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A new partnership between Weigel Broadcasting and the Major League Baseball team housed on Chicago's South Side will see the simulcast of seven regular-season games between now and the regular season on "The U" — beginning with this weekend's battle for Chicagoland supremacy.

Educational Media Foundation (EMF), the parent organization of omnipresent Christian music-focused noncommercial radio networks K-LOVE and Air1, is welcoming a new Chief of Staff for the Ministry. This position will serve on the non-profit’s Ministry Leadership Team.

In a ruling that could have significant ramifications for the FCC and broadcast television ownership groups, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis has ruled that the FCC "arbitrarily and capriciously retained" the Top-Four Prohibition portion of its television ownership rules and improperly tightened it.

Public broadcaster tries to mitigate damage after last week’s rescission of federal funding

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He'll oversee the cluster's six stations

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The ruling vacates one of the TV ownership rules

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"Ad campaigns that use radio grow market share 4x faster than those that don't." That's one of the ways the United Kingdom's Radiocentre is calling on brands to amplify their advertising by seeing Radio differently.

It's the home of multimedia commentator Rob Carson and a MVPD-distributed cable channel that continues to pluck away viewers from FOX News. Now, the company led by Chris Ruddy has issued what it calls "a strong public challenge to any move that would weaken or eliminate the national television ownership cap."

The NAB is "extremely pleased" that the FCC's top-four prohibition has been struck down by a federal appeals court, but is downbeat about the court's decision to abide by every other rule reinforced by the 2018 Quadrennial Review — released in the waning days of the Biden Administration.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm President Trump’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.