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Media brokers largely believe HC2 Holdings has completed its buying spree. Its leader has repeatedly declined interview requests over the last two months. As speculation grows that HC2 isn't keeping its collection of LPTV and full-power signals, it has just added six more Class As.

Nexstar Media Group enjoyed another up day on Wall Street today, as the broadcast TV station owner seeking to merge with Tribune Broadcasting revealed that it seeks to keep its duopoly situation in Indianapolis intact following the acquisition.

In the world of M&A transactions, many are successful … and almost as many fail. Now, think about many of the songs you hear. Joyful, happy songs appear along sad ones. In the second of a two-part report, DEFcom Advisors CEO Doug Ferber offers his “lyrical guide to successful broadcast transactions.”

On November 18, 2016, an antitrust lawsuit was filed in a Philadelphia-based federal court by the Radio Music Licensing Committee against the Irving Azoff-led Global Music Rights music licensing organization. The case, assigned to the Hon. C. Darnell Jones II, is now in its third year without resolution and has come with twists and turns -- including jurisdictional challenges. On Tuesday, a new development in this battle over radio royalty fees emerged.

A veteran Detroit broadcaster with more than three decades of experience in Motor City radio has been given the role of VP/GM of Cumulus Media's Detroit station group. Cumulus has four stations in the market, including WJR, for which he was Director of Sales.

SiriusXM has reached "a landmark agreement" with Toyota that will expand the installation of SiriusXM to all Toyota models and trims sold in the Continental U.S. The expansion is expected to start with 2020 model year vehicles produced in the Fall of 2019.

In 1992, Bill Wilson was a marketing assistant at Arista Records. Today, he's adjusting to his new role as the lone CEO at Townsquare Media. With jobs at BMG and Aol in his past, this experience -- and his love for local media -- is what is driving the company today.

It's a new day for streaming audio pioneer Pandora. Shareholders today in a special meeting gave the green light to its sale to Sirius XM Satellite Radio. What does this mean for Roger Lynch? We now know.

It's not often that an unlicensed television station gets detected by the FCC Enforcement Bureau and be liable for a sizable forfeiture payment. Yet, that's exactly what the Commission did today to the operator of a Kentucky-based low-power TV stations.

The fate of 327 applications for new FM translator stations is now certain, thanks to a Memorandum Opinion and Order released today and adopted Monday by the FCC's Commissioners.

What's next for iHeartMedia, and perhaps for the radio business, now that it has new owners — namely two large financial investment management firms? The Global Head of Restructuring Data at Debtwire, which provides news, data and analysis on debt markets, shared his thoughts with RBR+TVBR.

In September 2018, RBR+TVBR reported on a big change from Nielsen Audio in its diary-measured markets. It seeks to “transform” the measurement of these markets from a quarterly or two times a year view to year-round measurement with monthly reporting. One radio industry professional says its not true. Nielsen responded.

Jill Rosengard Hill, an EVP at Magid, on Friday delivered a Keynote address on the concluding day of the Media Ad Sales Summit, presented by Matrix Solutions. Hill put an exclamation point on broadcast TV's need to get on streamed devices should it wish to retain first-choice relevancy in the years to come.

For months, the radio industry has waited with bated breath for an announcement that involved Lew Dickey Jr., co-founder of Cumulus Media. Would he be returning to the industry? On Thursday evening, British Standard Time, Dickey formally revealed what he's up to.

When it comes to the state of broadcast television in the coming years, there's one advantage that will continue to make over-the-air stations vitally important to CMOs: Reach. That was a key point made during an Opening Keynote not at a NATPE Miami session, but at the Media Ad Sales Summit next door.