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Shreyan Daulat and BeatNews co-founder Renil Gupta have what they believe is a solution to the often-demanding task of monitoring key sources for news worthy of covering. Two major-market TV stations are already live with the product. Once Daulat and Gupta graduate college, their goal is for an industry embrace of their creation.

Adam Symson, CEO of The E.W. Scripps Co. since 2017 and its former Chief Digital Officer, is convinced that he's scripted the best playbook for the company in a time when consumers may be getting their news first from TikTok or a social media alert on their smartphones. Now, he's being candid about "the cost of this transformation."

A Petition for Rulemaking from key low-power television station groups would authorize permissive use of the 3GPP 5G Broadcast transmission standard for LPTV stations under Part 74 of the Commission's rules. The NAB and Sinclair Inc. have each told the Commission to deny the proposal.

Netflix on Tuesday reported its third quarter earnings, and as one key Wall Street financial analyst sees it, its fiscal bill of health is fine and in line with expectations. However, Pivotal Research Group and CEO Jeffrey Wlodarczak make it very clear that their concerns around the "Big Tech" Goliath remain unchanged.

Just hours after SiliconDust urged multiple broadcast television station owners to disable Digital Rights Management encryption one week before a November 17 Emergency Alert System test, the NAB has told the FCC via an ex parte brief that the Glendale, Ariz.-based technology company's concerns are inflated.

A company devoted to automated video production products for publishers and newsrooms is welcoming a local TV news veteran with experience at TEGNA, CBS News & Stations, Meredith Local Media and Media General to their leadership ranks.

In a significant move that could impact media buying decisions in several large markets, the George Ivie-led Media Ratings Council has revoked accreditation for four Nielsen Audio PPM markets while denying accreditation for an additional 18 PPM markets. 

Why should the Commission say no to the parties behind a Petition for Stay Pending Judicial Review? They "largely parrot the baseless arguments raised by the state cable associations' petition," says Nexstar Media Group's counsel on the matter, Kathleen Kirby of Wiley Law.

A station associated with News-Press & Gazette's Gulf-California Broadcast Company for decades is assessing the damage caused by a fire that prompted "News Channel 3" to abandon its early-morning newscast on Thursday just minutes before going live on the air. 

Effective January 1, the NAB will bring its Government Relations and Legal teams together. This is the result of the coming departure of its 14-year Chief Legal Officer. His role will be absorbed by a Chief Advocacy Officer, someone Curtis LeGeyt calls "a trusted leader and a skilled strategist who knows how to turn broadcasters’ priorities into results."

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay to the National Republican Congressional Committee and the FCC of a Fourth Circuit order that would have forced the Carr Commission to release a formal ruling on a controversial public notice Democrats assert added political action committees to the "lowest unit rate" qualifier list.

It will likely be years, not months, before TEGNA's assets can be fully integrated into parent Nexstar Media Group's holdings as litigation seeking an unwind of a merger DirecTV and a coalition of state Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta contest continues. This explains the swift addition of "top sales roles" under Patrick Paolini.

It's an agreement finalized one month ago, and it sees the sale of three TV signals in Ohio to an organization widely known as the home for NPR shows, classical music, and "Folk Alley." Paperwork detailing the merger of Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio with Ideastream has just arrived at the FCC. 

The NAB has responded to efforts coordinated by a group of broadband associations designed to stop the FCC from moving forward with its decision to delete a Congressionally mandated 39% national TV ownership reach limit by largely supporting the agency's desire to move forward — and not wait for pending judicial review.

A federal magistrate judge has denied a motion designed to force Nexstar and TEGNA to respond to a question as part of the discovery process in its antitrust case filed by a group of state AGs and DirecTV.  The decision is a win for the nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations — at least for this round.