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In a major policy speech delivered in Sioux Falls, S. Dakota, at a tower climber training center, on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission addressed the need for "cutting red tape and modernizing FCC operations." There's new news on this front.

Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink Magazine is joining forces with the NAB to present the 2025 Radio Wayne Awards at NAB Show New York in October. Now in its 33rd year, the Radio Wayne Awards are the industry’s longest-running and most prestigious honor for those in radio sales.

ATSC, the Broadcast Standards Association, has named a broadcast engineering and standards veteran as its Vice President of Standards Development. He will succeed longtime ATSC Vice President Jerry Whitaker, who is retiring at the end of August.

In September 2024, he joined one of the nation’s leading video systems integration and consulting firms as Director of Business Development and Technology after serving as Chief Technology Officer at Byron Allen's Allen Media Group. Now, he's the owner of HVS.

The legal representatives of the President of the United States, as a private citizen, and the owner of CBS News & Stations have come to an agreement that ends a legal tussle between the company seeking to complete its merger with Skydance Media and the person who is again Commander-in-Chief.

The lone Democratic vote maker on the FCC has lashed out at Paramount Global for settling a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump before his re-election over alleged defamation and "news distortion" conducted by 60 Minutes, calling the legal challenge "meritless."

Students at Glenbrook South High School learn play-by-play announcing in a simulated sports environment

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A NYSE-traded technology platform that brings performance marketing to Connected TV has forged a partnership with a "go-to-market intelligence platform" in a way that is designed to help business-to-business marketers "reach the right business decision-makers through streaming TV ads."

According to a new Horowitz Research report, some 85% of American consumers watch at least some live TV content. And, in a boost to the Connected TV purveyor, some 40% of live viewers say they typically watch live TV on free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) services.

The multi-year agreements extend Mediacom’s carriage of Paramount’s broadcast TV stations under the CBS banner and such cable TV networks as BET, Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon. As part of the renewal, Mediacom can now make the Paramount+ Premium plan available to Mediacom customers.