Headlines
Who’s Really A Buyer And Who’s A Seller Once Deregulation Comes?
The list of prospective broadcast buyers is longer, and potentially more diverse, than many in the industry are currently speculating about.
BIA
Adwanted USA, BIA Announce Data Partnership.
Adwanted USA and BIA Advisory Services say they’ve formed a new data partnership in which media ad spend from BIA ADVantage is infused into Adwanted USA’s SRDS Local Market Profiles — a combination that will allow marketers, agencies and companies to better understand local markets.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $7.07 Million
The purchase of stations in Nevada, California, Texas and Ohio by Sinclair tops the latest list of TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval, according to BIA Advisory Services.
What Will It Take to Get the Paramount-Skydance Deal Done?
On Monday July 7, representatives for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its Hollywood Local 399 and the conservative public interest group the Center for American Rights met with staff of the Federal Communications Commission to discuss a deal important to both of them: The Skydance-Paramount merger.
FCC
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 7, 2025 to July 11, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
$222,500 Penalty for TV Indecency – Reminder to Secure Access to Broadcast Product
The FCC this week announced a Consent Decree with a TEGNA subsidiary to settle an indecency complaint against a Spokane television station.
Alone at the FCC
In an interview with Status, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez turns up the volume as she warns that the body is being used to intimidate journalists and silence dissent.
Television
TV Station Groups Launch Texas Flood Relief Efforts
Sinclair, Scripps, Gray Media, Graham and other station groups are raising money for people and communities devastated by flooding
Radio
It Takes A Village: How WVLG Built a Beacon for the 50+ Crowd
Travel to about the even center of Florida, and you’ll find The Villages – a retirement community with a larger population than Charleston, SC. And if you ask many of its residents what they’re listening to, they’ll point you to 640 AM WVLG.
Tech
Owning Ad Targeting Is Paying Off For Hearst
Hearst has dramatically improved ad targeting across its publisher network since it launched AURA, an AI-based targeting solution, last June, Mike Nuzzo, VP and head of audience intelligence and insights at Hearst, told AdExchanger.