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And there are quite a few: Via a Public Notice, the Media Bureau has identified by group all of the mutually exclusive (MX) applications filed in the recent LPFM window. Effective 12/16, applicants may also electronically file certain amendments using the Commission’s Consolidated Database System (CDBS). The Bureau says it will provide expedited processing for all amendments, settlement requests and time-share agreements filed during the next 60 days to resolve technical conflicts. Here is how the filings are organized and processed:

The leading multi-channel network exclusively dedicated to Latino content, has closed a short-form content syndication deal

The Video CHOICE Act and Next Generation Television Marketplace Act, which seek to re-write/modernize much

NYC-based TargetSpot and Brussels-based Radionomy are merging in a deal that will mean the world’s largest digital audio advertising network. Radionomy, a major online radio platform for producers and broadcasters worldwide has combined with TargetSpot’s targeting and ad-serving business in the US that will add a digital audio market platform in Europe and give Radionomy a leg up in the US market. The two companies had already been working together here in the states.

The Department of Justice announced it will require Gannett, Belo and Sander Media

WNWO-TV the NBC affiliate for Toledo, Ohio area, ordered Buckeye Cable System (Block Communications Inc.)

Looking at consumers’ online activity in 2013, digital media had another banner year in 2013, and some of this year’s trends may provide some...

No date has been set for when national radio stations will stop broadcasting on FM as too few people currently listen on digital devices, the UK Government has confirmed with Yahoo News. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said 35.6% of radio listening is currently done via digital devices (DAB radio and the internet). An official switchover can take place when this figure hits 50% and when existing FM coverage has been replicated on DAB networks.

The offices of M.K.S. Broadcasting’s Sports Talk KFMO-AM and sister Rocker KDBB-FM in Park Hills, MO were closed over the weekend after a Park...

Charter Communications is preparing an offer letter of cash and stock to acquire Time Warner Cable for under $135 a share as early as next week, according to a Bloomberg story: “A bid of $135 a share would value TWC at about $62 billion, including the value of its debt. That’s about 7.5 times estimates for its 2014 EBITDA of $8.24 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Charter currently trades at a multiple of 8.7 times estimated 2014 EBITDA, while Comcast fetches 7.5 times.”