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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.

He was a keynote speaker at the virtual 2020 Radio Show — a selection some suggested was made because a transaction involving AM and FM radio stations was in the works for this media mogul. Alas, that's not happened. But, Allen Media Group -- the company founded by Byron Allen -- has made a big acquisition. Only, it further cements his stature in broadcast television.

Nielsen Holdings plc will report its financial results for the third quarter of 2020 on Thursday, November 5. The company will host a conference call to discuss its results at 8am Eastern on that date.

Ravi Kapur has gained notice as the owner of a television broadcasting company that began with a low-power digital facility atop Chicago's Willis Tower and in January 2015 officially took control of KRDK-4, the former KXJB, in Fargo, N.D. Now, Kapur's Major Market Broadcasting is growing again. The seller? A 93-year-old L.A. radio station owner.

Hispanic radio’s leaders have always been a dynamic and creative group of strategists and innovators. What’s on their minds in a new decade with a most interesting start? That's just one of the questions up for discussion in the concluding Hispanic Radio Conference LIVE online session, moderated by the NAB President/CEO. It's scheduled for 11:30am Thursday.