Radio+Television Business Report

It bills itself as "the world’s first fully interactive TV music channel," and it is powered by FastStream Interactive and ATSC 3.0 head cheerleader Sinclair. Thanks to a newly signed strategic partnership, ROXi’s music channel is being brought to 31 DMAs — with additional US markets launching later this year.

He's most recently served as President of MAX Returns alongside Jon Lammers, who holds the Vice President role of the MVPD-focused broadcast television station consultancy. But, from 1997 through 2008, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Nexstar Broadcasting. Now, the industry is pausing to mourn the death of Duane Lammers.

According to MoffettNathanson Senior Analyst Robert Fishman, the Upfronts "still represent a good barometer of the future of the industry, measuring advertiser sentiment and signaling where budgets are flowing in the year ahead."

The licensee of a Class A digital television station serving Korean-language audiences in the Atlanta market has signed a Consent Decree with the head of the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division, ending an investigation into children's programming rule violations.

S&P Global Market Intelligence has released data from Kagan's US MediaCensus online consumer survey that offers an in-depth look at the vMVPD subscriber in 2025. The big eye-opener? Elder Americans are driving the success of Sling TV.

The E.W. Scripps Co. has priced an offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of new 9.875% senior secured second-lien notes, which represents a $100 million increase from the previously announced size of the offering.

A temporary moratorium on filing the reports on FCC Form 323 or 323-E is now in place. Why? The Media Bureau, headed by Acting Chief Erin Boone, says, "With the next filing window approaching, we find there is good cause to waive the biennial ownership report filing requirement for a period of 18 months."

The CEO of NBCUniversal parent Comcast has been told the agency is launching a formal inquiry focused on whether NBC affiliation agreements — and Comcast's practice in negotiations and affirming these deals — are in conflict with station owner independence and their stations' public service obligations.

Bell and Rogers today announced an agreement to distribute each other's specialty channels across platforms. The deal comes as Bell TV has launched Canadian versions of three popular U.S. cable television networks.

A Tallahassee, Fla.-based licensee of low-power broadcast TV stations has moved forward with an acquisition that will give it ownership of a trio of LPTV properties, all of which serve the Southernmost City in the Continental U.S.

Get After It Media (GAIM), the national digital multicast network company that's parent to Retro TV, The Heartland Network, The Action Channel, The Family Channel, and Rev’n, has a new Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering.

It is a group dedicated to protecting journalists and their sources, and in March made it clear that Brendan Carr's decision to investigate "news distortion" claims at the FCC made against CBS News "is a scare tactic, spectacle and show trial." Now, a liberal-leaning foundation has taken its quarrel with Carr up a notch.

"We made significant progress in the quarter toward our strategic growth initiatives," says CEO Jon Kirchner. "However, as the quarter progressed, the changing macroeconomic environment created increased uncertainty for our customers, ultimately impacting our financial results for the quarter."

The Vice President and General Sales Manager of "FOX 6" in Milwaukee has added similar responsibilities for the FOX Television Stations duo serving nearby Chicago, overseeing all day-to-day sales efforts across three properties.

Spotify Technology S.A. shares tumbled by more than 10% on Tuesday morning, following the release of the streaming audio Goliath's Q2 2025 results — a performance that fell short of analysts expectations and those of its shareholders.

A mobile unit dispatched from Mobile TV Group headquarters in Englewood, Colo., is offering live production to a Major League Baseball team, a National Basketball Association franchise and a storied National Hockey League club's telecast home, a regional sports network formed as a result of the Diamond Sports Group bankruptcy.

Audio-visual tech company Kramer has brought to market it new MTX3-88-PR-PRO all-in-one matrix, a product that is designed to high-performance video processing and scaler-based clean switching capabilities to its users.

Window to the World Communications has signed off on a consent decree with the Chief of the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division that concludes the Commission's investigation into violations of its online public inspection file rules.

The ABC affiliate serving Southern Nevada has named a new leader of its sales team. He'll be taking the position of Director of Sales at The E.W. Scripps Co.-owned KTNV-13 and its unaffiliated sibling on August 4.

Pearl TV counsel Max Larson and Gerard Waldron at Covington & Burling have provided the FCC with more details on just how HDHomeRun depends on a chipset manufactured by HiSilicon, a wholly-owned Huawei Technologies subsidiary.