Headlines
Radio CEOs Make Direct Case For Fast Action On Ownership Limits
As the Federal Communications Commission is expected to take steps forward in its quadrennial media ownership review in the coming months, several broadcast executives have been in Washington in recent days to make the case for reforms to radio’s rulebook.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Paramount-Warner Bros Deal Has States Eyeing More Than Just Antitrust Issues
In a tough and rough election year for incumbents, Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has become a political football in California and across the nation.
Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Deal Puts Tubi On A Screen Fox Owns
The most useful way to read the deal is not as the purchase of another streaming service. It is the purchase of the screen viewers see before they choose what to watch.
CTV/OTT
VAB: Connected TV ownership reaching saturation point in U.S.
Connected television ownership has reached near-universal levels in the United States, while advertisers are increasingly turning to streaming platforms to supplement traditional television campaigns, according to a new report from the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB).
Digital
News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media
News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And you know what happened to newspapers.
Tech
Perry Sook: Big Tech Poses `Very Urgent' Threat to Broadcast Stations
In a new opinion piece published by Fortune, Nexstar founder, chairman and CEO Perry Sook vigorously defended the Nexstar/Tegna deal as “vital to the future of local television and local journalism,” and argued that local broadcast news operations could collapse and disappear, just as newspapers did, if the deal is not allowed to go through.
FCC
State Associations Say Broadcasters Are Unfairly Subsidizing FCC’s New Priorities
State broadcast associations say the regulatory fee system is becoming increasingly detached from today’s communications marketplace. They believe the result is broadcasters have for years been “unfairly charged” more than they should, as stations shoulder costs that should be shared by a much broader group of industries
Verticals
Turning DATA Into Dollars: Key Insights From 2025 NADA DATA
If your hunch is that dealership advertising budgets have been slashed over the past decade, here are the facts: The average dealership advertising spend in 2025 was $586,246, up 7.8% over 2024, with dealerships investing $739 for every new vehicle sold, an increase of 4.8% over the prior year.