Headlines
GOP's war for eyeballs
Republicans are starting to trounce Democrats in political spending across the Senate map, and that advantage is now showing up in one of the metrics campaigns care about most: impressions.
BIA
At Forecast, You’ll Gain The Blueprint For Jumping The Political Cliff
Look ahead in your mind to Wednesday, November 4. The votes are cast, the signs will start to come down (eventually), and the campaigning is over.
Mergers & Acquisitions
A LPTV Property In NW Louisiana Is HC2’s Latest Buy
A Class A broadcast television station serving an area of Northwest Louisiana and portions of the Lone Star State is poised to become the latest property to be licensed to HC2 Broadcasting, a licensee of LPTV properties intent on getting voluntary adoption of 5G Broadcast services to the finish line at the FCC.
Television
Sinclair to expand The National News Desk on local TV stations
Local television broadcaster Sinclair, Inc. is expanding the availability of its national news program “The National News Desk” on a handful of its stations across the country.
Radio
Study Finds Cross-Channel Campaign Lifts Awareness, Intent
A Nielsen study conducted with Katz Digital finds that combining digital audio and connected TV advertising can significantly increase brand recall and shift consumer awareness, sentiment and intent in issue advertising.
CTV/OTT
Paramount required to operate free streaming service under settlement over WBD merger
Executives at Paramount have agreed to maintain a free streaming service as a condition of settling a multi-state antitrust lawsuit over its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), The Desk has learned.
Media
Trump’s NPR-PBS Funding Fight Quietly Comes To An End
The court battle over President Trump’s attempt to cut off federal funding to NPR and PBS has quietly come to an end, leaving intact a ruling that the executive order’s principal funding restrictions violated the First Amendment.
Tech
Content Sells, But Who's Buying?
The deals are real, but so far meaningful only for large publishers. A rare look at the buyer side of the AI content market and why AI companies aren’t buying more news content.
FCC
FCC Blocks 36-Station LPFM Network Push Over Localism Rules
The Federal Communications Commission has blocked an effort to build what could have become a sprawling network of low-power FM stations across the country, dismissing three dozen applications linked to longtime community organizer Wade Rathke and the Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AMFM).
Court Denies Democrats’ Request For Fast-Tracked FCC ‘LUR’ Ruling
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Friday deferred a request from a quartet of Democrats running for elected office in the 2026 mid-term cycle that would have forced the FCC to issue a swift ruling on whether or not the “lowest unit rate” includes Political Action Committees or is limited to the candidates themselves.