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TEGNA is preparing to start 2025 with a refreshed executive leadership team, but just how is the third quarter going to be for the broadcast TV station ownership group? All will be revealed on the same day industry peer Nexstar reveals its Q3 2024 result

Xperi Inc.-owned DTS has brought to market a new on-device tool that taps into the latest advancements in AI-based audio processing to improve dialogue intelligibility for television audio.

In October 2008, after months of delays, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio formally merged. Today, after many believed it wouldn't last, Sirius XM is doing just fine, with profits coming in recent quarters after years and years of questionable performance. Now, it has kicked off "a new phase" as an independent public company.

It may sound like a bold prediction or crafty marketing language, but the company known for its ownership of National Post, news and entertainment portal Canoe.com and the Sun brand of tabloid publications says it will launch a studio as part of "an ambitious project aimed at transforming the Canadian media landscape" in the wake of the Online Streaming Act's passage.

What sets Nexstar Media Group apart from its peers in the television broadcasting space? With a stock price that far exceeds that of other over-the-air station licensees, founder and CEO Perry Sook and Chief Financial Officer Lee Ann Gliha had much to tout during a "fireside chat" held Wednesday during the Citi 2024 Global TMT Conference.

In this exclusive chat, conducted in early June, Pio Ferro opens up about working for a privately held broadcast group, how great content can drive revenue and advertiser ROI, and why a Foo Fighters/Becky G mashup may not be the best of ideas. It's all in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM.

"We're improving digital FM radio service." That's how FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel posits a coming vote by all five Commissioners at the September Open Meeting on a plan that would streamline the process for allowing digital transmissions at different power levels on the upper and lower digital sidebands.

YouTube moved into the lead among media distributors in the July 2024 Media Distributor Gauge report, Nielsen’s monthly view of total TV consumption by media company. Thank the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which began on July 26, for the big bump, which also positively impacted NBCUniversal.

A quartet of FM radio stations are moving forward with filings seeking the FCC's approval for the use of GeoBroadcast Solutions' "ZoneCasting" technology as part of plan to make their stations "hyper-local" — and potentially more lucrative in an addressable advertising world.

Can fiscally strained Corus Entertainment, with its shares at 15 cents CDN going into Tuesday's trading on the TSX, benefit in any way from the premiere of new seasons from returning and first-time series airing on its Global television network? That's a question some investors may be asking today.

With SiriusXM just days away from finalizing its stock-consolidation merger with Liberty Media Corporation, shareholders have approved a plan where Liberty Media will exchange existing SiriusXM shares for new shares in “SplitCo,” which will get a new name next month.

The two-day curriculum presented by RAB, in conjunction with BMI, the MIW not-for-profit group and Xperi Inc., focused on the specific needs of women in radio leadership or those aspiring to move into leadership positions. The program worked to enhance their overall knowledge and skills.

He joined ABC News as a freelance video editor based in London in 1998 and for the past 26 years has held various roles within ABC News. Now, he's been elevated to President, reporting to Debra OConnell, the President of News Group and Networks under the Disney Entertainment arm.

The new Chief Product & Technology Officer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN has been selected, and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden and ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro all came together to share the news.

A major water main break near the Jacques Cartier Bridge brought significant troubles to the city of Montréal on Friday morning, with Bell Media's broadcast radio and television station studios and offices shuttered following the incident.