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Advertising performance platform VideoAmp has brought to market new first-party data integrations with NCM and Sirius XM. It is a move that widens the coverage of VideoAmp's VXP planning tool and sends broadcast media yet another message that it has competitors for ad dollars everywhere.

While some argue that Newsmax founder Chris Ruddy had no standing to be a Witness at a February Senate Commerce Committee hearing focused on the national broadcast TV ownership reach cap, the head of the Media Bureau made it clear he has no standing to contest the transaction with the FCC.

New York Festivals Television & Film Awards and Radio Awards will bestow its Lifetime Achievement Award on the man who serves as President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Many remember him from his time as the head of NBC News.

The mic will be showcased at the upcoming NAB Show

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As part of staff reductions, the service will end in May after 99 years

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The  Radio + Television Business Report has independently confirmed that CBS News Radio will be winding down its operations over the next several weeks. The news was shared via an internal memo from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski.

Now that Nexstar Media Group effectively owns TEGNA, which saw its stock conclude its trading at a $20.03 valuation and is being converted to "NXST" shares, the company founded 30 years ago by Perry Sook is moving forward with its intent to offer two rounds of senior secured notes to bondholders.

K.M. Richards explains how he managed to bury a not so beloved COL

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Version 2.0 includes a multitrack editor

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The Media Bureau head granted, with minor conditions, Nexstar Media Group's merger with TEGNA. It all but erases the 39% national ownership cap, setting up a court challenge being waged by eight state Attorneys General and DirecTV. Divestures have been agreed to, but the terms make it clear any sales are unlikely.