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The City of Portland OR has looked at the proposed marriage of Comcast and TWC and does not like what it sees.

On June 12, the Media Bureau mailed the second of its Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) audit letters for 2017 to randomly selected radio stations. Among the recipients are stations owned by such companies as Alpha Media, Salem Media Group, Univision, and CBS Radio.

The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau just issued its report card on the third nationwide test of the EAS system. What's the grade? We've got the details on a largely positive report card on IPAWS.

The NAB has teamed up with an arm of the Missouri School of Journalism in conducting a national research project designed to identify effective COVID-19 vaccine education messaging. The findings, the NAB says, will be used to help develop the creative used across broadcast media to get Americans to obtain the vaccine.

As the holiday season comes to an end and 2022 comes into focus, broadcasters have several dates and deadlines to keep up with in January and early February. David Oxenford, the respected Washington, D.C., communications attorney with Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP, has noted some of the important dates media industry C-Suite professionals should be tracking.

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver upheld

There was a surge in the number of noneducational FM radio stations during the third quarter of 2023, while commercial AM and FM radio stations declined in number during the period. That's the biggest takeaway from the FCC's latest broadcast station total list, for the three-month period ending September 30.

There's an organization change in order at the FCC's Media Bureau. In a move made because the Commissioners believe it will serve the public interest, improve operations and streamline the Media Bureau's organization, a division within the Bureau is no more.

According to a trio of undisclosed sources who spoke with Reuters, the FCC is ready issue a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture in the amount of $13.3 million to Sinclair Broadcast Group for its failure to notify viewers that they were watching paid programming.

Among the things that can now be filed with the Commission via its Consolidated DataBase System (CDBS) are informal objections and petitions to deny. Among...

On July 23, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5709, the Preventing Illegal Use of Radio Through Enforcement Act. Nearly five months later, the upper body of Congress has yet to act. That has led every state broadcasters association in the nation, representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, to plead to the Senate's leaders to pass companion legislation.