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"The only network operator providing a foundational one-to-many data distribution layer in the last mile," EdgeBeam Wireless, is looking back on 2025 with pride, and is excited about the ride the Boston-based "Internet of Things"-focused entity will take in 2026.

In a scathing critique, the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) has lashed out at Nielsen’s "Big Data + Panel" currency, labeling it "unstable, unpredictable" and inconsistent, making it a destabilizing metric that is "decimating demographics." A Nielsen spokesperson called the report "seriously flawed and manipulated."

A five-week measurement of November 2025 by Nielsen shows that live sports drove broadcast channels to their best "share of TV" in a year while also fueling viewer increases at streaming platforms such as NBCUniversal's Peacock and CBS-aligned Paramount+.

RBR+TVBR has confirmed the cafecito chatter around town that a notable advertising industry veteran has succeeded John Kozack at TelevisaUnivision, the world's largest Spanish-language content creation and distribution company.

She's known among viewers of FOX News Channel, FOX Nation and FOX Business and for her work appearing in such publications as Nexstar Media Group-owned Capitol Hill daily The Hill. Now, Katie Pavlich is taking a much more prominent role at the Nexstar-owned cable TV network known as NewsNation.

There's now roughly one week remaining in the holiday shopping season, with Hanukkah underway and Christmas Eve coming one week from Wednesday. As such, attracting consumers remains a key desire for retailers. That's why Walmart stepped up its spot activity at Spot Television for the week ending December 14.

That's the conclusion of new forecasts courtesy of Omdia, which state that the change will come in 2027 — marking the first time a vMVPD will claim the top position in the evolving cable television marketplace.

He's been the Radio + Television Business Report's Top Local TV Leader for the last several years, and in command of the flagship television property within Graham Media Group. Now, he's no longer associated with the NBC affiliate branded as "LOCAL 4," as he has resigned from WDIV-4 in Detroit.

Connected TV advertising player LG Ad Solutions has entered into new partnerships that the TV set manufacturer with its own "FAST" channel lineup across all of its televisions believes has established "the industry’s most robust local television dataset."

They're at it again. Three days after word surfaced that Verizon Fios was nearing an impasse over a fresh retransmission consent agreement with Cox Media Group, threating a "blackout" of the company's Pittsburgh and Boston stations, respectively, a new potential tussle over carriage rights fees has surfaced for the regional MVPD.

Gray Media plans on commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America with a company-wide storytelling project that showcases how local people, places, and moments have shaped the American story.

The entrepreneur has a fresh buyer in place for a low-power TV station serving San Francisco, after failing to sell it to Penny and David Drucker in February and, in 2024, to Scott Centers. Who's the new buyer? It's a face familiar to longtime viewers of KGO-TV who has made a name in South Asian-focused media.

The original series is cleared to air on Saturday or Sunday mornings. It is a 30-minute weekly offering set at an adoption center and sanctuary in picturesque Hopland, Calif., north of Santa Rosa along U.S. 101.

The NAB's EVP of Technology and Chief Technology Officer will be leaving that role to join the association's Advanced Technology VP in taking on new roles dedicated exclusively to the ATSC 3.0-fueled Broadcast Positioning System initiative being championed by the broadcast industry's key D.C. voice.

The Byron Allen-controlled Allen Media Group has lured a former TelevisaUnivision ad sales veteran to serve as its Chief Revenue Officer of Advertising Sales. It puts him in a key role for all of AMG's assets — including owned-and-operated broadcast TV stations that will soon be under different ownership.