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The DOJ's Antitrust Division filed an ex parte report 2/21 with the FCC, urging the agency to crack down on joint sales agreements (JSAs), shared services agreements (SSAs), and local news service (LNS) agreements that local TV stations use to share costs. The division warned that those arrangements are undermining the FCC's media-ownership restrictions, which are “intended to promote diverse views in the media.”

The proposed FCC study of how media organizations gather news has incited a powerful backlash from

The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (ATBA) recently filed Comments with

PrecisionDemand, provider of data-driven TV ad targeting, has been awarded a patent for its proprietary automated

The panel, “Cracking the Code: Using Data to Discover the Hits,” revealed new research on predicting a hit song 2/20 at the Nashville Convention Center. The data was collected by MusicMetric, the world’s largest music data analytics firm, providing data on online consumer behavior for the entertainment industry, and by Stone Door Media Lab, headed by industry vet Jeff Green.

Attorneys for ABC Inc. urged the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 2/20 to reverse a lower judge and

The new distribution contract CBS signed with Time Warner Cable last summer could be a casualty of

Q4 2013 revenue was down to $1.69 billion from $1.7 billion a year before as a 2% decrease in its

It’s a new co-channel translator located downtown that extends the reach of 107.1—Rome Radio Partners WTSH-FM Rome, GA (60 miles NW of Atlanta). “South 107.” South 107 also covers northwest Georgia and reaches into Cobb County. Engineers have worked to make the new W296BB Jonesboro, GA simulcast with minimal interference on 107.1 where their contours overlap. It's 13 watts @ 344 ft. HAAT.

A decision was released 2/19 from Judge Dale Kimball of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Utah in favor of broadcasters granting a preliminary injunction against Aereo. Plaintiffs in the case were Community Television of Utah, LLC; KUTV-TV, FOX Broadcasting Co., and Nexstar Broadcasting.

While Politico just broke out some numbers on Michael Savage’s encouraging ratings since

Since 12/19, more than 100,000 Buckeye Cablevision subscribers have endured Sinclair’s blackout of

Santa Monica Community College’s non-comm Indie/Eclectic/NPR KCRW-FM LA and the

Kalil & Co. announced two closings on the sale of KSWT-DT (CBS) and KYMA-DT (NBC) in Yuma, AZ to Blackhawk Broadcasting. KSWT was sold by Pappas Arizona License, which together with Pappas Telecasting of Arizona, LLC, is headed by Trustee and Managing Member, David Stapleton. The station sold for...

FCC Chairman Wheeler announced 2/19 that the Commission will reinstate rules to preserve a