In early May, the parent of the ABC Television Network pled its case to the Commission in a Petition for Declaratory Ruling that "The View" is a bona fide news program. Those who agree, or feel otherwise, are now being invited to submit their comments to the Commission in a highly partisan look at the show.
Fuse Media is celebrating the signing of a new strategic partnership with cross-platform measurement and outcomes specialist iSpot — a pact Fuse says is aimed at validating and proving value across their owned and operated Connected TV and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel environments.
Just shy of the century mark since its first broadcast, CBS News Radio signs off for the final time tonight, closing a service that defined the sound of American broadcast journalism, trained generations of news talent, and reached and informed tens of millions of listeners every week.
Spotify's expansion of its AI-driven Prompted Playlist feature to include podcasts alongside music is the latest exhibit in Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw's push to convince the FCC that digital audio platforms now compete directly with broadcast radio and that local ownership rules should be scrapped entirely as a result.
Congress first took up the question of AI-generated voice and likeness protection in 2023. In the years since, the technology moved far faster than the legislation. Now, the NO FAKES Act is getting a new shot at protecting creatives from unauthorized AI-generated replicas of their voice and likeness.
The biggest names in Hispanic radio will be under one roof in Phoenix next week, and here's the cold, hard truth. Deals get done here. Hires get made here. Lessons get learned directly from the people at the top. If your competitor is at Hispanic Radio Conference 2026 and you're not, you'll feel it, one way or another.
A market-oriented think tank in Portland, Ore., is urging the FCC to treat broadcast ownership rules, retransmission consent, content regulation, and sports distribution policy as a single interlocking problem, cautioning that fixing any one without the others risks making the broader regulatory picture worse.
Most marketers already know brand-building works. The harder question, and the one a new report from WARC and four research partners sets out to answer, is why so few of them are actually doing it. The culprit, according to a survey of more than 200 senior marketers, is eight blockers spanning cultural, procedural, and structural misalignments.
Cox Media Group is facing a nearly $1 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over an AI-powered "Active Listening" advertising service that the agency says falsely claimed to harvest conversations from smart devices to serve targeted ads to consumers.
A prominent conservative media figure and political commentator with close ties to the Trump orbit is on the hook for $41,000 after an FCC investigation found one of his broadcast television stations serving the Susquehanna Valley filed or missed dozens of required public file documents over its license term.
Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club—one of more than 15 iHeartMedia shows brought to Netflix under the pair's exclusive video podcast partnership announced last December—is headed to the platform live, daily, and starting June 1, marking the first live weekday programming offering in the streaming giant's history.
An entertainment attorney with deep Academy roots, a dealmaker behind some of the streaming era's most consequential content transactions, and the chief executive overseeing one of the largest independent production footprints in the Western Hemisphere are bolstering the board of the Television Academy's philanthropic arm.
A change of setting and the company of loved ones can shift your outlook. But, respected public relations professional and "Zoom expert" Rosemary Ravinal did not anticipate that her grandson, Mo, would provide a fresh perspective on storytelling during her visit.
EstrellaTV has a new full-power address in San Antonio. MediaCo Holding launched the Spanish-language network on KYVV (Ch. 10) on May 19, planting a full-power flag in one of the country's largest Hispanic markets and adding to the company's must-carry distribution across top-10 Hispanic DMAs nationwide.
A new industry survey puts a number on the gap: advertisers are deploying agentic AI at a rate 60 percentage points higher than sellers of ad inventory, exposing a structural mismatch that could fundamentally reshape how media inventory gets bought and sold before the sell side is equipped to handle it.
It was an unexpected turn on Capitol Hill, but now the fight to keep AM radio in the automobile dashboard has a new vehicle to a floor vote. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted Thursday to include the AM Act's language in Chairman Brett Guthrie's Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026.
A music industry trade association representing Christian and Gospel labels is asking the FCC to treat FM and AM as two separate regulatory problems in its still-pending 2022 Quadrennial Review, holding the line on local commercial FM ownership caps while eliminating limits on how many AM stations a single entity may own within a given market.
The President/GM of the CBS affiliate in Kentucky's largest market, owned by Hearst Television, is retiring. The role will be filled by the station's ND, who has been associated with the station for some 14 years. As Hearst Television President Michael J. Hayes says, “She knows this community like few other journalists ever have.”
Six Democratic senators are demanding that the FCC explain how it intends to review Paramount Global's request to authorize sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar to hold up to 100% of the equity in its broadcast television stations and whether Chairman Brendan Carr can evaluate it impartially.
A Dallas-based AI startup is making its pitch to fill the void left by years of local radio newsroom closures. Riply launched May 19 with a platform that pulls from a proprietary network of curated local sources and converts what it finds into broadcast-ready scripts, produced audio segments, and content feeds designed to slot into existing workflows.
