Headlines
NTCA To FCC: Time To Look at Retrans Price Demands of TV Stations
A federal government proposal would give cable and satellite TV operators a couple of days to report when negotiations with local TV stations fail and create pay-TV blackouts.
Embracing Digital: A Radio Roundtable
The ever-present inferiority complex that radio suffers from allows the companies that have digital delivery to play on the perception that they’re dominant. There is a true superiority over radio that the DSPs have regarding quality.
BIA
Retail Media Networks Pull Tighter on Closed Loop Marketing
We are in a Big Media meets Big Retail moment of innovation and maturation in marketing and advertising. This has implications for how the local ad market will evolve, and the speed at which this evolution is likely to occur.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Judge Orders $78K Payment In Minnesota Newspaper Sale Dispute
A two-year legal battle over payment for the purchase of a group of small newspapers in Minnesota ended when a judge ruled in favor of the former owner.
FCC
FCC Rejects Proposal To Create LPFM Network Of Weather Alert Stations In Nine States.
The Weather Alert Radio Network, led by a group of longtime broadcasters, has been told it is not eligible to secure low-power FM licenses in communities located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and the Virgin Islands.
Radio
What Radio Can Learn From Big Brands That Copy Radio Promotions
While getting older kind of sucks, one of the benefits of having been around a long time is perspective. Like watching fashions come into style, go out of style, and then nostalgically return for an encore helps you understand cycles and how they work.
In Request To FCC, Cumulus Seeks Foreign Money And Help Resisting Unwanted Takeover Advances.
Cumulus Media may have adopted a so-called poison pill to ward off any attempt at an unsolicited takeover as a Singapore-based investment firm gobbles up its shares, but the radio group isn’t turning a cold shoulder to its money.
Live365 Deal Makes Stations Available On The Audacy App
Audacy and Live365 are partnering to bring the internet radio network to the Audacy streaming app. This deal will bring hundreds of additional stations spanning numerous genres to Audacy’s platform.
CTV/OTT
A Political Advertising Connected TV Marketplace Is Born
With an expected $1.3 billion in political advertising to be spent on Connected TV in 2024, campaigns have a crucial impetus to “get it right” as linear broadcast TV remains a key media choice. Now, a new Madhive local Connected TV marketplace is designed to further boost OTT campaigns.
Digital
Supreme Court Tackles Social Media 'Censorship'
The Supreme Court wrestled Monday morning with new laws in Florida and Texas that impose sweeping new regulations on tech companies' ability to take down users' posts.