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Bustos Media Seeks ‘ZoneCasting’ In Seattle

RBR-TVBR

Bustos Media Holdings, the radio station ownership group led by Amador Bustos, has filed applications to deploy ZoneCasting technology for FM radio stations KZTM and KDDS with the intent of offering localized coverage in the Seattle-Tacoma market.

Pioneering TV Industry Exec Jamie Kellner Loses Cancer Fight

Adam Jacobson

Jamie Kellner?is widely known for being one of the lone TV industry executives to have created two new networks: FOX, and the WB. In 2023, he joined the fight to prevent WTXF-29 in Philadelphia from getting its licensed renewed. Now, Kellner is being mourned as he has died of cancer.

Alex Cadelago [Photo: Al Torres Photography/2017; Cumulus Media]

Cumulus’s Houston Head Gets Expanded Role As RVP

Adam Jacobson

The audio content creation and distribution company led by CEO Mary Berner has promoted from within to take the role of Regional Vice President over Cumulus Media's Houston, Albuquerque and Tucson markets. Getting the bigger role is the VP/Market Manager in Houston.

FCC Considering A New FM Broadcast Station Class

Adam Jacobson

The Media Bureau is now seeking comment on a proposal that would create a new FM station class.?Importantly, this proposed FM station class would supersede a dormant plan that would have established a new “Class C4” category of FM stations in the U.S.?

FCC Grants ‘Top-Four’ Rule Waiver With Gray/Marquee Swap OK

Adam Jacobson

In a move that could possibly lead to a thaw in regulatory policy when it comes to local broadcast television ownership limits, the FCC's Media Bureau, headed by?Holly Saurer,?has given its approval to a swap of stations between Marquee Broadcasting and?Gray Television.

Mission Demands Deposit Refund For Failed WADL Buy

Adam Jacobson

Mission Broadcasting,?the licensee of broadcast TV stations run by?Nexstar Media Group?via shared services agreements, has formally demanded to?Adell Broadcasting?that it release its deposit made as part of its now-scuttled deal to purchase?WADL-38 in Detroit. Adell says not so fast.

Pee Dee Gets First NEXTGEN TV Channels

Adam Jacobson

ATSC 3.0-powered?NEXTGEN TV?broadcasts for four services serving a unique DMA that includes the nation's fastest-growing city has arrived. It is thanks to the conversion of transmissions by a Howard Stirk Holdings-owned station operated via a shared services agreement with?Sinclair Inc.

The InFOCUS Podcast: Inside Scripps’ Newsroom Reinvention

Adam Jacobson

It has been one year since The E.W. Scripps Co. began a “bold new approach" to its local news by making a host of changes. What went right ... and wrong? Scripps' Senior Director of Storytelling and Content Strategy, and the Executive Reporter for “Idaho News 6," shares all in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM.

TEGNA Succession Plan Sets Retirement Date For Lougee

RBR-TVBR

TEGNA head Dave Lougee is retiring, and an August transition is expected. Who's taking on the role of President/CEO that in early 2023 many believed would be going to Deb McDermott? It is an individual with experience at the parent of wedding portal The Knot, and at NBCUniversal.

MAGNA Raises Its Global Ad Growth Forecast

RBR-TVBR

"Stronger-than-expected" spending across the first half of 2024 has led MAGNA to upwardly adjust its 2024 global ad forecast. But, is digital driving the growth ? and at the expense of linear media including broadcast radio and television?

Michael Christenson, CEO of Entravision Communications

Entravision Spins Its Digital Ad Rep Business

Adam Jacobson

Much has changed since June 2021, when Entravision acquired a Singapore-based online ad tech company as part of a revenue diversification plan. Now, with a pending loss of revenue due to Meta's July 1 wind down of its ASP program, Entravision is spinning its digital ad rep business.

Tardy Kid-Vid OPIF Filings Yield A Big Proposed Fine

Adam Jacobson

A self-revelation by a Gray Television?station that's home to "Wyoming News Now" has generated a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture of significant size for the facility's failure to upload its "KidVid" children's programming records to the FCC's online public inspection file in a timely manner.

McClain To Retire From FOX’s Central Fla. Stations

Adam Jacobson

He's been with FOX properties serving the Orlando and Gainesville-Ocala markets since July 2019 and ranks at No. 2 among?RBR+TVBR's Top Local TV Leaders for both 2022 and 2023. Now,?Mike McClain is preparing for his retirement, and his successor has been named.

Davidge Brings A Purple Political TV Venture To Life

Adam Jacobson

Come June 27, Matthew Davidge will debut a novel new over-the-air television brand that seeks to bridge the divide between Republicans and Democrats with "bite-sized videos and informational text" to what his new endeavor calls the "purple majority."

The FCC's October 2023 Open Meeting, ahead of a vote on a "Net Neutrality" NPRM

Foreign Sponsorship ID Requirements ‘Amended’ and ‘Clarified’

Adam Jacobson

The FCC on Monday released a report and order that adopts "a new verification requirement" with respect to its foreign sponsorship identification requirements, while also clarifying its existing requirements as it pertains to broadcast programming offered by such organizations as Sputnik.

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