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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.

As RBR+TVBR has shared with readers across 2025, ad dollars to content publishers and broadcasters have only come in spurts. A newly released report from WARC examines the conundrum — along with a potentially alarming shift in ad spend from what WARC calls "professionally produced content" to "user-generated and 'creator-journalists'."

Multiscreen TV encourages ailment sufferers to educate themselves for better health. That is a chief takeaway from the newly released Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) report, "Dedicated to Your Good Health: How TV Drives Discovery & Encourages Education in the Pharma DTC Category."

The NAB's legal team late Friday filed a 145-page manifesto with the FCC that repeats its request for the elimination of the national TV ownership rule. Of note is a new request from the association that says the Commission "should scale back rules that micromanage radio broadcasts."

One month ago, Gray Media cheered the first new combination of top-four rated television stations this decade, with the FCC under Chairman Brendan Carr granting a waiver of its local ownership rules. The Carr Commission has now approved a deal that puts Brian and Patricia Lane on a fast track to closing.

One of the most frustrating results of a retransmission consent dispute that results in a channel "blackout," by law, is the inability to view one of the nation's "Big Four" networks. Dish Network parent EchoStar Corp. is asking the Commission to help viewers in these instances by plugging in a national feed.

The owner of broadcast TV stations including flagship properties WBFF-45 and WNUV-54 in Baltimore and The Tennis Channel, in addition to broadcast tower manufacturer Dielectric, has moved forward with its "strategic entry" into the media-for-equity space. What does this mean for publicly traded Sinclair?

With 10 astronauts in the room and many of her family members present, Olivia Trusty was warmly received by both Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday morning, as President Trump's nominee to serve as the next Federal Communications Commission's GOP-aligned Commissioner was heralded on Capitol Hill.

A "member town hall" held during the 2025 NAB Show on Tuesday served as the venue for the unveiling of "broadcasters' policy priorities" to guide advocacy in the current Congress, delivered directly to the group by the President/CEO of the nation's key advocacy organization for over-the-air radio and TV.