Headlines
A Look At The Regulatory Road Ahead For 2025 & Beyond - With David Oxenford
Local television is not immune to the existential challenges facing the media industry writ large, and next month’s transition to a new Presidential administration will only add to the intrigue.
Carr Signals Willingness To Scrutinize Paramount-Skydance Deal
The forthcoming Chairman of the FCC under the second Trump Administration has signaled that the Commission will give credence to a public interest law firm that has filed a petition challenging the pending merger of CBS News & Stations parent Paramount Global and Skydance Media.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deal Digest: Ave Maria Expands Into Michigan
Ave Maria Communications has filed a $250,000 deal to buy religious “Victory 1390” WLCM from Jon Yinger’s Christian Broadcasting System.
Television
How Much Gen AI Are We Ready To Let Into The Newsroom Today?
Leaders from Semafor, the Associated Press and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY tackled imminent use cases for gen AI in journalism, weighing pragmatism, efficiency and ethics.
WRAZ Raleigh Adopts Advanced HDR by Technicolor for ATSC 3.0 Transmission
Visual quality, simplified workflow and bandwidth efficiency made the tech attractive to owner Capitol Broadcasting
Radio
Round One May Be Over, But Broadcasters Remain In Fight To Keep AM In Vehicles
The fight to get a federal requirement to keep AM in the dashboard appears all but over as the current session of Congress winds down, but broadcasters aren’t anywhere close to waving the white flag of surrender.
FCC and NAB Discuss Software Solutions for EAS Overhaul
As the year comes to a close, the National Association of Broadcasters is still hard at work to promote its proposal to transition the Emergency Alert System from hardware-based encoder/decoder devices to a software-based model.
FCC
Court Decision May Help Broadcasters Block Station Data Collection
Critics of Federal Communications Commission efforts to collect data about the race, ethnicity and gender of broadcast employees are looking to a recent Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to help make their case.
Sales
The Secret To Raising Rates Without Losing Customers
For local business owners, deciding to increase their prices can be agonizing. Should I raise prices and take the risk of losing customers or should I hold them and settle for less profit?