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Listeners pay attention to dashboard displays and also consume station YouTube feeds

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DirecTV filed a petition to deny the $171 million transaction that would see 10 Allen Media Group TV stations wind up in the growing stable of the second-largest broadcast television licensee in the U.S.: Gray Media. Erin Boone's replacement as acting Media Bureau Chief tossed DirecTV's plea. The deal's closing came late Friday.

A particularly bitter battle over carriage fees for Gray Media's broadcast television channels on one of the nation's two direct broadcast satellite TV service providers has ended, with its channels being restored just in time for the Kentucky Derby.

Its properties include seven distinct television brands serving the Delmarva region and a collection of FM radio stations stretching from Wilmington, Del., and Havre de Grace, Md., to its home market of Salisbury-Ocean City, Md. As of today, these properties are under the leadership of a new President.

It will divest KZMJ to EMG; sale marks exit of longtime owner Hymen Childs

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It was alluded to on Thursday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr during a post-May Open Meeting press conference with journalists at Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. Now, we have the full story as to why a radio station is getting a short-term license renewal

They have collaborated for the past seven years. Soon, they will be one entity, as GBH and New England Public Media (NEPM) began the month of May by revealing plans to merge operations. The merger is expected to be complete in summer 2026.

Says Miss. station didn't make online filing despite recent consent decree

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With a diverse group of businesses ranging from the Kaplan educational brand to a restaurant group in the Nation's Capital, Graham Holdings Company has released its Q1 2026 earnings report. How did its collection of broadcast TV stations with historical ties to the Washington Post and Newsweek fare?

Ohio's Attorney General late Thursday announced that it had reached a deal with Nexstar Media Group to keep newsrooms at TEGNA stations in two Buckeye State markets intact for the next several years. Then came word that five state AGs joined California's Rob Bonta in its Sacramento-filed federal lawsuit against Nexstar.