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Attorneys representing Jeff Warshaw have made important calculated updates to his lawsuit against Soros Fund Management, the controlling interest holder in Audacy. It is a move designed to protect his backup legal theories in case a judge later rules no enforceable contract ever existed between the two sides.

Spanish Broadcasting System is down two members of its executive team. Chief Revenue Officer Gene Bryan has parted ways with the company, and Chief Content Officer Jesus Salas has resigned, an executive confirmed to Streamline Publishing late last week.

A U.S. District Judge has signed off on an order that presents a small victory to WGA West and a group of state Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, as Paramount Skydance has agreed to hold off closing its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery until a date that could come as late as June 1, 2027.

Unlike the shift of CBS network affiliations from a host of Nexstar-owned stations to the digital multicast signals associated with stations owned by Forum Communications and Hearst Television, respectively, Gray will place ABC on a DT1 signal. It's presently home to Gray's "Matrix Midwest" Sports offering.

It was the subject of industry rumors that began on Friday. Now, RBR+TVBR has learned that a group of CBS affiliates associated with Nexstar Media Group are losing the network come August 1, with two-year agreements in place with two companies it competes with across the impacted markets.

In September 1994, Gray Media emerged as the buyer of the CBS affiliate serving Lexington, Ky. Today, that facility offers The CW Network to the market via a digital multicast channel. In the coming months, a full-powered UHF will become its sibling, giving Gray a duopoly.

Nexstar Media Group installed a new TEGNA board comprised entirely of Nexstar’s CEO, President, CFO, General Counsel, and the former President of its broadcasting division. DirecTV says that's a problem, as it constitutes a compliance issue with a preliminary injunction issued by a California federal district judge.

Former Republican Federal Communications Commission Chairman Al Sikes and former Democratic FCC Commissioner Ervin S. Duggan have formally joined the Media and Democracy Project in its long-standing battle to get the Commission to hear its concerns regarding the license renewal of "FOX 29" in Philadelphia.

It is a decision that was largely anticipated, and will impact to some degree broadcast media across the nation. In a vote that saw Anna Gómez dissent in part, the three-member agency on Wednesday moved ahead with rules establishing the auction of 160 MHz of spectrum in the Upper C-Band by July of next year.

The interim News Director of WWL-TV in New Orleans has been promoted to the role of News Director for its NBC-aligned sibling in the St. Louis market — a move that shows the "hold separate" order preventing Nexstar Media Group from fully assimilating TEGNA's assets is very much being adhered to.

The FCC's Media Bureau has tossed a challenge to a deal agreed to in March that sees The E.W. Scripps Co. add the ABC affiliate serving Lexington, Ky., to its stable of broadcast TV stations. DirecTV argued the transaction would suffer direct economic harm due to higher input prices it would have to pay as a result of the sale.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has given the state's Attorney General, Rob Bonta, a boost in his quest to derail the pending merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery with the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order.

Dick Broadcasting Co. has agreed to sell the facility, once a simulcast partner of WQSL-FM, serving Jacksonville and Wilmington, N.C. The buyer? Look no further than Don Curtis, of Raleigh-based Curtis Media Group.

Are you getting bored with Netflix's viewing selections, despite its vast library of content? That's a chief concern of the streaming video Goliath as it looks ahead to forthcoming fiscal quarters, with keeping subscribers interested at all times the chief way it will continue to make a profit.

Skyview Networks Chairman and President/CEO Steve Jones on Wednesday announced in a company-wide meeting a series of structural adjustments that sees "a key driver of our revenue growth and portfolio expansion" take the role of Chief Operating Officer. Three others were singled out, too, as a former ESPN staffer is coming aboard.