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Word trickled across the broadcast media industry on Tuesday that Cox Media Group was not exploring a sale of its 61 radio stations but, rather, a merger or partnership with another entity for its 14 TV stations. One media broker RBR+TVBR spoke with on a condition of anonymity scratched his head and wondered aloud: 'How can Radio not be next?'

The new on-campus student laboratory will bring producers from Gray Television stations around the nation to Loyola to help coach and educate aspiring producers, as well as give lectures on all aspects of production in the television broadcast industry.

Here's a transaction that may seem unusual: iHeartMedia is parting ways with a TV station. It's a move that comes more than a decade after predecessor company Clear Channel Communications left the television business.

With negative reports about the health of and atmosphere at Univision Communications meriting headlines across the trades and business news, the company is firming up its Puerto Rico asset ownership thanks to changes in the FCC's Duopoly rules. It's forking over a few million dollars to do so.

A low-powered television station using a transmitter from atop a mountain that's home to a popular ski resort in New York's Catskill Mountains is about to get a big bump of northern exposure. This station, an affiliate of ThisTV and seven other digital multicast networks, is moving its tower to the Capital Region. When all is said in done, the tower will be eight miles by air from Albany.

Come Sept. 3, one of your local broadcast TV channel's digital multicast offerings may be getting a fresh new "Start." What can viewers expect? The network plans on putting the spotlight on "strong and resourceful female leading characters in a lineup of contemporary and proven procedural dramas."

“Comcast does not intend to pursue further the acquisition of the Twenty-First Century Fox assets and, instead, will focus on our recommended offer for Sky,” the company said Thursday morning, confirming that it very much wants the London-based global news network.

The Next Gen TV local simulcasting rules have received the approval of the Office of Management and Budget. This means that permissive voluntary use of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard is a go — another milestone for TV operators seeking an addressable advertising solution and superior audio and visual quality.

To the applause of the NAB, a bipartisan pair of Senators have introduced legislation they say would ensure more people receive relevant emergency alerts across their communications devices — including radios, televisions, smartphones and even OTT platforms including Netflix and Spotify.

A U.S. District Judge in California on Tuesday was asked to rule on a motion to dismiss a discrimination suit brought against Charter Communications by the owner of a low-power TV station that airs Azteca América programming on one of its digital multicast signals. Can this LPTV owner, known as "The Jewish Cowboy," successfully persuade the court to move forward with its battle against one of the nation's largest cable TV providers?

What's the state of TV Media Sales? AdMall's 8th annual white paper on the subject is out, and it finds that the state of the industry is good year over year. But, there's a lot of room for improvement. How so? Some 44% of managers failed to meet their sales goal in 2017.

Some may want a wall. Others may prefer a clear path to "El Norte." Count Entravision Communications among those that prefer the latter — at least when it comes to bringing Mexican brands and companies closer to U.S. Hispanic consumers.

Broadcast journalists aren't exactly neophytes and hardly Luddites when it comes to their embrace of technology. They're catching up with their viewers' and listeners' news consumption habits by innovating in strategic ways on a multitude of platforms. But, how they're connecting to consumers is changing. Two big digital media players are decreasing in importance. This is the key finding of newly conducted research conducted by the RTDNA and Hofstra University. 

A first-ever tentative agreement with Telemundo Television Studios covering Spanish-language television performers has been reached by SAG-AFTRA. The contract, which is on its way to finalization, marks a breakthrough after 15 months of negotiations that followed a vote by Telemundo performers to unionize on March 8, 2017.

In a fiery dissent that was retweeted by more than one social media follower, Democratic FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel offered her regret that the agency "seeks to gut the effort to promote educational programming for kids under the Children’s Television Act." Rosenworcel was the lone Commissioner to vote against a "KidVid" reform NPRM.