Radio & Television Business Report

He's been honored as one of Broadcast Media’s Top Tech Leaders rankings by the Radio + Television Business Report in multiple years and has been associated with the nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations since joining in 2017 as Chief Technology Officer. Now, he's preparing to conclude his career in broadcast technology.

As the 8pm Eastern hour began on Monday, a segment of Indianapolis TV viewers lost access to their local ABC Television Network affiliate. The reason? It's all about the escalating disagreement between MVPDs and broadcast TV companies over what amounts to fair compensation in a retransmission consent accord.

It is one of most popular features of the year among readers. Now, it has been enhanced for our upcoming Fall 2026 magazine as an improved reflection of the individuals driving live and local TV across the U.S.. For the 7th consecutive year, RBR+TVBR seeks nominations for its 2026 Top Local TV Leaders list.

Attorneys representing DirecTV have told the U.S. Supreme Court that the nation's highest judicial body should deny the request of Nexstar Media Group to review a Second Circuit ruling that reversed an antitrust win — one that is wholly tied to the thorny issue of retransmission consent negotiations.

A D.C. federal district court judge appointed has declined the request by ABC to hold a hearing no later than August 25 on its motion for a temporary restraining order preventing the FCC from moving forward with its early license renewal review of all eight ABC Owned Stations properties.

Some 10 1/2 months after the plan was floated, the introduction of indefinite broadcasting licenses for Canadian AM and FM radio stations — erasing the need for a renewal application — has come to fruition. The CRTC issued its decision in the matter on Monday.

The FCC's Enforcement Bureau on Friday (8/21) sent its annual EEO audit letters to randomly selected stations, and the audit arrives at a particularly charged moment for broadcast diversity policy — and just days after Disney sued the FCC over its investigation into DEI policies.

Six months after his departure from Entravision Communications, Jeffrey Liberman's senior advisory role for Carlos Moncada's MLC Media has grown into Co-CEO and COO positions across Nueva Network and the Spanish-language broadcaster's affiliated North Atlantic Media.

He holds a MBA from American University's Kogod School of Business and for 23 years held key leadership roles in the Nation's Capital for National Geographic. He was Head of International for Amazon's Wondery until spring 2025, when he opened a CEO advisory consultancy. Meet the new head of Hubbard/D.C.

A Class A FM serving the city that's home to Penn State University has just been sold to the Kentucky-headquartered radio station licensee that has amassed a formidable collection of broadcast properties across the Keystone State.

It reaches tiny McCall, Idaho, as a FM translator linked to Boise State University's Class C3 noncommercial FM also based in this municipality. Until now, the school leased the mini-FM. Now, it seeks to own the facility.

News-Press & Gazette Co. has long been a pioneer of digital television, with its California Central Coast operation among the first stations in the U.S. to embrace the current standard. Now, NPG Media has transitioned its ATSC 3.0 broadcast signal signing to the certificate authority operated by Silicondust.

An employee-led vote has resulted in the discontinuation of representation by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) at KOMO-TV in Seattle-Tacoma. That said, the vote wasn't an unanimous one.

In the coming years, media historians may look back at 2025 as the year Canadian radio and television growth prospects permanently fell behind those of online services. A newly released report from the CRTC offers the clearest illustration yet of just how broadcast media's challenges now stretch to digital encroachment.

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Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink and the Radio + Television Business Report are proud to present their respective Lifetime Leadership Awards to two of broadcasting's most respected executives, honoring careers that together span a century of radio and television leadership.