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A free music video streaming app for TVs will be made available to a vast majority of smart TV owners. What wasn't previously known is how one of broadcast television's biggest companies — and one of the key pushers of NEXTGEN TV — is backing ROXi as a partner.

The NAB appears to have picked up on the industry-wise buzz by sending out a marketing e-mail on Day One of CES gushing about what's to come once the NAB Show begins in April.  "Try to contain yourself…ok, scratch that. It’s time to full-on freak out!," the NAB exclaims in promoting "Brand-New Cool" for its own show.

Scripps has signed a local advertising deal that will feature the use of a Detroit-headquartered company’s AI technology across all 61 of its owned and operated broadcast stations.

RBR+TVBR has confirmed that a breach of contract suit filed August 16 in a California federal district court by a creator of "viral hit shows" and podcasts against Audacy Inc. has been resolved.

The evolution of The E.W. Scripps Co.'s local leadership for its broadcast television stations continues, as the Cincinnati-headquartered company has named Station Managers for its properties in Southwest Florida, the capital of the Sunshine State, and in Oklahoma's second-largest market.

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.