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Calling it "an important milestone" in its efforts to develop measurement standards designed specifically with "today's complex video consumption environments in mind," the MRC early Wednesday released the final version of its Cross-Media Audience Measurement Standards.

Don't think for a minute that television broadcasting companies are the only ones tangling with MVPDs over new rights agreements. A regional sports network heavy on Mile High pro teams on August 29 went dark on DISH. Two other big "blackouts" came on Saturday.

It may have been a Federal holiday, but that didn't stop the key leaders at the MMTC from drafting a letter to the FCC late Monday  "respectfully recommending four steps it can take immediately, upon delegated authority, to improve EEO enforcement. 

Three members of the Media Bureau’s Audio Division hold the keys to the grant of radio station assignments and transfers. They’ve agreed to provide RBR+TVBR, through prominent D.C. attorney Erwin Krasnow, a behind-the-scenes look at the assignment and transfer application process.

After nearly two months, just in time for the start of the NFL regular season, it's over: Nexstar Media Group and AT&T have entered into a new multi-year retransmission consent agreement to provide Nexstar-owned network affiliated and local broadcast stations to customers of AT&T’s video platforms in 97 markets across the United States.

Just days after exiting the COO position at LBI Media, Winter Horton has quickly resurfaced across town — as Chief Operations Officer of Meruelo Media.

A 125-page document outlining the assessment and collection of regulatory fees for fiscal 2019 has been released by the FCC. Details of the R&O and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking were shared Wednesday by the Commission, along with a statement on the reg fees from one GOP Commissioner.

Three weeks ago, Entercom's stock dropped off a cliff, falling to a fresh five-year low. With shares going ex-dividend Wednesday, could investors have benefited by buying up shares on Tuesday? Simply Wall St. suggested it wasn't a good idea. The market listened.

How critical is a new retransmission consent agreement for one of the nation's largest TV broadcasting companies, an entity that still awaits FCC approval of its proposed merger with Tribune Media? For Nexstar Media Group, the lack of a retrans deal with AT&T for its three TV services is wreaking havoc for a stock that had zoomed to a record high just four months ago.

No, he's not traded in a megaphone for an intercom. Rather, sales and marketing pro Ken Lagana will soon be representing Entercom. He's tasked with leading the sales strategy for the company's "large and rapidly growing" digital business.

Under Salem Media Group, an AM with an FM translator serving Orlando has provided the company with “The Answer” to offering conservative Talk programming to the 31st-largest radio market. With JVC Media soon taking over, a big shift in spoken word programming is on the way. This includes bringing Bubba The Love Sponge to listeners.

In a major power shift, LBI Media -- the parent of Liberman Broadcasting and the Estrella TV Spanish-language broadcast television network -- has confirmed that its COO has exited. In his place, on an interim basis, is a former Chairman/CEO of Granite Broadcasting.

Ten minutes before Friday's Closing Bell on Wall Street, The Wall Street Journal published a report that the entity that did a private buyout of Cox Media Group and Northwest Broadcasting approached TEGNA about a possible sale. The company just confirmed this.

The biggest news from Comscore on Tuesday wasn't distributed by a press release, but was instead revealed in a SEC filing. Job losses are on the way at the fiscally challenged cross-platform measurement firm, which announced a new offering within its suite of Marketing Impact products.

What if a recession were to engulf the U.S. by the end of 2020? According to Nomura Instinet analysts, companies such as Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet will be just fine. But, that's not what they're saying about Netflix. Investors reacted by selling off NFLX shares.