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The station that serves as TEGNA's NBC affiliate serving Northeast Ohio has appointed a News Director who will assume the role on August 4. She'll be responsible for overseeing the station's news content across all platforms, including streaming, broadcast, and digital.

It is an ABC affiliate that has historically played an outsized role in U.S. presidential politics, as it has brought the New Hampshire primary debates between candidates to voters across the nation for generations. Now, this Hearst Television property has a new News Director.

State Broadcasters Associations representing television station owners across all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico have united to pass a resolution that seeks the FCC to adopt "a clear, industry-wide date-certain transition plan for the full deployment" of the digital broadcast standard that powers NEXTGEN TV.

The E.W. Scripps Co. says it is "enhancing its consumer insights strategy" with the appointment of a media industry executive to the role of post of VP of Head of Enterprise Research and Consumer Insights. Its a woman who frequently lectures on the power of storytelling with data at several universities.

The quarterly survey found 64% listen to ad-supported AM/FM daily

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Required of radio stations every other year, NAB said it provides little public value

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The July 7 announcement that Gray Media and The E.W. Scripps Co. have entered into agreements to swap television stations across five mid-sized and small markets, resulting in the creation of new duopolies for each group, has led the FCC to establish a pleading cycle for the purpose of seeking public comment on the proposed change in control.

The SAG-AFTRA labor union that represents more than 160,000 professionals in the media and entertainment industries has renewed its agreement with Nielsen, again selecting the firm as its third-party provider of streaming content measurement.

He would become an honorary Cincinnati "Commissioner of Fun," years after his father sold WEBN to the Randy Michaels-led Jacor. Now, many across Southern Ohio are pausing to pay respects to Frank "Bo" Wood, who went from hosting "The Jelly Pudding Show" to becoming a nationally respected Rock and Roll Radio renegade. 

This year's event is held in Washington state and brings noncom and LPFM stations together

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