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Jamie Kellner is widely known for being one of the lone TV industry executives to have created two new networks: FOX, and the WB. In 2023, he joined the fight to prevent WTXF-29 in Philadelphia from getting its licensed renewed. Now, Kellner is being mourned as he has died of cancer.

The audio content creation and distribution company led by CEO Mary Berner has promoted from within to take the role of Regional Vice President over Cumulus Media's Houston, Albuquerque and Tucson markets. Getting the bigger role is the VP/Market Manager in Houston.

The Media Bureau is now seeking comment on a proposal that would create a new FM station class. Importantly, this proposed FM station class would supersede a dormant plan that would have established a new “Class C4” category of FM stations in the U.S. 

In a move that could possibly lead to a thaw in regulatory policy when it comes to local broadcast television ownership limits, the FCC's Media Bureau, headed by Holly Saurer, has given its approval to a swap of stations between Marquee Broadcasting and Gray Television.

Mission Broadcasting, the licensee of broadcast TV stations run by Nexstar Media Group via shared services agreements, has formally demanded to Adell Broadcasting that it release its deposit made as part of its now-scuttled deal to purchase WADL-38 in Detroit. Adell says not so fast.

ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV broadcasts for four services serving a unique DMA that includes the nation's fastest-growing city has arrived. It is thanks to the conversion of transmissions by a Howard Stirk Holdings-owned station operated via a shared services agreement with Sinclair Inc.

It has been one year since The E.W. Scripps Co. began a “bold new approach" to its local news by making a host of changes. What went right ... and wrong? Scripps' Senior Director of Storytelling and Content Strategy, and the Executive Reporter for “Idaho News 6," shares all in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM.

TEGNA head Dave Lougee is retiring, and an August transition is expected. Who's taking on the role of President/CEO that in early 2023 many believed would be going to Deb McDermott? It is an individual with experience at the parent of wedding portal The Knot, and at NBCUniversal.

"Stronger-than-expected" spending across the first half of 2024 has led MAGNA to upwardly adjust its 2024 global ad forecast. But, is digital driving the growth — and at the expense of linear media including broadcast radio and television?

Much has changed since June 2021, when Entravision acquired a Singapore-based online ad tech company as part of a revenue diversification plan. Now, with a pending loss of revenue due to Meta's July 1 wind down of its ASP program, Entravision is spinning its digital ad rep business.

A self-revelation by a Gray Television station that's home to "Wyoming News Now" has generated a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture of significant size for the facility's failure to upload its "KidVid" children's programming records to the FCC's online public inspection file in a timely manner.

He's been with FOX properties serving the Orlando and Gainesville-Ocala markets since July 2019 and ranks at No. 2 among RBR+TVBR's Top Local TV Leaders for both 2022 and 2023. Now, Mike McClain is preparing for his retirement, and his successor has been named.

Come June 27, Matthew Davidge will debut a novel new over-the-air television brand that seeks to bridge the divide between Republicans and Democrats with "bite-sized videos and informational text" to what his new endeavor calls the "purple majority."

The FCC on Monday released a report and order that adopts "a new verification requirement" with respect to its foreign sponsorship identification requirements, while also clarifying its existing requirements as it pertains to broadcast programming offered by such organizations as Sputnik.

It describes itself as "the only end-to-end platform for media companies and agencies to grow and automate their advertising sales and operations while integrating owned and operated media." Frequence will soon have a new owner, and it's a well-known media technology company focused on local Connected TV advertising.