeting agenda he previewed in his monthly blog post, themed around Halloween.

TelevisaUnivision’s third quarter ran on two tracks: a World Cup-fueled 51% revenue jump in Mexico, and a 24% drop in US advertising, with a $372 million write-down on broadcast licenses tipping the company into an operating loss despite a 9% gain in total revenue.

The Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Texas have taken a quarrelsome FCC question about who pays what for political airtime to a federal court in Amarillo with a request that would either widen candidates’ rate break or, as a fallback, end it.

A step-by-step walkthrough from a college station of the EAS filing

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Inspection of four Billings stations found unassigned monitoring source and missing test logs

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Solutions will need to evolve quickly and anticipate custom workflow demands

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Nasdaq-traded Comcast spinoff Versant on Wednesday brought to life a quartet of free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels tied to "past franchises" from CNBC, Oxygen and E!. This grows Versant's FAST portfolio to 13, and brings the offerings to Amazon Prime Video and, as of November 3, The Roku Channel.

After 14 years of operating the Deerfield Media-owned station via joint sales and shared services agreements, the company led by Chris Ripley is moving forward with purchasing the property — formerly home of The CW in San Antonio — it wanted to own in 2012.

A Consent Decree with the Acting Chief of the FCC's Media Bureau clears the way for the license renewal of certain Nexstar Media Group properties under a Commission microscope for the amount of commercials airing during children's programming. An online public inspection file flaw was also under review.

At question is the issue of governance of SBS, and it is one that may be unclear in the filings presented to the Commission by SBS through its legal counsel at Lerman Senter on behalf of company Legal Counsel and Chief Operating Officer Richard Lara.