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The Broadcast Standards Association known as ATSC is preparing to highlight the latest advancements in next-generation television broadcasting — and international collaboration — starting Monday in São Paulo, Brazil.

Noting that both Nexstar Media Group and TEGNA "take seriously the concerns" expressed by DirecTV in regard to their compliance of a preliminary injunction ordering a "hold separate" state of affairs between the two TV station ownership groups, a freshly filed status report shows where Nexstar is on reconstituting TEGNA's Board of Directors.

Documents produced by Nexstar in a retransmission consent complaint brought against it and two shared services providers in March 2023 by DirecTV have been criticized by the plaintiff in the federal legal battle as being deficient. Still, DirecTV believes there's another data that tilts the ongoing price fixing claim in its favor.

A Mendocino County, Calif., FM radio station with a Class B signal capable of reaching Laytonville, to the north, and northern portions of Santa Rosa and St. Helena to the south is being spun by Bicoastal Media.  The buyer in this deal brokered by Kalil & Co.? It's the giant of Christian Contemporary Music.

A Class A FM with a signal serving a listening area to the southwest of Huntsville, Ala., is trading hands. The new owner, pending FCC approval, is an individual known for his efforts behind the unfulfilled notion of a FCC-licensed "Class C4" FM radio station.

Alan Gottlieb has moved forward with the sale of an AM radio station that's presently silent under special temporary authority with the FCC. It is now poised to return to life under new ownership, thanks to a deal signed off by Keith Shipman.

It holds a construction permit for a 60-watt signal at 103.3 MHz serving Stafford and Sugar Land, Tex., to the southwest of central Houston. But, it won't for long, as the licensee has just sold this FM translator. For listeners, South Asian programming is likely to stay in place.

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It enjoys a 56kw Class C FM signal serving Whitefish, Mont., and many of its small surrounding communities. Soon, it will no longer be tied to a Forgotten Umbrella — the name of the licensee spinning this facility.

In June 2025, a 50/50 partnership between longtime communications law pro Arthur Belendiuk and John J. Fuller came to an end. Then, in April 2026, Fuller moved forward with the sale of a Class C3 Country station serving the Burlington, Vt. market. That transaction brokered by Richard A. Foreman Associates has now closed.