Headlines
Station M&A In 2025: Who’s Likeliest To Buy And Sell (subscription required)
The ground is beginning to thaw on M&A activity with the incoming administration. Here’s how insiders expect the dealmaking to unfold — and how quickly it’s likely to happen.
Did FCC Just Signal Big Policy Shift in Regulation of Video Streamers?
Federal regulators just signaled they might be receptive to a major shift in video regulation, including new authorization for TV stations to collect carriage fees directly from online platforms like YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV.
Mergers & Acquisitions
‘Sports-First’ vMVPD Fubo Acquired By Disney
When FOX Corporation, Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN parent The Walt Disney Company teamed up to create the forthcoming Venu Sports, "sports first" vMVPD Fubo went to federal court to try to stop the deal. Now, it appears that won't happen — Fubo is being acquired by Disney. Details and confirmation of the deal arrived Monday.
FCC
FCC Issues Report and Order Requiring Blackout Reporting
Order requires cable and satellite operators to report broadcast-station blackouts from failed retransmission-consent negotiations
2025 Broadcasters Regulatory Calendar – Looking Ahead to Some of the Regulatory Dates and Deadlines for the New Year
2025 has begun – and everyone is speculating as to what the New Year will bring, particularly given the upcoming change in administration in the White House and at the FCC.
The Past Two Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 23, 2024 to January 3, 2025
We took last week off for the holidays and today bring you the regulatory developments of interest to broadcasters from the past two weeks, which we discuss below with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
CTV/OTT
CTV: TV’s Latest Gold Rush
The year-end frenzy of data, deals and digital divination about connected TV (CTV) has painted an outsized vision of how this internet-based delivery system is overhauling the video ecosystem.
Verticals
Ready For More Political Ads? Money Is Already Being Spent On 2025 And 2026 Races
The 119th Congress has just begun, and President-elect Trump has yet to be sworn-in, but the next campaign season is already in motion. As radio managers make their budgets for the coming year or two, early data shows stations in certain markets can plan on seeing some political advertising dollars.
