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Want to watch the Black Media Symposium again, or for the first time? Here's how you can view this FREE hour-long online event, with links to Facebook and YouTube available for you.

In mid-April, with the COVID-19 pandemic at full tilt, RBR+TVBR's Editor-in-Chief penned a column focused on potential news burnout. "Thankfully, there is local radio, which, at one station in Detroit, has done an exemplary job of demonstrating just how valuable it is in a time of emotional need and national emergency." Today, we revisit Cumulus Media's WDVD-FM.

Are social justice initiatives designed to elevate the Black community in the U.S. "trendy," or representative of a real sea change?  What role does Black Media play in this ... and what exactly is Black Media? Key Black media leaders tackled these topics and more during Wednesday's first-ever Black Media Symposium, a RBR+TVBR online event presented by Triton Digital.

The Black Media Symposium, a free digitally-delivered event presented by Triton Digital, is at 11:30am today! Be sure to join us and click here for details and access to the event. For a quick bite of what esteemed African American journalist Roland Martin has to say about Black Media, click "read more" now!

Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink has released its most popular issue of the year. With six executives bumped off the rankings, there are new faces that made the list. Who's on top?

The data side of NEXTGEN TV is only now getting a much-deserved spotlight, and a Tuesday webinar presented by Sinclair Broadcast Group and its ONE Media 3.0 arm certainly served as a big industry platform for sharing just some of the ways broadcast TV stations can monetize from the new technology.

You have only until 5pm Eastern today to submit your nominations for our inaugural Top Local TV Leaders list. Who are America's top TV Market Managers and station GMs? It's up to you! VOTE HERE

This is one conversation you don't want to miss. We'll be discussing the issues that have challenged a nation and the media that covers it. And we'll be taking your questions. Join us on Wednesday, August 19, at 11:30am on Facebook Live and YouTube for this very special hour-long event.

In a preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the August 19 Black Media Symposium, RBR+TVBR spoke with event participant DuJuan McCoy. He's the owner of two TV stations in Indianapolis. Are there positives to being an independent operator at this time? How has 2020 impacted initial plan of action? We get the answers.

On January 31, two Indianapolis TV stations fell dark on DirecTV, as a retrans consent deal agreed to by the stations' prior ownership lapsed. Six months later, a new deal remains absent. Now, the stations' owner has taken DirecTV parent AT&T to court. He's says it is now a matter of racial discrimination. AT&T responded with a statement to RBR+TVBR.

This new series places a focus on ways to leverage “Made for Radio” standards and technologies—MPX, µMPX, MPX node, E2X, HD Radio PAR, and Virtualization—to solve nagging air-chain issues and open the door to new and easier implementations of HD Radio transmission opportunities.

In a brief statement, the NAB said Smith is responding well to treatment, is stable and alert, and is resting comfortably. Well-wishers took to Twitter to express their thoughts, while Gray Television's CEO paused to salute Smith at the start of his company's Q2 earnings call on Thursday.

The nation's biggest audio media company will report its second quarter 2020 results on Thursday. Do investors expect some not-so-great news? IHRT was off by 5.7% on Wednesday, with share values steadily streaming downward across the day.

On July 29,  Zacks Equity Research offered its prediction on how Sinclair Broadcast Group's second quarter results would pan out. It anticipated Q2 revenue $1.42 billion, up 83.8% from the year-ago quarter. How accurate was Zacks? Unfortunately, Sinclair came up a bit short. 

just how far did some radio broadcasting companies sink in the three month period ending June 30? The answer to this question will fully unfold over the next three business days as iHeartMedia, Entercom and Cumulus Media each roll out their Q2 2020 results. For Saga Communications, which distributed its results Wednesday, a 47.6% slash in year-to-year net revenue is the first takeaway.