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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.

Two heritage radio stations serving Blacks across North Texas for decades are being sold to Urban One. This results in the company led by Alfred Liggins III agreeing to sell its FM at 94.5 MHz to a regional broadcast ministry that plans to switch that station to Spanish-language Christian programming.

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Global consumer spending on overall media content and technology grew 2.8% to $2.439 trillion in 2025, decelerating from a 4.4% increase in 2024, as there were no major international sporting events and fewer federal elections and related media buying.

The NAB's 2026 Marconi Radio Award nomination window is now open, and will remain so through the month of May. Award winners will be announced during a special dinner program presented by HD Radio and DTS AutoStage parent Xperi on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Nexstar is aggressively moving ahead with full confidence that its acquisition of TEGNA is proper, allowing it to integrate the company's assets with its own. With all eyes on Nexstar's May 7 Q1 2026 earnings call, the company's board of directors has moved forward with a healthy quarterly cash dividend for its stockholders.

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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.

A privately held licensee of broadcast radio stations found across the Show-Me State is largely to thank for the end of the FCC's TV "Top-Four Prohibition," as it successfully sued the Commission in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2025. Now, it has written to the Commission to outright eliminate its local radio restrictions.