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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has filed a lawsuit against the President of the United States and other Trump Administration officials over electronic communication that sought the termination of a trio of CPB board members.

All five FCC votemakers have OK'd a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would provide more coherent and clearly stated foreign ownership requirements for those seeking to purchase a radio or TV station in the U.S. This means a comment period in which the NAB will undoubtedly state its case is coming soon.

"People close to the discussions" have told The Wall Street Journal that Paramount Global will continue "to abstain from particular corporate diversity initiatives," one step it will take to meet FCC approval of Skydance Media's proposed merger with the company through an acquisition of National Amusements, Inc.

The longtime President/CEO of family-owned Morgan Murphy Media, a woman who led the company for some 43 years, has passed away at the age of 79 — just weeks after stepping down from the chief executive role to become board chair.

The all-new 30-minute video podcast, presented by dot.FM, features an exclusive conversation between RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson and Foster Garvey Office Managing Director and Principal Brad Deutsch. The discussion focuses on the many anticipated regulatory changes coming for Radio and TV.

She's all but certain to become the next FCC Commissioner and on April 9 participated in a nomination hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. It is now known that the Committee will vote on Olivia Trusty's nomination on April 30, which would set up a full Senate vote.

It finished Wednesday's trading session on the Nasdaq Global Market exchange at exactly $0.2699 and just before Noon on Thursday was down by more than 12% in value. Why? Investors likely learned of a SEC filing made following the close of trading indicating that Cumulus Media has decided to shift its publicly traded shares to the OTC Markets.

Media segment revenue was up 24% in Q1 2025 for Rogers Communications. Alas, that segment pales in comparison to Rogers' Wireless and Cable businesses. With Wireless growth up 1% and Cable growth flat, Rogers still managed year-over-year revenue and EPS growth. But that growth missed analyst forecasts.

FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez is partnering with select consumer and civil society organizations for speaking engagements focused on "protecting the rights and freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment and fighting back against this Administration’s ongoing campaign of censorship and control."

Lilly Broadcasting has capitalized on its ability to bring viewers across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands customized channels featuring programming from The CW, CBS and ABC. Now, Lilly is growing with the acquisition of two properties — a full-power TV station and a LPTV facility — on St. Thomas. It is also purchasing a LPTV property in Puerto Rico.

The Center for American Rights — the organization that has fueled FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's quest to investigate ABC, NBC and CBS over alleged "news distortion" — wants Carr to investigate the trio of networks "for deliberately misleading the American public" about deported El Salvador-born Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

With the change in leadership at the White House that came in late January, the man who had served as Chief of Staff for Republican FCC Commissioner Adam Cassady exited for a role at the NTIA. Thanks to Instagram — and a politically left publication's report — we now know who is succeeding Cassady.

A federal judge’s ruling that Google illegally monopolized key online advertising markets is drawing praise from the NAB, which says the decision validates long-held concerns about "Big Tech" influence over digital revenue streams critical to local journalism.

There's a new leader for several Gray Media markets across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region of the U.S. And, it is the woman who for the past seven years has been General Manager of WFSB-3 in Hartford, a former Meredith Local Media property that has long-served as Connecticut's CBS affiliate.

Global consumer media usage, including all digital and traditional media channels, increased 2.4% in 2024 to an average of 57.2 hours per week, following a sharp deceleration in time spent with media growth in 2023. That's according to new findings in a just-released report from PQ Media.