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A company spokesman commented, “ DIRECTV and the State AGs are peddling the fiction that this lawsuit is about protecting local media and viewers when it is actually a cynical attempt to advance their own commercial and political interests.”

The 94.5 MHz facility associated with KBAY-FM in San Jose is being sold to one of the nation’s largest Christian contemporary music networks. The call letters and format will be retained by Connoisseur Media.

One is a family-owned broadcast media company focused on non-secular programming. The other is the nation's largest single licensee of AM and FM radio stations. These two entities have just agreed to swap a pair of FM translators, located in Denver and in San Diego, respectively.

Disney's broadcast TV unit filed reply comments with the FCC in support of its Petition for Declaratory Ruling classifying daytime roundtable chat show The View as a bona fide news program. In short, ABC warned that the government should not serve as content police, a First Amendment violation.

What can investors anticipate from Gray Media when it comes to the broadcast television station owner's second quarter 2026 earnings results? The answers will come on August 7 with the release of its financial health card, and a conference call hosted by Hilton Howell Jr. and Pat LaPlatney.

The individual who leads the Cumulus Media radio stations serving Mobile has been promoted to Regional Vice President, taking on the additional responsibilities of overseeing the company's broadcast radio stations in four other markets across Bayou Country and the Deep South.

Call it a COVID shot. Since the pandemic's dark days of Summer 2020, West Palm Beach has been a boomtown. This has made land values particularly valuable in the downtown core. In May 2025 The E.W. Scripps Co. decided to leave the 24-year home for the market's NBC affiliate. It's now known it is leaving the city.

In 2017, he was recruited to join Veritone to build out its radio business and, later, its Television vertical. In July 2023, he rose from Managing Director of Media and Broadcasting to become Sr. VP of Sales for Media, Entertainment and Sports. Now, following a restructuring, this veteran media tech executive is moving on.

From AI to updates to rules and regulations deemed outdated, the Carr Commission has taken aggressive approach to deleting what is no longer necessary to keep on the books. An AEI session with the FCC's Senior Counsel kicking off the discussion touched on how the "multi-modal future" is being addressed.

Attorneys James E. Gallagher and David J. Powsner of Davis, Malm & D'Agostine, P.C. in Boston are representing Screendollars. US District Judge Patti B. Saris has been assigned to the case. Neither Screendollars nor SiriusXM had issued public statements on the litigation at press time.