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A coalition of 12 state Attorneys General, led by California's Rob Bonta, has moved forward with their highly expected move of filing a lawsuit challenging the $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by the parent of CBS News & Stations. 

Since the 2017 incentive auction, LPTV valuations operated in a predictable framework. Values were supported by a steady pace of transaction activity and a defined universe of strategic buyers. Over the past 12 to 18 months, however, that framework has changed dramatically. Here are some of the reasons why that's taken place.

The fresh accord, announced late Friday, immediately returned 54 local broadcast stations owned and operated by Scripps to DIRECTV streaming, satellite, and U-verse customers. The agreement ended a five-week blackout affecting millions of customers across 36 Nielsen DMAs.

A broadcast television station acquired within the last year by Todd Parkin-led Rincon Broadcasting Group as part of a $29.4 million transaction with Sinclair Inc. and today under the ultimate control of Soo Kim has reached an agreement with the National Basketball Association’s Milwaukee franchise.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted a request by the Commission to dismiss the appeals filed in the combined Free Press v. FCC case designed to thwart Nexstar Media Group's regulatorily approved merger with TEGNA. It's a win for the Commission and for Nexstar.

Four photographers who work for the news-driven unaffiliated television station serving Boston owned by Sunbeam Television have taken the company to court for allegedly failing to properly reimburse them for time spent during a mandatory hotel stay tied to a winter weather plan initiated by the station in late January.

Nexstar Media Group's reply brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals largely reiterates its earlier arguments while offering a plea to do something many have predicted — removing the state Attorneys General that joined DirecTV in fighting against its regulatorily-approved merger with TEGNA.

Disney's broadcast TV unit filed reply comments with the FCC in support of its Petition for Declaratory Ruling classifying daytime roundtable chat show The View as a bona fide news program. In short, ABC warned that the government should not serve as content police, a First Amendment violation.

Call it a COVID shot. Since the pandemic's dark days of Summer 2020, West Palm Beach has been a boomtown. This has made land values particularly valuable in the downtown core. In May 2025 The E.W. Scripps Co. decided to leave the 24-year home for the market's NBC affiliate. It's now known it is leaving the city.

The FCC has approved iHeartMedia’s petition to expand its foreign ownership authorization, clearing the way for new investors tied to the United Kingdom’s largest commercial radio company, Global, while keeping the broadcaster’s aggregate foreign ownership cap unchanged.

A 23-year veteran of Fox Television Stations who two years ago expanded his duties by becoming the leader of its stations in Orlando and Gainesville, in addition to Tampa Bay, will soon be wrapping up his career. The longtime newsroom leader at "FOX 35" in Orlando is poised to assume Jeff Maloney's duties. 

The single-largest owner of broadcast television stations, which also owns WGN Radio, the NewsNation cable news channel, Capitol Hill-focused news brand The Hill and a majority stake in The CW Network, has decided when it will share its financial results for the second quarter of 2026.

The life of a transmitter is a critical conversation topic one in the C-Suite must have working knowledge of. Nautel Chief Executive Officer Kevin Rodgers is just the person to explain why. In this interview, he outlines the tell-tale signs that it's time for a replacement — and why continued repairs are a dollar-sucker.

On June 23, RBR+TVBR detailed the dismissal by the FCC's Media Bureau of a Petition for Special Relief filed by "a number of former FCC officials" who requested the Commission “repeal its news distortion policy in full.” Now, the lone Democrat on the Commission has spoken out by offering her "dissent" of the decision.

For more than a decade, Gray Media and the former Raycom Media, prior to Raycom's merger with Gray, provided back-office services to five television stations licensed to a company founded in 2003 by Thomas B. Henson. Gray and Raycom also produced local newscasts for four of the stations. Now, Gray is buying them.