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Some 219 House Members are now co-sponsors of the important resolution that is a pledge to oppose “any new performance fee, tax, royalty or other charge” on local broadcast radio stations. How many are in support of the musicFIRST-backed "American Music Fairness Act?" A handful.

Varsity Brands, known for cheerleading, dance teams, and camps and competition, has signed an exclusive broadcast deal for its Varsity Spirit unit with Scripps Sports. The result is live coverage of the inaugural Pro Cheer League season through The E.W. Scripps Co.'s ION sports and entertainment network.

New Year's Eve 2025 is rapidly approaching, and broadcast TV stations that are developing plans for their on-air, online and social coverage of New Year’s Eve now have access to this year’s official Times Square New Year’s Eve content, courtesy of Countdown Entertainment and the Times Square Alliance.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) modifies the Table of TV Allotments (table) rules by removing channel 8 at Fort Bragg and substituting channel 8 at Cloverdale, California, in response to a Petition for Rulemaking (Petition) filed by One Ministries, Inc. (Petitioner or OMI), licensee of KQSL(TV), channel 8, Fort Bragg, California. The Petitioner further requests modification of its license to specify Cloverdale as its community of license. OMI filed comments in support of the Petition, as required by the rules. Another commenter filed comments raising issues outside the scope of this proceeding and therefore the Commission declined to consider them. The staff engineering analysis finds that the proposal is in compliance with the Commission's principal community coverage and technical requirements. The public interest would be served by reallotting channel 8 from Fort Bragg to Cloverdale in the table consistent with the technical parameters set forth in the Petition.

The nation's No. 1 of broadcast radio stations by AM and FM count has promoted from within to fill two Division President of Community Markets slots at the company. At the same time, iHeartMedia is promoting its President of the Portland, Ore., market, to Region President of the Pacific Northwest Area.

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Issued an Erratum correcting an Order, DA 25-1062, released on December 17, 2025

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The National Women's Soccer League's newest franchise has secured an exclusive local broadcast rights agreement with The E.W. Scripps Co., a deal secured by Scripps Sports President Brian Lawlor that will see all non-nationally exclusive matches air on the company's two broadcast TV stations in Denver.

It's "programmatic ad arbitrage dressed up as scale," writes Del Colliano

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The Chairman of the FCC has reiterated his belief that the FCC has an obligation to enforce a public interest standard for broadcasters who have been given the right to use a "very valuable public resource" — spectrum — and will continue to do so under a Congressional statute it is obligated to follow.

It expects the Music City to revitalize its North American convention

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While the NAB and a bevy of licensees seek a relaxation or wholesale repeal of the Commission's local broadcast ownership rules, an advocacy group for African American station owners has asked the Carr Commission to leave its current regulatory limits as-is.

The nation's largest single owner of broadcast TV stations has confirmed that it is bringing to market an in-house strategic and creative hub designed to serve as an express lane to its portfolio of media properties across the United States.

As RBR+TVBR was first to report earlier this week, Gray Media has reached a deal to purchase a full-power television station in the Volunteer State in a transaction that saw brokerage Kalil & Co. represent the seller. It is now known how much Bahakel Media will pocket from the transaction.

With little fanfare and swift approval, the three Commissioners of the FCC gave their thumbs' up to a Report and Order amending its rules to provide regulatory certainty and clarity to low-power TV broadcasters.

Announces procedures, deadlines, inventory, and minimum opening bid amounts for the auction of AWS-3 licenses in the 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780 MHz and 2155-2180 MHz bands (Auction 113)

Across each year, local media analysts actively track the advertising spend and media choices used by SMBs across the U.S. While small local businesses have largely been absent from big-city Radio for years, one Audacy station engaged in a recent effort designed to salute these components of the local economy.