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Aereo’s local broadcast streaming service launches in the Chicagoland area on 9/13, continuing the company’s nationwide rollout

What a waste of attorney fees: Only days after Dish Network pulled its offer to acquire Sprint, it announced 6/26 that it is withdrawing its tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock of mobile service provider Clearwire Corporation, including any shares of Class A Common Stock issued in respect of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, for $4.40 per share. Dish’s tender offer “provided that it could be withdrawn, among other reasons, as a result of the recent change in recommendation by Clearwire.”

It happened just two days after letting VP/Research Martha Luszcz go in NYC: RBR-TVBR sources tell us

According to multiple sources to Digital Music News, Apple is considering penalizing any iTunes

Hungary is under review per the European Commission's Excessive Deficit Procedure, and is looking to

Discovery Communications working on an Internet streaming service for its TLC, Discovery Channel

Six Houston TX television stations were carried on cable systems owned and operated by TV Max

A $47.4 million civil verdict in Little Rock, AR on 6/21 has sent the former CEO of Equity Media

Fox Broadcasting has argued that the direction of society and technology dictate that the FCC get

According to internet audio leader Pandora, it now has a presence in more than 100 car models, and it

Total ad spend in Q1 declined 0.1% from a year ago and finished the period at $30.2 billion, according Kantar Media. Local Radio was down 1.0%; National Spot Radio was up 5.7% and Network Radio was down -15.2%. Television turned in mixed performances. Cable TV spend rose 5.2%, aided by an increase in the volume of ad time and by stronger demand from restaurants and auto manufacturers. Spanish Language TV spending increased 13.5%, its seventh consecutive quarter of double digit growth – a strong result although lower than 15% annual growth rate seen in 2012. The Spanish Language segment continues to be driven by gains among national broadcast networks.

Arbitron just filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in Milwaukee, alleging that Saga’s Lakefront

A study from Intel that is part of the record in the spectrum auction proceeding made an awesomely

Weighing in on the FCC’s indecency proceeding, Saga Communications applauded the Commission’s

For years, Americans primarily received their television programming directly over the air, but the percentage dwindled as subscriptions to various MVPD platforms skyrocketed. But a new study shows significant migration back to OTA viewership.