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After revamping its smartphone app experience in December, iHeartMedia is now putting live radio directly into a new kind of mobile platform: sunglasses. The company has rolled out an integration with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, becoming the first to give users hands-free access to radio and podcasts by simply speaking to their eyewear.

The great streaming shakeout is well underway. As subscription prices continue to climb, millions of viewers are opting out - but they aren’t tuning out. Instead, a growing wave of consumers is flipping back to ad-supported streaming, embracing free services that trade commercials for cost savings, according to VAB.

Theme of the show in September is "Shaping the Future"

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May served as a watershed month for US viewing habits, as streaming surpassed the combined share of broadcast and cable for the first time in Nielsen measurement. Still, among television viewing share last month, Warner Bros. Discovery and FOX were the big winners in terms of growth.

A proposed federal freeze on state artificial intelligence regulations has survived the "Byrd Bath" as the Senate reconciliation bill advances. The United States Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the provision, now described as a “temporary pause” rather than a full moratorium, can remain in the legislation.

“Losing public media would erode that trust and leave many American communities in the dark,” is the opinion of the Attorneys General of 22 states and the District of Columbia, who have filed an amicus brief supporting NPR and PBS in their lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to strip federal funding from public broadcasters.

CBS Texas (KTVT-TV) in Dallas-Ft. Worth has become the latest station to roll out Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technology, marking the eighth CBS Stations market to adopt the platform behind New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, the Bay Area, Denver, and Miami.

Otto Padrón, who led Los Angeles-based Meruelo Media for nearly a decade before stepping down earlier this year, has named his next move - Co-President, Co-Owner, and Chief Operating Officer of a national broadcast group operating five television networks.

Today marks the Broadcasters Foundation of America's Giving Day - a rallying call for the broadcast community to aid radio and TV professionals, past and present, facing severe financial hardship due to illness, natural disasters, or unforeseen personal crises.

Olivia Trusty has formally begun her tenure at the Federal Communications Commission, taking the oath of office on Monday to become the agency’s newest Commissioner. The swearing-in was shared on social media by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.