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Well-known journalist, attorney, and best-selling author Megyn Kelly was just one of the highlights for the concluding day of Radio's Financial Summit: FORECAST 2021 LIVE, as Kelly participated in an engaging conversation sponsored by Spanish Broadcasting System with Juliet Huddy, co-host of Curtis & Juliet on Red Apple Media's WABC-AM in New York.

A virtual Forecast 2021 LIVE, this year a two-day online event created due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, kicked off on Tuesday morning with an in-depth conversation on the novel coronavirus from an individual who many consider a medical authority on such topics: Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

It's a product primarily of interest to radio, especially for news gathering thanks to the advent of mobile devices that can gather audio and then have a means to transfer it to the professional audio structure of a radio station or editing system. Where there are many similar devices for analog audio, this is one of the few for AES digital.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV report is out, and it shows that some of the nation's top retailers are continuing to pour their ad dollars into broadcast TV.

What are you waiting for? Radio's Financial Summit, Forecast LIVE, begins Tuesday. It's the virtual version of the annual Forecast conference, considered the radio industry’s premier financial summit. And, there's still time for you to attend this year's gathering of the smartest minds in media and advertising. Get access to revenue forecasts and projections and trends.

Hearst Television stations serving communities tied to a "neighboring DMA" are being removed from Comcast's Xfinity lineups in a move directly tied to retransmission consent fee reduction. That's not sitting well with the two U.S. Senators representing Massachusetts, or two Bay State Congressmen. They want the Boston ABC affiliate kept on Xfinity in one key county.

The company that is presently in a carriage dispute with Nexstar Media Group over retransmission consent fees has just agreed to settle a telemarketing lawsuit brought against the direct broadcast satellite services provider by a host of states. The cost to Dish? It's in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Be part of the 18th annual Forecast conference, presented virtually this year as Forecast LIVE. The event will play out over two sessions: Tuesday, December 8, and Wednesday, December 9. Still on the fence? Streamline Publishing Chairman Eric Rhoads shares some of the key reasons why this is THE year you'll not want to miss out on this conference.

Retransmission consent is an increasingly troubling problem for broadcast TV. To learn more about the history of retransmission consent and why, perhaps, it is such a contentious matter, former NAB General Counsel Jack Goodman spoke with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson in this fresh InFOCUS Podcast, presented by DOT.FM. LISTEN HERE

BIA Advisory Services has released its U.S. Local Advertising Forecast for 2021. What is it predicting? Growth is the magic word, with a 2.5% year-over-year increase from a year battered by COVID-19.

Noted media analyst Gordon Borrell looked into a recently completed survey of 994 radio buyers and saw some major trends — some good, some scary. At an exclusive Forecast 2021 LIVE session, Borrell will share what advertisers and agencies said they're planning to do with radio budgets in 2021.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has approved three presidential nominations, which are now subject to approval by the full Senate. The trio of Trump selectees includes Section 230-repeal friendly choice Nathan Simington. Will the Senate approve Simington as Mike O'Rielly's FCC successor?

With five weeks remaining in what is indisputably a most difficult year, broadcast radio could be ending 2020 on an advertising high. The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Radio report shows that the No. 1 brand by play count is dominating, and that just two of the slots are tied to iHeartMedia in-house promotions. Then, there's a new effort from Ulta worth noting.

In August 2010, the Korean Gospel Broadcasting Network took on ownership of an AM at 1190 kHz, serving the entire Los Angeles market. In April 2018, it filed an application for an FM translator with the FCC. The Media Bureau eventually said no, leading KGBN-AM 1190's licensee to file an Application for Review. The full Commission has now released its decision.

How did radio leaders manage to navigate the COVID-19 fueled storm that decimated ad revenues, strained resources, shut down studios, and had staffs scrambling to set up remote office locations? Four of radio’s top executives will share their answers in a wide-ranging conversation with Publisher Deborah Parenti at the Forecast Live 2021 conference virtual event.