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In the broadcasting industry, the traffic department often is overlooked

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Titletown has a new Station Manager for a pair of Sinclair Inc.-owned broadcast TV stations, and he's been on the job since Monday. That said, this individual has been with the stations for nearly a decade.

For nearly 13 years, he advocated for broadcast television and radio as a member of the NAB's Media Relations and Communications corps. Since the start of 2024, he has been aligned with ACA Connects. Now, he's penned an opinion piece that posits the cable TV industry against a rewrite of the FCC's media ownership rules.

A decade-long moratorium on state-level Artificial Intelligence regulations, which would have impacted broadcast media stations across the U.S., was solidly defeated by a nearly unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate.

There's a new head of Gray Media's full-power NBC affiliate serving Parkersburg, W. Va., and the two low-power TV station siblings that bring FOX and CBS programming to this small West Virginia market.

Erin Boone has moved forward with the license renewals for a trio of full-power television stations serving the Baltimore market, dismissing a Petition to Deny filed by an individual who died after submitting it. A longtime attorney attempted to keep the petition active by swapping the deceased party for another person.

Three months ago, a Hispanic radio voice serving Iowa's largest market moved to a new broadcast home. Now, it is turning a Time Brokerage Agreement into an outright purchase of the facilities.

DataCore Software, known for software-defined storage and intelligent data management solutions, has selected an individual to lead global sales, channel and revenue operations to accelerate the company’s growth and market expansion.

The two companies that own over 1,200 U.S. stations announced a content partnership

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The CBS affiliate serving the Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisc., market will have a new General Manager. She'll take on the role starting July 21.