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A Warning From AWARN: Say No To Silicondust EAS Test Request
AWARN Alliance has written to the FCC in support of the November 17 national EAS test the agency is conducting with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Importantly, AWARN voiced his disapproval of a request from the head of Silicondust to disable ATSC 3.0 protocols…
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NYSBA Chair For 2027: A Key Audacy Leader
The New York Market President and corporate level Chief Business Officer of the audio content creator and distributor whose majority ownership is held by Soros Fund Management has been selected to serve as Chair for the 2027 term of the New York State Broadcasters Association…
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In Nine Days, You Can Take Manhattan … and Be Legendary
Sharing visions. Projecting revenues. Discussing the strategies that will guide and drive the broadcast industry in the coming year. Streamline Publishing's Forecast conference is where the high-level executives are free to share it all ... and exclusively in the room where it…
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Gray Media Elevates Eskridge To Lead WLFI
She first joined the Gray Media-owned CBS affiliate serving Lafayette, Ind., in 2015 as Digital Sales Director and one year later was promoted to Sales Manager. In 2022, she departed the station, only to return at the end of 2025. Now, she's the General Manager of this Indiana…
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Key Finance Leader Takes CFO Role At Disney Entertainment TV
He's been honored as a one of Broadcast's Best Finance Leaders on three occasions by RBR+TVBR and has spent nearly a decade at the company, with duties that include ABC Owned Television Stations. As October came to a close, this Disney Entertainment Television finance pro was…
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NAB, Xperi, NRSC Take HD Radio Power Ceiling To The FCC
Some FM stations say they can’t run their HD Radio signals as strongly as they were built to, and a rule about one power limit is the reason. NAB and Xperi told FCC staff the agency’s reading of that rule changed in 2025, and they want it fixed.
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Hubbard Moving Eight TV Stations Into New HoldCo
Hubbard Broadcasting is tidying up the family tree. An FCC filing lays out a series of mergers that would fold license holders into market operating companies, retire an intermediate radio parent, and put eight TV stations under a new Hubbard Television Group, all without…
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Borrell: Digital To Claim 75% Of Local Ads By 2027’s End
For 13 years, search owned local advertising. Not anymore. Borrell Associates says streaming video is now the biggest category in the market, while broadcast TV is projected to fall by single digits this year, even as a wave of advertisers who never bought a spot go straight to…
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Two Media Tech Leaders’ Paths Converge At RCS Worldwide
A pair of WideOrbit alumni is landing at RCS Worldwide. Tammy Halcomb, most recently of Gemini XIII, will run the company’s product organization, and Merideth Kelly, who started in newsrooms before building a career in software, will lead global client experience under CEO Susan…
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NAB Extends 2027 Crystal Radio Awards Entry Deadline
The Crystal Radio Awards entry deadline has been extended to Friday, November 6, giving NAB radio member stations an extra week to showcase their outstanding community service. 50 finalists and 10 winners will be chosen and then honored in Washington, DC, during the NAB State…
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Low-Power TV Broadcasters Push Back On ATSC 1.0 Sunset
A year ago, the FCC said it wouldn’t set a firm end date for ATSC 1.0. Sinclair is asking it to change course and issue a sunset order, and that has the low-power TV world on alert. The LPTV Broadcasters Association is now telling the FCC to keep its stations out of any…
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NAB Seeks Engineers, Digital Leaders For Tech Awards
The people who keep broadcasting on the air, and the ones pushing its technology into the future, will once again get their chance to shine in fabulous Las Vegas as the National Association of Broadcasters has opened nominations for the 2027 NAB Technology Awards.
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Jennifer Lopez Comes Back to Boise to Lead for Sinclair
The name is familiar to most, but the face is especially familiar to Sinclair Boise, as Jennifer Lopez returns to the station group to serve as Vice President and General Manager of KBOI, KYUU, and KNIN. She makes the move after serving as General Sales Manager of KOMO/KUNS in…
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Public Media Mourns KET Executive Director Shae Hopkins
Shae Hopkins, who rose from a temporary pledge production job to the top post at Kentucky Educational Television, has died. Public television leaders are remembering the 40-year KET veteran, who had planned to retire at the end of this year after nearly 17 years leading the…
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An AI-Fueled Ad Creator Tool Arrives For Broadcasters
Ismael Faro, former VP of Quantum and AI at IBM, has partnered with a visual effects artist and engineer who has worked at Industrial Light & Magic and Apple, and a builder of cloud and high-performance computing infrastructure at HPE and Fujitsu to bring to market an AI-fueled…
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FOX Posts Record FYQ1 As Television Advertising Jumps 60%
FOX’s television business carried the company to a record fiscal first quarter, with the World Cup, a busy political calendar, and Tubi’s growth lifting broadcast advertising. The gains pushed company revenue and EBITDA to first-quarter highs and left the Television segment far…
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Cumulus Tests A More Targeted Future For FM Ads in Boston
Select Beantown listeners could soon hear something different on 104.5 XLO (WXLO). Cumulus Media plans to bring ZoneCasting to the station in the first quarter of 2027. In partnership with Aktira, Cumulus says the approach lets the station serve specific parts of Greater Boston
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FCC Taps Senate Commerce Counsel To Run Space Bureau
The Chief Telecommunications Counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee is headed back to the FCC, this time to run the Space Bureau, where Chairman Brendan Carr says she will play a key role in advancing America’s leadership in connectivity, technology, and national security.
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Judge Lets Boston TV News Blizzard Pay Suit Move Forward
Three Boston TV employees who hauled cameras and live gear ahead of a blizzard get to make their case that the prep was paid work. A federal judge says the clock may start earlier than WHDH-TV believes, and most of the suit survives.
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KOPY Pasted Into New Ownership After Longterm LMA
Thirteen years after first taking over the programming under an LMA, a South Texas broadcaster is lining up to outright own three Alice, TX signals serving the Corpus Christi area with Spanish-language Christian and Tejano music programming.