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As RBR+TVBR exclusively reported on Thursday, Ralph Oakley, who led the former Quincy Media, Inc., is returning to ownership and coming out of retirement. A new LLC formed by Oakley is acquiring a Nexstar Media Group TV property. We now know who served as Nexstar's broker of record.

By April 2022, the man who led Quincy Media, Inc., was all but retired, as he was honored with a Broadcasters Foundation of America Leadership Award. Now, in a surprise, Oakley has just returned to broadcast TV station ownership. And, it is thanks to a deal with Perry Sook-led Nexstar.

Verizon FiOs has shared its thoughts with the FCC regarding a plan that would provide rebates to customers in the event local TV stations are blocked, by law, from viewing due to the lack of a retransmission consent agreement. In short, it's calling out the Commission for overstepping its authority.

Sinclair Inc. has announced when it will share with analysts, investors and the general public its first quarter 2024 financial results. What can they expect to hear from the owner of broadcast television stations, tower company Dielectric, ad sales entity Compulse, and Tennis Channel?

Pro-cable TV advocacy group ACA Connects in March expressed its disappointment in a 3-2 vote by the Commission to establish an "all-in pricing order" for the cable television industry, designed to give consumers billing clarity. Now DirecTV has shared its thoughts, and its displeased, too.

In 1995, "Machine Translation" was a great concern among professional translators. Nearly 30 years later, translation and dubbing services may not require a human after all, thanks to GenAI and its rapid ascent in the broadcast media marketplace. And, among its first users is Sinclair.

The developer of a proprietary AI-powered platform that includes the subscription ad-deletion streaming service for radio branded as faidr has been awarded a U.S. patent for the core technology powering the smartphone app. The news sent the company's stock soaring on Monday.

"A station assigned by Nielsen to one DMA but physically located in another .... has two local markets in which it may simultaneously demand carriage," the Media Bureau Policy Division Senior Deputy Chief ruled in a matter involving DISH.

It was all but certain that Roger Wahl, a convicted felon, would be stripped of his broadcast license for an FM radio station in Somerset County, Pa., after an August 2022 determination from the FCC's Administrative Law Judge. This week, Wahl was officially given a revocation order.

While final voting tallies are subject to certification by Disney’s independent inspector of elections, it appears the battle waged by dissident shareholder Nelson Peltz for new leadership and a fresh business direction is over. What's next for Disney? Analysts at MoffettNathanson shared their thoughts.

Republicans don’t want it. Democrats do, and with three votes the return of Title II classification for broadband services appears to be a lock — turning the clock back to the Wheeler Commission rule change reversed by the Commission under Ajit Pai.

In a major victory for GeoBroadcast Solutions, overcoming widespread opposition from various radio industry voices, the FCC has adopted changes to its rules that will allow FM booster stations to originate programming — "subject to future adoption of processing, licensing, and service rules" as proposed in a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

CBS has signed an agreement that sees it retain Gray Television's in-house news research and consulting group as a provider of market research and news consulting services to all 14 CBS owned and operated television stations.

The Spanish-language broadcast TV network owned by the privately held media company led by CEO Peter Markham has added an affiliate for the San Francisco DMA.  It's thanks to a newly signed agreement with an individual known for his service to South Asian consumers.

MSG National Properties LLC is shedding a big chunk of its stake in Townsquare Media, thanks to a repurchasing agreement executed by the owner of local radio stations in mid-sized and small-sized markets as well as a digital marketing solutions company and a digital advertising network.