Legacy

The Excellence in Economic Analysis Award recognizes Commission staff for outstanding economic analysis conducted in the course of their work at the FCC, while the Excellence in Engineering Award recognizes Commission staff who have made outstanding engineering, scientific, or technical contributions.

With powerful Hurricane Helene nearing Florida's Big Bend and "Forgotten Coast" ahead of bringing strong rain, wind and potential flooding concerns to Tallahassee, Fla.; and Georgia, DirecTV has launched a Severe Weather Channel and four-channel Severe Weather Mix mosaic, with the latter featuring coverage from an array of local broadcast TV stations.

A 35-year veteran of local broadcast television since November 2017 has served as VP/GM of Cox Media Group's CBS affiliate in Jacksonville — along with the FOX affiliate it operates via a shared services agreement.  On December 31, he'll officially retire from the industry.

She has served as Assistant News Director for ABC Owned Stations' WLS-7 in Chicago since 2022. Now, she's getting a promotion to VP of Marketing, a role that puts her in control of local programming, marketing and design.

Wade Davis is no longer the Chief Executive Officer of TelevisaUnivision, the company announced early Thursday, after reports in The New York Times and Reuters distributed Wednesday evening cited unnamed sources close to the matter that a change in leadership was imminent. Who's his successor?

A full Committee markup of some 16 bills including the AM radio legislation are being teed up for a session scheduled for 10am Wednesday on Capitol Hill. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers will oversee the markup session, and it will be a busy one.

The Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report for the week ending September 15 shows that two QSRs dominated by spot play across the cable television networks it measures. At the same time, a weight loss drug is now in the Spot Ten, adding some irony to the list of key cable TV advertisers.

If you're a RBR+TVBR Premium Member, you’ve already received a VIP e-mail with your link to the Radio + Television Business Report's all-new Summer 2024 Special Report. It’s a 40-page digital magazine available via PDF download and contains exclusive interviews with Michael J. Hayes of Hearst Television, a cover interview with Leo MacCourtney and lots more — including our Broadcast Best Finance Leaders rankings for this year!

The team led by Vincent Létang has issued a report that backs up a forecast from Brian Wieser released earlier this month, concluding that full-year non-cyclical ad spend will grow by 8.9% — up from its previous prediction of 8.2% growth. For MAGNA, this represents one of the best performances in 20 years. That said, the headwinds will continue for broadcast radio companies.

It's known for being the first city in the U.S. that's still standing today, and attracts tourists year-round. Now, this locale between Flagler County, to the south, and the sprawling Jacksonville area to the north is seeing the transfer of an FM translator to a radio group led by VP/GM David Ayres.

Former President Donald Trump has suggested ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses for how its news team decided to handle Tuesday night's debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris. The Chairwoman of the FCC offered a blunt response, negating any chance of that happening.

Football’s dominance as America’s favorite sport is highlighted by National Football League (NFL) and NCAA College Football games being televised on broadcast and cable, as well as on streaming services. But, when it comes to how fans watch game-day coverage and the play-by-play, traditional channels win, a new TVB study finds.

“TiVo has always been at the forefront of innovation, and the recently-launched smart TVs are no exception,” said Xperi CEO Jon Kirchner. “We pride ourselves on understanding the end-user better than others and are leveraging those insights to help partners provide a more user-centric TV model. We’re excited to bring enhanced TV experiences to consumers around the world.”

Comcast's TV ad industry tech platform FreeWheel has moved forward with the integration of Samba TV's standard and custom audience segments into the FreeWheel Audience Manager platform. The product offering is designed to give publishers faster cross-screen audience activation on behalf of advertising clients.

It had been the home of veteran communications law attorney Gregg Skall and is the firm with associated with retired FCC attorney John Garziglia. Now, Womble Bond Dickinson is growing, thanks to a merger with another law firm.