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What should you wear when you present on Zoom or Microsoft Teams; speak in front of an audience; or do a media interview in front of a television camera? "That can be a tough decision when the stakes are high," says veteran public relations executive and "Zoom" coach Rosemary Ravinal, who shares some suggestions ... and even a short video lesson!

For communications, media and public relations pro Eric Yaverbaum, a public relations crisis unexpectedly involving your radio or TV stations can be avoided — even when it involves an on-air broadcast gone wrong. What does Yaverbaum suggest? He offers his insight in this exclusive column penned for RBR+TVBR.

The Radio+Television Business Report's exciting, just-released Fall 2022 Special Report is now available in an easy-to-navigate read-only format. It is the ONLY place you'll find our list of the 2022 Local TV Leaders — so click here for the highly anticipated rankings!

Looking for ways to make your LGBTQ+ advertising strategy more effective? Here are three tips from the team at Kantar worth considering, if this high-income, big-spending consumer group is of interest to your broadcast media properties.

The unveiling on Tuesday of its "largest and most diverse advanced audiences portfolio to date" is likely central to Nielsen's grand plan of winning back NBCU, home to former Nielsen leader Kelly Abcarian, pleasing the TVB and neutralizing new competitors in the process.

General Motors is on track to become the first brand to integrate with NBCUnified, NBCUniversal's first-party data and identity platform that unites the Comcast unit's network of consumer touchpoints into a scaled offering for marketers within One Platform.

To identify the most ethnically diverse places in the United States, WalletHub compared more than 500 of the largest U.S. cities across three key metrics: ethnoracial diversity, linguistic diversity and birthplace diversity. Here's what they found.

A BIA Advisory Services blog post shared by Managing Director Rick Ducey on Thursday shows that free-to-air broadcast television stands to earn nearly $4 billion in political dollars by the end of the 2022 cycle. Digital media is also strong. Radio? It's lagging — by a wide margin.

Traditional TV advertising "has been relatively resilient to date." That's not been the case in the red-hot digital ad world, where slowdowns suggest "a weakening macroeconomic environment." Are other factors at play, "especially given such a strong and seemingly unsustainable surge of spending in 2021, which has created an incredibly tough comp in 2022?" MoffettNathanson has three potential reasons beyond macro for digital advertising’s weakness this year.

Is a mix of subscriber-fueled video on demand services primed to replace the traditional MVPD? Futuresource Consulting’s Tristan Veale in December 2020 presented this question, and his findings which highlight the shifting content consumption habits of consumers across the globe remain pertinent today.

To better assess the challenges and opportunities for corporate internal communications, Ragan Communications and PoliteMail surveyed more than 250 communicators in May 2022. Their findings are now available, and could be of high importance to broadcast media C-Suites.

By popular demand, Miami-based "Zoom expert" and veteran public relations and corporate communications executive Rosemary Ravinal is back with a new column. This time, she tackles a highly important topic many of us are likely in need of digesting: verbosity in public speaking.

How to Make Real Money Podcasting, the weekly series begins Thursday. The first guest in this Streamline Publishing-produced learning opportunity is Supercast CEO Jason Sew Hoy. The first three weeks of our series are FREE. Seats are limited, and you can sign up HERE.

More than just playing a pile of records, Richard Burns' radio stations in markets including Juneau, Alaska, continue to spark renewed interest in AM and FM audio choices. RBR+TVBR interviewed Burns two years ago for the InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, and Burns' comments on what it means to be the first foreign owner approved by the FCC continue to resonate today. LISTEN HERE

Thanks to creative from an independent Black-owned advertising agency, Translation, the second "season" of SiriusXM's national ad campaign has been released. This sees three new spots tied to the overarching theme, "The Home of SiriusXM."