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TV audience measurement company iSpot.tv has launched a dedicated streaming measurement offering, along with a new set of metrics that it claims "empower hundreds of advertisers and publishers with a fast, reliable independent system for tracking audience consumption of Connected TV advertising, at scale."

Audacy's voluntary Chapter 11 filing is designed to resolve its $1.9 billion in debt. To do it, Audacy shareholders that don't cash out now stand to lose out on their entire investment. This sent shares tumbling further on Monday. Meanwhile, it became known that Audacy has offered employees a retention bonus.

After 22 years of service against competitors that today include Scripps, TEGNA, Gray, and owned-and-operated properties from TelevisaUnivision and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, Lynn Londen is handing the keys to KAZT "AZ7" to the No. 1 licensee of broadcast TV stations in the U.S.

Ahead of CES 2024's start this week in Las Vegas, NBCUniversal has unveiled how it is changing the media industry's interpretation of cross-platform, audience-based advertising by bringing a full-scale launch of its much-hyped One Platform Total Audience platform.

Lombardo, a well-known broadcast media industry figure, served as NAB Joint Board Chairman and Chair of the Broadcasters Foundation of America. Under his leadership, the BFoA's annual financial assistance grew to nearly $850,000, from $60,000.

While the 2018 Quadrennial Order approved by the FCC in a party-line vote under federal court order was disappointing to broadcasters and the 2022 Quadrennial Order is still far from completion, the NAB has made it clear that the FCC has missed an opportunity to update "outdated, decades-old rules."

The local commercial broadcast television and radio industry generates $1.23 trillion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 2.52 million jobs through direct and stimulative effect on the American economy. That's the key takeaway from a new study from Woods & Poole Economics produced with support from BIA Advisory Services.

A newly released report from the University of North Carolina offers some rosy predictions for 2024. Specifically, it suggests that news executives and entrepreneurs who understand the opportunity that can come from investment in local media by the state's ad buyers will make more money. 

In a major advancement for Sinclair Inc., its four nationally distributed digital multicast networks are being brought to viewers in some of the nation's biggest DMAs for the first time. It's thanks to agreements just announced by the Baltimore-based media company and its new partner, Paramount Global.

The plaintiff, a former WCVB-5 in Boston videographer, charges he suffered religious discrimination for losing his job by not adhering to Hearst's COVID-19 vaccination requirement for all employees. Last week, Hearst presented a Federal District Court information that he takes other medications — thus nullifying his entire case, Hearst argues.

A "comprehensive, multi-year deal" is now in place that keeps NBC network affiliation agreements for TEGNA stations in some 20 markets including Phoenix; Buffalo-Niagara Falls; and Portland, Ore.

It's hardly a secret that the broadcast television industry's reliance on retransmission consent revenue growth is an essential part of pleasing investors by bringing a stronger path to profits. MoffettNathanson examined closely the last six years, with respect to affiliate fee and retrans growth. The trends are concerning for cable TV.

A reporter who has covered "financial distress, volatility and restructuring" for The Wall Street Journal is sharing the news that, according to sources, Audacy has reached an agreement with senior lenders that will give it the funds necessary to commence a voluntary Chapter 11 restructuring process. Will the Field family lose control?

The "sports first" vMVPD that sees John Janedis serve as its Chief Financial Officer has just reached a new comprehensive multi-year distribution deal with the nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast television stations.

With a deal with the NBA's Phoenix Suns already locked in, December 2023 began with chatter over a similar deal in New Orleans. This followed a late September revelation that Gray was launching a Georgia-wide "Peachtree Sports Network." Now, it is official: Gray has two more NBA teams in its on-air stable.