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Football was the common catalyst for Disney and FOX in August, as coverage of a new college football season along with the National Football League preseason drove the only share increases for companies in this month’s Media Distributor Gauge.

As the NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises arm explains, the new format is "designed to deliver bold and engaging storytelling," and showcases "a dynamic portfolio of content in compact episodes, reflecting Telemundo audiences’ evolving video consumption habits."

It is the OG hyper-local hub of public media, Rima Dael writes

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Capital markets activity by publicly traded media and telecommunications companies in North America "plummeted" both year over year and sequentially in August, with the sector raising $4.70 billion, newly released data from S&P Global Market Intelligence show.

The parent of the main public broadcasting station serving Seattle-Tacoma and the region since 1954 and its sibling serving Yakima and the Tri-Cities of Washington has moved forward with a significant restructuring plan that it says is a direct result of "Congress's complete defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in July."

It technically has an October 31 deadline to raise $25,000 to help it "defend the future of NJ PBS." But, the future of the public broadcasting operation serving the Garden State is now known — there will be no road forward for the unit of The WNET Group.

The CBS affiliate serving the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz market as of today brands itself as a "weather authority." As of Tuesday, that promise to viewers "expanded" with new local reporting and weather coverage supplied by the CBS News & Stations property just to the north in San Francisco.

The company with majority control held by Soros Fund Management has inked a new strategic partnership with an "athlete influencer end-to-end tech platform" enabling brands to use the name, image and likeness of pro sports figures to consumers via fresh marketing and advertising opportunities.

The gloomiest headlines about the medium are not justified

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How a once-controversial broadcast tower became San Francisco’s steel symbol in the fog

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