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The leading trade association advocating for the nation's local broadcast TV industry has released a new study investigating multimedia usage and effectiveness. The top finding? TV, viewed on the TV screen, has the highest reach and time spent of all media platforms studied, for all age groups and categories measured.

Consumers reliant on YouTube TV to view their favorite cable television channels from Paramount Global and most of the company's CBS News and Stations properties across the nation's largest markets could be in the dark come Friday morning. That's thanks to what is shaping up to be the latest retransmission consent flap.

Gray Media will broadcast Super Bowl LIX using High Dynamic Range (HDR) on all of the company's FOX-affiliated television stations available via the ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV digital broadcast standard.

The 2025 Medallas de Cortez award nominations are now open. The highly coveted awards will be presented at the 16th Hispanic Radio Conference, June 11-12 in Houston. Now is the opportunity for YOU to nominate the shining stars in the Hispanic radio industry.

On its face, the fiscal Q1 2025 results from the parent of ABC Owned Stations looks great. The company beat the estimates of analysts who chimed in on both revenue and Earnings Per Share. However, a notable decline in the number of streaming subscribers caught investors' attention, sending "DIS" down more than 2% on Wednesday.

How much is acclaimed author turned radio station owner Stephen King's group pocketing from the sale of an AM/FM combo and an FM translator serving Bangor, Me. — properties he shut down at the end of 2024 due to financial reasons? We now know the answer.

That's the somewhat skewed look at video consumption presented in a new report from Statista, which also shows robust consumption of digital videos during the same 12-month period.

So much for an impasse: Paramount has licensed new Nielsen services including Advanced Audiences, Big Data + Panel, Ad-Supported Streaming Platform Ratings, Nielsen ONE Ads for Connected Television, and National OOH expansion to inform advertising, programming and licensing strategies.

The junior Democrat serving as a FCC Commissioner has criticized the newly installed Republican leadership under the Trump Administration for its decision to fully pursue a complaint brought against one of the "Big Four" networks for apparent manipulation of a pre-election interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Curtis Media Group President/COO Trip Savery is welcoming a radio industry veteran who has joined the privately held North Carolina broadcasting company to lead its four FMs in Raleigh-Durham, as well as its digital sales enterprise and vehicular traffic network.

News that the Chairman of the FCC is ready to examine the fine line between underwriting support and paid advertisement, and if either PBS or NPR have stepped over that line improperly, has been met with derision by the two Democrats who sit on the Commission.

A Class A radio station offering Adult Contemporary music to a rural area of the Volunteer State due east of Jackson is trading hands. What could this mean for listeners of "Sunny 106.5?"

S&P Global Ratings has assigned a series of issue-level ratings and recovery ratings in response to a "liquidity enhancing" deal Sinclair Inc. announced earlier this month. And, the credit watchdog largely believes the publicly traded company is doing the right thing.

Candidates can now target specific voting districts, while stations can offer zone-specific Lowest Unit Rates. The system works with existing FM receivers, and GeoBroadcast Solutions is currently rolling out this technology across multiple markets. This marks a significant advancement in radio broadcasting's targeting capabilities. **SPONSORED CONTENT**

Aiir Inc., a provider of digital solutions for radio stations, has added support for Bluesky to Studio Inbox, its listener interaction dashboard product.