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Three Boston TV employees who hauled cameras and live gear ahead of a blizzard get to make their case that the prep was paid work. A federal judge says the clock may start earlier than WHDH-TV believes, and most of the suit survives.

Thirteen years after first taking over the programming under an LMA, a South Texas broadcaster is lining up to outright own three Alice, TX signals serving the Corpus Christi area with Spanish-language Christian and Tejano music programming.

Disney Entertainment Television’s new money chief didn’t have to move far for the job. A finance executive with nearly a decade at the company, most of it around Freeform and ABC, is now the division’s CFO, with the networks, stations, and news group under his purview.

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Energy and Commerce Dems call on Senate leaders to pair with Republican nominee

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A law firm that worked on iHeartMedia’s 2018 bankruptcy is preparing to shut down after 95 years. Weil, Gotshal & Manges has recommended an orderly wind-down, with a partner vote expected within days, following failed merger talks and a string of high-profile partner departures.

Some FM stations that lose a tower can’t move to another one because the FCC’s spacing rules say no. A petition now open for comment would let them, as long as the move causes no added interference and Urban One’s chief executive is among its backers.

A SportsCenter anchor with more than three decades of credits is getting the Alliance for Women in Media’s Gracies Icon Award. ESPN’s Hannah Storm will be among those honored at the Gracies Leadership Awards on November 16 at Tribeca 360° in New York City.

Hubbard Radio has brought back a former Alexandria operations manager to run the shop. Kris Valentine returns as General Manager of its Alexandria and Wadena, MN stations after a stop at Leighton Broadcasting, and he and Chelsea Valentine are restarting their morning show on KIKV-FM.

Radio’s ad return jumped 27 points in a 2012 study, then a recent do-over came back flat. A new IAB guide explains why audio keeps getting shortchanged in media mix models, and names the one party with the power to change that.