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Paperwork has been filed at the FCC by Entravision's outside legal counsel, Ari Meltzer of Wiley LLP, that indicates several company executives will be the beneficiaries of the late Walter Ulloa's shares in the company he created.

A potential class action lawsuit against Weigel Broadcasting-owned classic TV and retro radio brand MeTV has been dismissed by an Illinois Federal District Court on the grounds that MeTV did not unlawfully disclose plaintiff's personal "video viewing" history and associated unique Facebook identification.

The Media and Democracy Project has petitioned the FCC seeking to deny WTXF's license renewal. It made the action based on its belief that senior management of FTS parent Fox Corporation "manipulated its audience by knowingly broadcasting false news about the 2020 election." Supporting the group — outspoken former Fox executive Preston Padden.

For customers of Hawaiian Telcom on Oahu with cable TV services, programming from FOX, MyNetwork TV and The CW Network isn't available. It's thanks to the second retransmission consent dispute this week to involve the nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast TV stations — Nexstar Media Group.

RBR+TVBR was first to report on the blockbuster $220,540,000 acquisition of the NBC affiliate serving Southwest Florida and the assumption of a programming relationship with the company that owns the market's ABC, MeTV and Dabl affiliate. Now, the deal has closed.

It's official: The nation's biggest owner of broadcast television stations has been unable to reach a retransmission consent agreement with DirectTV and U-Verse, even as the TV station group offered to extend its current agreement to a date of the DBS provider's choosing up until October 31.

On Thursday, it became known that Urban One would host a conference call for analysts and shareholders on July 7 to discuss its restated fiscal 2022 earnings results. It turns out that this is now optional for those who simply want to look at the numbers. A 10-K filing made Friday by Urban One disclosed all of the financial figures for the 12-month period ending December 31.

At the end of May, TEGNA and the successor companies to Raycom and Meredith did not agree to terms with settlement agreements that resolve advertising price-fixing claims being litigated in a Chicago federal court. Now, the TV station owners have asked the court to reconsider the settlement agreement reached in May. Why? Confidential client rosters would be handed over to the plaintiffs.

She dedicated 25 years to a career as a television news anchor and reporter, with a decade spent at Bonneville's KSL-5 in Salt Lake City. Additionally, she's been an instructor of broadcast journalism at Brigham Young University and a member of the LDS Church media team. Meet the new EVP/Chief Content Officer for Bonneville.

Audacy Inc. has moved forward with a reverse stock split — a decision rooted in its desire to regain compliance to trade on an exchange such as the NYSE, which it was booted from due to its prolonged sub-$1 share value. What was the ratio that Audacy's executive leadership team decided upon?

A partnership between Skyview Networks and ABC Audio will be coming to an end at the end of 2023, the Phoenix-based radio syndication and national ad sales firm has confirmed.

Corus Entertainment on Thursday released its fiscal third quarter 2023 results, and for President/CEO Doug Murphy, the declines are the result of one key conclusion — the Canadian radio and TV station owner's advertising recession, which began last summer, continues, negatively impacting revenue.

In November 2022, BIA VP of Forecasting and Analysis Nicole Ovadia offered up her first prediction of just where media advertising revenues will be in 2023. At first, a decline of 0.5% from the firm’s final estimate of $166.5 billion for 2022 was expected. Revised data has just been released by BIA, and it's not as rosy.

Nearly 15 years ago, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee for an Alabama broadcaster engineered the sale of an FM for $1.1 million. The licensee, however, had protested this sale, claiming Citizens Bank wrongly foreclosed on the FM and that it had a more robust purchase agreement in place. An Alabama federal court ruled in favor of the bank. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider an appeal.

She has served as SVP/GM of FOX Television Stations' two Dallas-Fort Worth broadcast properties since 1997, and has been with the company since 1995. Her final day in the role is Friday, FTS has confirmed.