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As Comscore CEO Jon Carpenter sees it, 2023 had both highs and lows for the business. Unfortunately, the audience measurement company's fourth quarter brought a big earnings surprise that led shareholders to sell their stock on Thursday. Revenue missed the Zacks estimate by 2.46%.

Of all of the potential buyers for the 19 remaining radio stations that The E.W. Scripps Company sought a buyer for, this one may have caught market observers off-guard. Scripps​​ has reached an agreement to sell its last group of radio properties, located in four markets, to the Carl Parmer-led SummitMedia.

It was all but certain that Roger Wahl, a convicted felon, would be stripped of his broadcast license for an FM radio station in Somerset County, Pa., after an August 2022 determination from the FCC's Administrative Law Judge. This week, Wahl was officially given a revocation order.

As RBR+TVBR's Monday headlines e-mail was being finalized, word arrived via Pillsbury Law communications attorney Scott Flick that FEMA and the FCC have agreed to postpone the National EAS and Wireless Emergency Alerts tests scheduled for Thursday. The ongoing response efforts to Hurricane Florence mean there's a small delay.

The battle between Univision and DISH has heated up in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, as Unvision has filed counter-claims against the DBS provider, which is the plaintiff in this legal matter. Why? We reviewed the 36-page filing made October 12, and have some of the details.

If your company's employee roster doesn't reflect the multicultural audience it seeks, does it truly understand that audience, respect it, and want it? That's the subject of the latest Hispanic Radio Podcast, in which RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson tackles "The Case For Change" -- and how it could lead your company to not only change the format of a struggling radio station to one of interest to Latinos, but also lead your company to fully embrace the "new American mainstream."

The parent company of Radio One, Reach Media and TV One on Tuesday flipped the switch on a cash tender offer tied to its outstanding 9.25% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020. At the same time, it is entering into a new credit agreement that allows it to borrow millions of dollars via unsecured term loans.

The FCC is now a five-member body again—thanks to the Senate and a likely nod by the White House.

Jill Rosengard Hill, an EVP at Magid, on Friday delivered a Keynote address on the concluding day of the Media Ad Sales Summit, presented by Matrix Solutions. Hill put an exclamation point on broadcast TV's need to get on streamed devices should it wish to retain first-choice relevancy in the years to come.

Following a recent change of residence, our editor-in-chief invested in a $21 digital TV antenna and hooked it up to a television set in his home office. What was the result? He says it's best to perhaps stick with a MVPD if you truly want the TV service everyone deserves -- or, at least an vMVPD.

Some 16 years ago, the Postal Service had a hit with the Alternative track "Some Great Heights." Today, Cumulus Media stations such as KFOG-FM in San Francisco or KBXR-FM in Columbia, Mo., may wish to play it -- in salute of the company's strong Q4 2018 results.

To the surprise of no one, Cumulus Media sold KLOS-FM 95.5 in Los Angeles to Meruelo Media. The sale price may have been the most surprising aspect of this deal. Meanwhile, a swap with Connoisseur Media was had, and the agreement shows who brokered the deal.

Univision Communications' Spanish Word of the Day is abajo.That, translated to English, is "down." And, it is the only word that can describe the performance of the nation's biggest Hispanic-centric media company during Q1.

"This doesn’t happen that often!" MoffettNathanson Senior Analyst Michael Nathanson took a good look at the state of U.S. advertising following the Q1 earnings release cycle and has a startling revelation: He's raising the traditional media ad forecast and lowering its digital ad estimate.

"Nexstar pulls or threatens to pull their stations from the customers of TV providers to increase fees for stations far beyond their value," says DirecTV and U-Verse parent AT&T in response to the impasse with the broadcast TV company that has led to a "blackout" of its stations.