Headlines
NAB Petitions FCC for ATSC 1.0 Sunset in 2028 and 2030
In an important regulatory push to advance NextGen TV/ATSC 3.0, the NAB has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to establish dates for shutting down the current ATSC 1.0 broadcast standard and switching signals to NextGen TV/ATSC 3.0 broadcasts.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $675,000
The purchase of WYSJ-CD Yorktown, Va., by TV-49 Inc. tops the latest list of TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval, according to BIA Advisory Services.
Radio
Nielsen’s First Three-Minute Qualifier PPMs Bring New Stations To Markets’ Top Five.
If there’s any clear trend from Days 1 and 2 of Nielsen’s January 2025 PPM survey, covering Jan. 9-Feb. 5 — its first where three minutes vs. five of listening are needed to get credit for a full quarter-hour — it’s that the change has pushed several new stations into the top five and knocked out stations that have been top-five mainstays.
CTV/OTT
FAST Channels Making TV Stations Happy - But Not So Fast
Reinventing the over-the-air broadcast model finds executives focusing on one similar, but different, streaming segment: FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV).
Media
White House Says It Will Now Determine Who Will Participate In Press Pool
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the White House would now determine which outlets will be members of the press pool, the smaller group of journalists who are allowed in to events such as Oval Office appearances and Mar-a-Lago events.
LeGeyt: Broadcasters Have “a New Opportunity to Tell Our Stories”
There is hot change these days in Washington. As broadcasters watch all the political and policy developments, nobody is doing so more closely than Curtis LeGeyt.