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Sports viewership is up, and it's rising fastest among younger fans. Hub Entertainment Research's latest wave of “Evolution of Sports – What’s the Score?” has all of the details.

The NBCUniversal Local property known as "NBC 5 Chicago" is preparing for the September 14 debut of a live, half-hour weeknight program devoted to Windy City sports, entertainment, pop culture, and special guests. Toyota has been brought on as the title sponsor of the offering, which will take the 6:30pm Central time slot. 

With the Trump Administration and Canada's PM, Mark Carney, dancing a tariff tango, some may wonder if the resulting effects will include, to some extent, a pullback on advertising commitments across North America. Not at all, a newly released global ad forecast from Madison & Wall shows.

The broadcast standards association is being honored with a 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award by the NATAS for its "pioneering development" of next-generation TV broadcasting standards that establish the industry’s first fully IP-based broadcast standard to reach commercial scale.

The E.W. Scripps Co. has introduced a new Local Media leadership structure, something it calls "the latest step in its companywide transformation to reorient the business around consumers’ changing media habits." The changes result in the elimination of more than two dozen positions at the broadcast TV station ownership group.

Technology should be used to help creators make better content, Gladding tells us

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A television station licensed to Cunningham Broadcasting but operated by Sinclair Inc. via a Joint Sales Agreement will soon become a Sinclair O&O, creating a "triopoly" in the Silver State's second-largest market. At the same time, this station's sibling in Elko, Nev., is also being sold by Cunningham to Sinclair.

MaxxKonnect will be sole source for ASI’s Streaming Radio Tuner

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Called abbe, the tool is a cloud-agnostic orchestration layer

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According to official signal coverage maps, it is an FM translator with a signal covering portions of Dearborn, Mich. In mid-July, based on a FCC Enforcement Bureau's investigation, it was determined that the mini-FM's signal and transmitting power was far greater than its authorized 85 watts could provide.