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On the morning of June 10, the House Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing that seeks to examine the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 and its effect on the modern broadcast market for major sports leagues. By special request , the Commissioner of the NFL has been asked to offer testimony at the session.

As the 7pm hour began across the East Coast of the U.S. on Sunday, every TV station owned by The E.W. Scripps Co. was effectively obstructed under federal law from those who receive local broadcast television stations via DirecTV. The reason? A new carriage deal could not be reached, and each party blames each other.

The FCC on Thursday made it clear that it wants broadcasters "to review and modify their operations to ensure compliance." The reminder comes in a politically charged environment, one in which The Walt Disney Co. is being subject to an early license renewal of its ABC Owned Stations and questions over "The View" as a bona fide news program.

The FCC under Brendan Carr has generated many conversations about "ridding broadcasters ills by letting everybody buy each other." That's an observation veteran D.C. communications attorney Frank Montero offered as he opened the second day of the 2026 Hispanic Radio Conference with a lively panel discussion.

The war of words between the Carr Commission and The Walt Disney Co. over the FCC's strict scrutiny of the ABC Television Network — and ABC Owned Stations, giving the Commission the authority to speak — escalated on Thursday as the company now led by CEO Josh D'Amaro submitted eight license renewal applications "under protest." 

How can U.S. Hispanic radio, in particular, pivot its sales pitch? Radio + Television Business Report President/Publisher Deborah Parenti asked this question to a panel of radio leaders representing some of Spanish-language media's key companies during the Executive Super Session at the Hispanic Radio Conference.

For some, the Nielsen National Big Data + Panel Television Service falls short when it comes to the audience measurement insights they seek and demand. For the Media Rating Council, four priority areas of concern noted in early March have been addressed by Nielsen. As such, Big Data + Panel remains accredited.

What do NAB Chief Legal Officer Rick Kaplan, Motion Picture Association Sr. Executive VP and Global General Counsel Karyn Temple, and NCTA-The Internet &...

The Motion Picture Association, which today very much includes "Big Tech" behemoths Amazon and Netflix, has asked the FCC to refrain from "intervening" in the video marketplace "in light of increasing innovation, intermodal competition, and viewer choice."

With a “hold separate” court ruling being appealed in the Ninth Circuit and a D.C. court hearing a separate challenge, TEGNA has named a Chief Executive Officer — a sign that Nexstar’s quest to merge could take years.

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.

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.

The FCC's May Open Meeting produced a unanimous vote on four items, including streamlining the DIRS, but after the meeting adjourned, Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Anna Gomez were far from one accord.  Separate press conferences offered starkly different accounts of where the commission is headed.

For Connoisseur Media, and any other broadcast licensee currently navigating a foreign ownership remediation at the FCC, a Tuesday filing brought some much-needed clarity, but also a few speed bumps — especially as the Jeff Warshaw-led radio group goes full steam ahead on its aggressive M&A plan.

A three-judge federal appeals court panel on Friday expressed doubts that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia erred in its August 2025 decision that a racial discrimination claim lobbed by Standard General head Soohyung Kim against the FCC has no merit.