Aggregator

Renew Group Private Ltd. has fully divested its stake in audio content creation and distribution company Cumulus Media — shedding the shares just ahead of an exit from the Nasdaq Global Market exchange and shift to the OTC Markets.

An ex parte filing from the NAB in response to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative has taken aim at two groups representing the recorded music industry, accusing them for engaging in "copy-paste advocacy" and "rent-seeking" to block deregulation for local radio operators.

It was the first item on a lengthy agenda that also considered17 bills ranging from "fog observations and geographic forecasting" to the Deploying American Blockchains Act. Now, it's very clear that there'll be no blocking the advancement of President Trump's nomination of Olivia Trusty to serve as a FCC Commissioner.

He spent 24 years at Amazon, and is the prime architect (no pun intended) of the digital streaming expansion into on-demand entertainment and live sports, building Prime Video, Amazon Studios, Amazon Music and Amazon's advertising and marketplace divisions. Now, he's taking over Tennis Channel.

Charlie Grisham has become one of the nation's most outspoken advocates for local television consumption and advertising. Now he has a message for skittish local businesses: 'Big Tech' is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising, so they should follow their lead because local TV works. 

This document amends the Table of TV Allotments (table) of the Federal Communications Commission's (Commission) rules by deleting channel 12 at Silver City, New Mexico and reallotting channel 12 from Silver City to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico in response to a Petition for Rulemaking filed by TV-49, Inc., the permittee of an unbuilt full power television station KKAB on channel 12 allotted to Silver City, New Mexico. The staff engineering analysis finds that the proposal is in compliance with the Commission's principal community coverage and technical requirements. TV-49, Inc. also requested modification of its construction permit to specify Truth or Consequences as its community of license.

It's a provider of TV transmitters, ATSC 3.0 products, translator, exciters and gap fillers at all TV bands and power levels and was in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center across the 2025 NAB Show showing of its wares. Now, it is welcoming a Sales Manager who will cover the eastern U.S.

Vizrt, known for its real-time graphics and live production tools, has brought to market a dedicated audio connectivity and monitoring technology product. Introducing Viz Connect Audio, which gives users the ability to manage any and all NDI sources on a network, both visually and aurally.

Avid has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to deliver a cloud-based production framework that helps television production companies address including rising costs, reduced budgets, and increasingly complex workflows.

FCC proposes to codify and streamline Commission Foreign Ownership requirements for broadcast, common carrier, and aeronautical licensees

.

.

.

"If local broadcasters hope to compete, we need your immediate help to level the regulatory playing field"

The post Multicultural Groups Push for Broadcast Ownership Reform appeared first on Radio World.

Tom and Cheryl Hodgins saved it. Now, they're spinning it to a company that seeks to use it to bring Sports Talk programming to listeners in coastal Oregon. An asset purchase agreement with the details has been filed with the Commission for its regulatory approval.

The agency says it supports “robust foreign investment in U.S. broadcasters”

The post FCC Hopes to Refine Its Foreign Ownership Rules appeared first on Radio World.

The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts; MANA – A National Latina Organization; the National Urban League and the Hispanic Federation have teamed up to pen a letter to the FCC urging modernization of its broadcast ownership rules.

The owner of a Boston-area building found to be the home of an unlicensed radio station has received a "Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting" warning them of a potential fine for harboring the unlicensed FM station using 107.5 MHz.

He's been the head of the television advertising advocacy group known colloquially as TVB since January 2010, and has been a key advocate of linear television across the last 15 years in an era where digital advertising growth continues to accelerate. At the end of 2025, Steve Lanzano will officially retire as President/CEO.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has filed a lawsuit against the President of the United States and other Trump Administration officials over electronic communication that sought the termination of a trio of CPB board members.