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What do NAB Chief Legal Officer Rick Kaplan, Motion Picture Association Sr. Executive VP and Global General Counsel Karyn Temple, and NCTA-The Internet &...

The Motion Picture Association, which today very much includes "Big Tech" behemoths Amazon and Netflix, has asked the FCC to refrain from "intervening" in the video marketplace "in light of increasing innovation, intermodal competition, and viewer choice."

With a “hold separate” court ruling being appealed in the Ninth Circuit and a D.C. court hearing a separate challenge, TEGNA has named a Chief Executive Officer — a sign that Nexstar’s quest to merge could take years.

In early May, the parent of the ABC Television Network pled its case to the Commission in a Petition for Declaratory Ruling that "The View" is a bona fide news program. Those who agree, or feel otherwise, are now being invited to submit their comments to the Commission in a highly partisan look at the show.

It was an unexpected turn on Capitol Hill, but now the fight to keep AM radio in the automobile dashboard has a new vehicle to a floor vote. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted Thursday to include the AM Act's language in Chairman Brett Guthrie's Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026.

The FCC's May Open Meeting produced a unanimous vote on four items, including streamlining the DIRS, but after the meeting adjourned, Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Anna Gomez were far from one accord.  Separate press conferences offered starkly different accounts of where the commission is headed.

For Connoisseur Media, and any other broadcast licensee currently navigating a foreign ownership remediation at the FCC, a Tuesday filing brought some much-needed clarity, but also a few speed bumps — especially as the Jeff Warshaw-led radio group goes full steam ahead on its aggressive M&A plan.

A three-judge federal appeals court panel on Friday expressed doubts that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia erred in its August 2025 decision that a racial discrimination claim lobbed by Standard General head Soohyung Kim against the FCC has no merit.

With the May 7 release of its first quarter earnings results, Gray Media indicated that it is seeing some "softness" in core advertising in Q2. Now, one prominent Wall Street financial analyst has responded by slicing his 1-year target price for "GTN."

It's a unit of a publicly traded diversified holding company known as Innovate Inc., and with Thursday's release of that entity's first quarter earnings came an up-close look at the financial health of low-power TV-focused licensee HC2 Broadcasting. Just how is HC2, a "Spectrum" segment, performing for Innovate's investors?

Declines in the traditional ad marketplace fueled dollar dips in the first quarter of 2026 that went beyond Urban One's own forecasts, with Digital revenue sliding by 33.6% due to a variety of factors — including marketer "DEI"-influenced pullbacks.

Adjusted EBITDA was negative. Yet, a swing from a Q1 2025 net loss to net income in the first three months of 2026 was seen from Beasley Media Group.  What's the key message for shareholders including Mario Gabelli and his GAMCO Investors? 

As we conclude the first half of 2026, broadcast media’s sales leaders had plenty of challenges. Two key analysts chimed in with their thoughts as Omnicom Media Intelligence offered fresh insights on the matter, and the details are included in RBR+TVBR's just-released Summer 2026 magazine.

Less than two weeks after Allen Media Group closed on the sale of a group of broadcast television stations to Gray Media for $171 million, Byron Allen's Allen Family Digital LLC has reached an agreement to acquire the parent of internet content hubs HuffPost and Tasty — BuzzFeed Inc.

A writ of mandamus is defined as an order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the government official to properly fulfill their official duties. That's what the appellants in Free Press v. FCC want the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to issue, so Nexstar Media Group's approved merger with TEGNA gets unwound.