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The E.W. Scripps Co. has priced an offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of new 9.875% senior secured second-lien notes, which represents a $100 million increase from the previously announced size of the offering.

A temporary moratorium on filing the reports on FCC Form 323 or 323-E is now in place. Why? The Media Bureau, headed by Acting Chief Erin Boone, says, "With the next filing window approaching, we find there is good cause to waive the biennial ownership report filing requirement for a period of 18 months."

The CEO of NBCUniversal parent Comcast has been told the agency is launching a formal inquiry focused on whether NBC affiliation agreements — and Comcast's practice in negotiations and affirming these deals — are in conflict with station owner independence and their stations' public service obligations.

Jeff McGinley discusses how that plays out at SummitMedia

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Bell and Rogers today announced an agreement to distribute each other's specialty channels across platforms. The deal comes as Bell TV has launched Canadian versions of three popular U.S. cable television networks.

A Tallahassee, Fla.-based licensee of low-power broadcast TV stations has moved forward with an acquisition that will give it ownership of a trio of LPTV properties, all of which serve the Southernmost City in the Continental U.S.

The technology company said 12 million vehicles globally now have DTS AutoStage

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Get After It Media (GAIM), the national digital multicast network company that's parent to Retro TV, The Heartland Network, The Action Channel, The Family Channel, and Rev’n, has a new Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering.

It is a group dedicated to protecting journalists and their sources, and in March made it clear that Brendan Carr's decision to investigate "news distortion" claims at the FCC made against CBS News "is a scare tactic, spectacle and show trial." Now, a liberal-leaning foundation has taken its quarrel with Carr up a notch.

Stadium modernization included the Olympia 3 commentary system

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