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Hispanic consumers are 12% more likely than the total population to not have a cable or satellite subscription while some 62% are currently “cordless.” Concurrently, some 28% of U.S. Hispanics are content with their conventional TV service. Those are some of the key findings from a new Hispanic consumer research report.

Thanks to its debtor-in-possession status, iHeartMedia won't be holding a conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss its first quarter results. Instead, it made an SEC filing late Wednesday that paints a solid picture for a company inching closer to exiting Chapter 11.

How will broadcast advertising revenues in the U.S. be affected? Where are the biggest areas of opportunity? And how will AI alter the landscape? A panel of experts will share their perspectives and insights in a provocative opening Forecast 2025 session on November 13 at the Harvard Club in the City of New York.

DISH Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp. have reached an agreement that transfers the bulk of the company's Broadcast Satellite Service (BSS) business to DISH in an all-stock transaction. The deal will see DISH take on nine direct broadcast satellites and "certain key employees."

While the NAB argues that consumers that subscribe to either DISH or DirecTV should get their closest "local" channel, as technology has rendered The Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act obsolete, the ATVA very much feels otherwise.

Forthcoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appeared Friday morning on "Squawk On The Street," a feature on CNBC that saw the successor-in-waiting to Jessica Rosenworcel discuss "some of his deregulatory plans, bias in tech and the media and how it could be addressed from the FCC."

On Tuesday, the steady and punishing slide for Comscore's shares seemingly reached its zenith, with a big private stock sale designed to raise millions in cash getting a big thumbs down from Wall Street. A 18% slide for SCOR was logged. On Wednesday, the bleeding continued.

As part of a multibillion-dollar merger between Charter Communications and John Malone's Liberty Broadband, a former CBS affiliate serving Alaska's biggest market is seeing a change in its ownership structure. This requires FCC approval — even though an October 2024 deal was struck to sell the property to Alaska Public.

On July 18-19, the Arkansas Broadcasters Association celebrated its 70th year as a trade association for broadcasters operating in the state. One of the keynote speakers was FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, who shared with the friendly crowd what he's heard from broadcasters across the U.S.

Sinclair Inc. is a multi-pronged media company in the driver’s seat on bringing groundbreaking broadcast technology to the world, thanks to its forward-thinking investments. For the company’s veteran tech executive, Del Parks, that’s been a core tenet of his work since Day One — in 1971.

Nearly two years ago, twin FMs in a simulcast aired a weather teaser for its morning show that included a simulation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) attention signal. That's a no-no, and the FCC has now acted against the properties, owned by Meruelo Media.

The six radio brands serving St. Louis owned by the nation's largest owner of broadcast radio stations have a new leader, and it is a longtime community figure who began her career as a morning show producer at KSD Radio in St. Louis.

RBR+TVBR has confirmed that the entity that owns and operates both NBC and Telemundo broadcast TV stations has shifted away from traditional ratings points to gauge an advertising campaign's effectiveness. Instead, it will use impressions.

The updated forecast shows “slight” adjustments to previous estimates for 2025, with advertising revenue (excluding political) adjusted up by a meager 0.03 percent from the last forecast and total local ad revenue, including political spending, adjusted up by 0.1 percent.

With TEGNA OK with Charter's Spectrum on a new retrans deal, Fox Corporation can celebrate the prevention of a "blackout" of its stations on another major national MVPD.