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Circle City Broadcasting founder and owner DuJuan McCoy has been named the 2024 Small Business Person of the Year for Indiana by the U.S. Small Business Administration. This accolade celebrates McCoy's contributions to small business and community service. Circle City is the parent company of WISH-TV and WNDY.

America’s Public Television Stations have unveiled a pioneering initiative to support public television's leap into ATSC 3.0. In markets where Sinclair Broadcast Group has implemented NextGen TV but a local public television station hasn't transitioned yet, Sinclair will provide complimentary carriage of a virtual channel from the public station.

As the Federal Communications Commission seeks new ways to reward locally originating content, Sinclair Inc. is using the focus to try and speed the transition to and swift adoption of the ATSC 3.0 broadcasting standard. The broadcast TV station owner commented on the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking rewarding local content.

The British Broadcasting Corporation's expansion into North America continues, as AMC Networks and BBC Studios team up to introduce BBC News as a 24-hour live FAST news channel. Previously available via wide distribution on Cable TV, the Connected TV debut brings programs like BBC News America and BBC Documentaries to a wider audience.

As advertisers struggle with ensuring their placement on connected TV programming aligns with their brand safety guidelines, NBCUniversal has formed a partnership with DoubleVerify to enhance the transparency and brand safety of its CTV content library, particularly in FAST and ad-supported streaming services lacking such visibility.

The weight is off San Francisco's KPYX-TV, formerly known as KBCW, which had been facing a small monetary forfeiture from the FCC's Media Bureau. The CBS News & Stations channel, which is available over-the-air in the Bay Area on Channel 44 and on Cable Channel 12, faced a proposed fine of $3,000 for delayed uploads of its issues/programs lists to the FCC’s online public inspection file.

She may be best known for her role as Tahani on NBC's The Good Place or as the host of TBS' The Misery Index, but in April, Jameela Jamil will be settled in on the 2024 NAB Main Show stage at the LAs Vegas Convention Center. Jamil will deliver a content creation keynote on the essence of authenticity, moderated by celebrity interviewer and therapist Kara Mayer Robinson.

The National Association of Broadcasters is set to honor consulting engineer Winston Caldwell with the 2024 NAB Television Engineering Achievement Award. Established in 1959, the Award recognizes individuals for their significant contributions to advancing the field of broadcast engineering, with nominations coming from their peers.

Fueled by a share of viral moments, the 96th Academy Awards are expected to again deliver a bump in viewership for the linear TV staple. With host Jimmy Kimmel back at the helm for ABC, the 2024 Oscars could potentially outpace the average of 18.8 million from 2023. With that, comes a successful payoff for a sold-out advertising slate, including an Academy first.

The US' biggest broadcast TV owner is fighting back after the Federal Communications Commission proposed a forfeiture of $720,000 over the renewal of consent for the retransmission of its stations in Honolulu, Hawaii. Nexstar Media Inc. has formally requested the fine be lessened or dropped altogether after the FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer alleged a breach of good faith.

The anticipated proportion of Latino voters eligible to participate in the November 2024 elections is set to reach a record 14.7%, continuing a growth trend observed over the last two decades. Now  NBCUniversal Local's Telemundo Station Group, encompassing 31 Telemundo-owned stations, alongside NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, has formed a partnership to get more Hispanic voters to the polls.

Today an Antenna TV and MyNetwork TV affiliate, KGBT has since September 2021 been owned by Nexstar Media Group. In recent weeks, the station's tower has caused concerns due to structural issues. Now, the tower has been successfully taken down under expert supervision.

The FCC's March Open Meeting will see the consideration of a Report & Order requiring cable and satellite TV providers to specify the "all-in" price for video programming services in promotional materials and on subscribers' bills "in order to allow consumers to make informed choices."

With political campaigns buying up valuable ad inventory in the U.S., all advertisers can benefit from understanding how audiences stay connected as ad prices rise, especially on news programming, new Nielsen data show.

A newly released analysis by media buying firm Guideline finds that linear TV ad spend decreased significantly in the fourth quarter. In fact, it marked the biggest dip since the company began ad spend tracking in 2017.