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Some 46% of respondents who participated in a Pew Research Center study in which they were asked how the news they get makes them feel believed they are informed either "extremely often" or "often." That's one key takeaway from newly analyzed data shared by Pew on Wednesday.

A market and survey research firm based in suburban Philadelphia has acquired one of the broadcast media's most recognized quantitative and qualitative research firms — an entity long-associated with Larry Rosin. What does this mean for Edison Research?

Meta's ubiquitous Instagram social media platform is revamping its Teen Accounts as part of a wholesale effort to protect those under the age of 13 from consuming content deemed unsuitable for tweens and younger children. To do so, it is taking a cue from the Motion Picture Association of America.

GatesAir — a renowned company in the broadcast industry with a history of powering over-the-air networks worldwide for the past 100 years — has landed in the hands of a new owner. It ends three years of operating as a Thomson Broadcast subsidiary.

Canadian radio stations may no longer need to submit a license renewal application, thanks to a "modernization of radio processes" memorandum released Friday by the CRTC. The Commission also moved forward with a one-year trial allowing the long-desired simulcast of an AM station on the FM band in the same market.

In April 2022, RBR+TVBR readers first learned of how RFS expanded the existing RFS antenna and combiner infrastructure atop 1WTC, enabling delivery of NEXTGEN TV in the New York Tri-State Area. Now, that TV station is the home of MediaCo Holding Co.'s Spanish-language broadcast TV network.

For thirty years, a nonprofit organization founded by Brent Bozell determined to clean up sex and violence portrayed on prime time television has fought for its advocates. Now, the PTC is in self-destruct mode, after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.

In the time since President Trump returned to the White House, the NAB has taken an aggressive stance on key issues that it believes are of the utmost importance to Radio and Television. In the words of President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt, the association has been on offense since Day One of the second Trump Administration.

In the eyes of the Director of Media and the Live Entertainment Equity Research head at Guggenheim Partners, the investment community and his peers in Wall Street financial houses are “still bullish” on the broadcast television sector. That said, some presently robust fountains of dollars will likely slow to a trickle in the coming years.

The TVB Executive Summit kicked off its half-day agenda at Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday with remarks from soon-to-retire President/CEO Steve Lanzano that not only welcomed in-person attendees ahead of a keynote from ANA head Bob Liodice but also revealed who Lanzano's successor will be.

"Jawboning." It's a word that the AEI's Clay Calvert used during a Wednesday online webinar hosted by the D.C. think tank to describe many of the actions they believe FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has engaged in over the last several months.

It is now clear that the FCC has listened to all sides on the thorny matter of when to stop ATSC 1.0 broadcasting. And, it will not move forward with a firm end date for the "OG" of DTV. That's according to a "FCC Fact Sheet" on a "Fifth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" outlining what Commissioners plan to vote on come October 28.

As far as Brendan Carr is concerned, the October Open Meeting of the FCC is on, signaling his confidence that the shutdown of the U.S. government will be resolved within the next three weeks.  That may be good news to the roughly 1,000 FCC staff members who received temporary furlough notices last week.

Floyd Abrams is renown as one of nation’s foremost First Amendment attorneys. He will deliver the luncheon keynote address at Forecast 2026, broadcasting’s premier executive event, presented by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink and Radio + Television Business Report.

Nexstar Media Group has completed construction of a new transmitter tower for WDVM-TV, branded as "DC News Now." The company believes investment in the new facility will enable the station to expand its delivery of local news, weather and emergency alerts to nearly 700,000 more households.