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At age 83, Gene Loving has experienced a lot across more than six decades in the radio industry. Now, he's decided to focus on his company's radio stations east of the Rocky Mountains by selling a pair of rimshot FMs with boosters allowing them to cover the Denver market.

It became a big talking point across Wednesday afternoon and into Thursday. David Zaslav, the head of Warner Bros. Discovery, had a meeting with Bob Bakish, the CEO of Paramount Global, to discuss a potential merger.  What does Wall Street think of the chat? For MoffettNathanson Senior Analyst Robert Fishman, the analysis was blunt.

The heads of Mid-West Family Broadcasting and Connoisseur Media were joined by one of D.C.'s most high-profile communications attorneys for a Monday Zoom meeting with two members of Anna Gómez's office to discuss the 2018 Quadrennial Review — which the FCC is under a court order to complete in 10 days.

A helicopter pilot and a photographer working on behalf of the ABC Owned Stations broadcast TV property serving Philadelphia were killed Tuesday evening after their chopper crashed in Washington Township, N.J.

Marketing spending and multicultural advertising targeted to U.S. Hispanic, Black and Asian consumers is expected to grow by a healthy 8.4% in 2004 — a sharp rebound from a 5.7% decrease in 2023. That's according to new data released on Tuesday from PQ Media.

With the Netflix film "Leave The World Behind" getting lots of attention for its central themes of cyber vulnerability and hacking possibilities that could cripple a nation, the subject of internet security is as important as ever. For Comcast's Xfinity MVPD, it is now sharing details of a "data security incident" that transpired two months ago. And, it involves Citrix.

The company's shares last closed above the all-important $1 threshold on May 15. Now, the Board of Directors at Comscore seeks to resolve that Nasdaq non-compliance matter by engineering a reverse stock split.

For longtime NPR listeners and PBS viewers, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a long-familiar source of financial support. Now, the foundation is putting millions of dollars in grants toward what it calls "a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news and information."

Earlier this week, Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks shared his view that the Commission needs to reinstate its efforts related to broadcast workforce data reporting.  His words attracted the attention of two Senators and two dozen House Members, who have written to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel asking her to act.

In a move the company says reflects its commitment to local journalism and service to the communities its stations serve, Cox Media Group has appointed a VP/News and, at the same time, a VP of Strategy and Operations.

Nelson Peltz is so convinced he deserves a seat on the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company that he has moved forward with nominating himself for a chair, leaving it up to Disney shareholders to decide if he and a second candidate — a former Disney CFO — deserve to be elected.

In October, NEXTGEN TV signals for the local stations serving the New York Tri-State Area from CBS, NBC and The WNET Group were lit up. Some of the nation's most-watched stations did not participate in that ATSC 3.0 "lighthouse" launch. Now, they've moved forward via a third NYC NEXTGEN TV facility.

MoffettNathanson on Wednesday released a U.S. advertising and e-commerce investor note that took a retrospective look of how it made the case a few years ago that future advertising growth will be driven by lower-funnel ad solutions and measurement. Guess what? "The trends seem to be reverting to our original thesis," they conclude.

For viewers of "Erie News Now" who have been relying on Dish to deliver the broadcasts provided by Lilly Broadcasting's stations in the DMA, they received a possible disruption warning. That's because Lilly and Dish on December 9 went to battle over a still unresolved retransmission consent deal. 

DISH Media has signed a deal that will allow for interactive ad units on live and on-demand inventory on SLING TV, the vMVPD owned by Dish.  It brings the in-vogue addressable advertising solution to the television service. But, will over-the-air television benefit in any way?