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If not, don't fret: the All-New Spring 2023 RBR+TVBR Special Report is available for download right here! You'll find an exclusive chat with Daniel Anstanding from Futuri about AI-powered radio. Plus, you'll find an exclusive interview with Dick Wiley, along great NAB Show insight — and that's just for starters.

A 57-page Mandamus Request was submitted with the court on March 28. On Friday, it was denied. This puts the proposed TEGNA transaction, which also sees Cox Media Group majority owner Apollo Global Management take on a significant non-voting majority stake in a "new TEGNA," in serious peril.

Nexstar Media Group is taking its NewsNation channel, distributed via MVPDs across the U.S., to a 24/7 programming schedule. The new offerings commence on Monday.

At the end of the day, there's been one constant over the 100 years of the NAB, even in today's dramatically changing media landscape: Localism. Yet, fragmentation took up much of the conversation as NAB head Curtis LeGeyt participated in a Welcome Session Q&A with Univision/Los Angeles journalist Gabriela Teissier.

That's the message many in the radio industry are crowing about, as the Internet Advertising Bureau, in partnership with pwc, on Wednesday released the Internet Advertising Revenue Report for the full year of 2022.

Users of the Audacy app are being asked to answer a five-question survey that presents some extremely specific questions how much they'd pay for "commercial-free radio on your favorite station" — a sign the company is seriously considering a paid tier, even as digital advertising growth continues to outpace linear ad attraction.

Soon, WURN-FM and its blend of Spanish Adult Contemporary "Exitos" will reach more of Miami-Dade County. The station's owners have GeoBroadcast Solutions to thank for the long-awaited boost to a signal licensed to Key Largo, Fla.

How can prose make your public speaking perfectly rosy? "Poetry is an exercise in communicating the most while talking the least," says veteran public relations executive Rosemary Ravinal. "Think about it this way: Poetry is like having a powerful live voice in a small package."

Hitachi Kokusai will demonstrate its latest 4K UHD camera systems at the NAB Show, and product debuts include an upgradeable camera system for professional live events and broadcast production with a cost-efficient path to 4K, and a next generation box camera for use in a variety of applications.

At the 2022 NAB Show, the biggest news among broadcast technology executives was the announcement that Thomson Broadcast has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GatesAir from an affiliate of The Gores Group. Now, the man who has served as CEO of GatesAir since 2017 is retiring, and his successor has just been named.

Nominations are closing soon for the 2023 Medallas de Cortez awards. The honors recognize outstanding professionals and organizations in the radio industry who have made significant contributions in all areas of Hispanic radio. Winners will be announced at the Hispanic Radio Conference in Miami.

For the last week of Women’s History Month, Rosemary Ravinal took a deep dive into the reasons why women and men speak differently. "It is a fact that there are gendered ways of communicating which may hold women back from their highest potential," she writes.

Two days ago, Standard General, the hedge fund led by Soohyung Kim, filed suit against the FCC in a Washington, D.C., Federal Appeals Court as part of its efforts to keep its TEGNA privatization effort on track. That hasn't stopped the Commission in any way from moving forward with its Hearing Designation Order.

While macro forecasts are downbeat and warning signals abound, they conclude that most media executives and ad forecasters, including two MoffettNathanson analysts, are still expecting this year’s ad market to be stronger in the last six months of 2023 than in the first half of year. Yet, there's one unanswered question: Where is this confidence coming from? 

In perhaps an unprecedented move, Standard General, the New York-based hedge fund led by Soohyung Kim, filed suit on Tuesday against the FCC in a Washington, D.C., Federal Appeals Court as part of its desperate efforts to keep its TEGNA privatization effort on track.