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A supplier of pro connectivity tools for audio, video, and data has named its new Marketing Director. This is a new position for the Charlotte-based company, Neutrik USA, and celebrates one month in the role.

RBR+TVBR has counted the nominations from industry professionals who have cast their nominations for this year's top broadcast TV station leaders in the U.S. Haven't submitted your ballot yet? Do it now before it is too late.

Both units support analog MPX on BNC, MPX over AES192, and multipoint signal distribution, to deliver a wide range of composite encoder and decoder solutions for different applications, Perth-based Tieline says.

"In the investing world, as in life, it is hard to change a narrative," says analyst Michael Nathanson. "For much of the past four years, the media industry has been rightly defined by declining Pay TV subscribers, falling linear TV consumption, and slowing ad spend." But, something "really unusual" is afoot.

Until recently, the mission of a 5kw facility serving the northern and western portions of the island of Hawai'i and the sparsely populated south-slope communities of Maui had been to "Keep Christ in Focus." The FM has been silent in recent weeks, and is now heading to a new owner. The forthcoming licensee will bring religious programming back to the station.

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Procter & Gamble Co. Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard made headlines at the recent ANA Masters of Marketing Conference by calling on attendees to "lead constructive disruption." Come Thursday, MMTC Access to Opportunity Conference attendees will have the ability to turn disruption into opportunity.

The nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast TV stations on Monday afternoon filed its response to the FCC’s proposed fine linked to the company’s relationship with WPIX-11 in New York. "We will not be issuing any additional statement regarding the filing, which we will let speak for itself," a company spokesperson says.

In the opinion of one Wall Street observer, television broadcasters had "a terrific 2018." This momentum is expected to continue into 2019. Does this present a good opportunity for investors that wish to buy radio or TV company stocks? Yes, and here are the five companies Zacks singles out.

The sell-off of stations licensed to High Plains Radio Network continues. This time, it involves three FMs acquired by the Monte Spearman-led broadcasting company in April 2016. Who is the buyer, and is he making a profit some four years later?

A new media partnership aimed at elevating local news coverage in the Metro Detroit region has been forged between the television station known as "LOCAL 4" and the leading African American news organization in the Mitten State.

Nielsen has had a bruising 2021. Now, it believes a new brand campaign, including a "new identity" will help in sharing the story of the company's "transformation of its culture" and "a redefined strategy focused solely on the global future of media."

It's a good week to be a member of iHeartMedia's team of corporate counsel. On Thursday, the Delaware state Supreme Court declined to bring back a derivative claim from a disgruntled investor who argued that the directors of iHeart subsidiary Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings breached their duty by failing to request a repayment of $1 billion from iHeart. This affirms a November 2016 ruling against GAMCO.

Attention, radio industry leaders: Apple is moving one step closer to making the next generation of iPhones completely cordless. Consider it the official death knell for activated FM chips in headsets.

Over half of U.S. consumers have expressed an interest in receiving features of a "NextGen Broadcast Emergency Information service." That's among the key findings from new research unveiled this week by the NextGen Video Information Systems Alliance (NVISA), sponsored by Sinclair Broadcast Group subsidiary ONE Media 3.0.