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For decades, FOX Deportes and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises have been challengers, of sorts, for viewers and ad dollars when it came to sports coverage of interest to U.S. Hispanics. Now, in a historic first, the two entities are coming together for the sporting world's biggest annual event. 

A broadcast television station that from its December 1953 sign-on through the end of July 2020 served as Alaska's primary CBS affiliate is being sold by the GCI subsidiary that has owned it since November 2013. The buyer is the leading PBS Member serving the nation's 49th state.

With much of Central Florida lacking electricity as the sun rose on Thursday, local radio and TV stations were offering a variety of updates from journalists and listeners themselves — offering vital updates on the aftermath of a storm unlike any other the Sunshine State has faced.

A family feud involving an ousted Chief Executive Officer and his twin brother who he had been at odds with over the future of their parents’ media business has ended, with the CEO back in the role after heading to a Lucas County, Ohio, court.

New research released this week by TVB, conducted for the advocacy group by Dynata, shows that during Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Francine, the latter of which impacted areas of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana, the main information source for residents in a time of crisis — and the most trusted — is a local broadcast TV station.

Rick Kaplan and Curtis LeGeyt believe " it is critical the Commission study the impact video streaming has had on local television broadcasting." And, regulating virtual MVPDs such as YouTube TV like a MVPD such as Comcast or Charter is their suggestion.

Three more Major League Baseball teams are ditching the television rights and distribution agreements of the 2024 season by having the league itself produce and distribute telecasts of their non-national games for the 2025 season. In addition, the Texas Rangers confirmed they will no longer be partnering with Diamond Sports Group.

The National Hockey League club that took its players from Phoenix and created a new team in Salt Lake City has already faced its first interference penalty just days before the puck drops at UBS Arena in New York on Thursday evening. It's thanks to a retransmission consent impasse between The E.W. Scripps Co. and the parent of MVPD Xfinity.

The advocacy group seeking a denial by the FCC of the license renewal for a FOX Television Stations property serving Philadelphia has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request with the Commission seeking copies "of any and all official and personal communications" from or to its two Republican Commissioners that may pertain to FOX or the group's own petition.

Broadcasters Foundation of America President Tim McCarthy says, “We’ve already approved over half a dozen requests and that’s just the beginning. Based on the number of requests from previous disasters, we know that figure will grow significantly as those impacted by the storm assess their damage and determine the costs."

For quarter after quarter in recent years, the "local first" media company that derives the majority of its revenue from its digital advertising and marketing assets has prided itself on its non-broadcast revenue prowess. Now, it is linking up with the company founded by veteran radio industry executive Carl Parmer to help that radio station ownership group with its digital solutions dollar opportunities.

Nexstar Media Group has told the SEC in a filing made Friday that it has eliminated the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer. As such, Michael Strober will leave the company founded and led by Perry Sook at the end of October.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird on Thursday co-led a letter with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to Congress in support of "life-saving AM radios" as car manufacturers remove them from new models.

To gain a firsthand account of communications recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which cut a swath through the Florida "Big Bend" area before barreling through eastern Georgia and Western North Carolina, the Chairwoman of the FCC was scheduled to visit both Charlotte and Asheville on Friday.

Back in March, Educational Media Foundation announced its purchase of four Salem Media signals spread between Nashville and Honolulu for $7 million. The Christian radio giant is now recouping some of that purchase price in the new sale of one of the three licenses formerly simulcasting "94 FM The Fish" to Music City, U.S.A.