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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.

With its publicly traded shares heading toward a delisting from the OTC Pink sheet and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting its full abilities to generate strong free cash flow across its radio stations, Miami-based Spanish Broadcasting System will release its third quarter 2020 results on Monday.

If you haven't yet discovered the RBR+TVBR INFocus Podcast, presented by Dot.FM, now's your chance to get caught up on what your competition has already heard.

A Class B 50kw AM with a tower array adjacent to Dodgers Stadium is being sold by Arthur Liu's Multicultural Radio Broadcasting. The buyer is a talk host who in August was ordered to pay PBS $2.6 million for violating a morals clause in multiple sexual harassment cases. Earlier in his career, he was fired by BET, where he became a household name.

As NEXTGEN TV deployments unfold, the NAB believes broadcasters have discovered an area "where straightforward clarification of the Commission’s current rules would help broadcasters preserve existing service to viewers and a gap in the Commission’s 2017 rules that must be addressed."

RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson caught up with St. Simons Island, Ga.-based media broker Eddie Esserman in this fresh InFocus Podcast, presented by DOT.FM.  What is the deal-making market like eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic? Are there TV industry deals, or is Radio the more active of the two broadcast media? Listen to find out! LISTEN HERE

Nielsen will now measure advanced TV audiences by integrating "big data" from set-top-boxes for the two DBS players in the U.S. and one manufacturer's smart TVs while also enabling addressable TV measurement. The "advanced TV" plan allows for "the creation of a stronger linear currency," Nielsen says, adding some 55 million devices to its national TV measurement.

D2D Technologies' D2Flex 5220 has arrived, bringing the next generation IP/ASI Multiplexing Gateway to market. It replaces the D2Mux 5020 with new capabilities for up to 8 independent output streams and Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) for public internet transmission of broadcast quality video.

When the rollout on Amazon Fire TV is complete, TEGNA stations’ local news and other programming will be available to consumers on the two dominant OTT streaming media players, which comprise 70% of the U.S. market.

Until now, the Tom Syner-led Zack Media South has served as the licensee of Class D WRRL-AM in Rainelle, W. Va., and a pair of low-power TV stations serving the West Virginia cities of Beckley and Clarksburg. Now, Zack Media is adding another radio property to its media stable.

Ronald Ulloa, the youngest brother of Entravision CEO and founder Walter Ulloa, is the owner of two television stations. One of these TV siblings owned by Ronald is now officially a Los Angeles market facility -- despite its city of license, which is quite far from downtown L.A. and most of the metropolitan area.

Vocal opposition to Nielsen Audio's decision as of today appears to outweigh those who support Nielsen's business decision to delete non-subscriber station analysis from all but its costly responder data. Now, the man who created the Independent Broadcasters Association (IBA) says he's ready for Eastlan to ramp it up as a bigger competitor to Nielsen Audio.