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The Media Rating Council has begun an effort to evaluate existing standards and guidelines and develop supplementary guidance in certain focus areas, as it relates to the rapidly evolving use of artificial intelligence and Machine Learning models in areas that intersect with media measurement processes and products.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted a request by the Commission to dismiss the appeals filed in the combined Free Press v. FCC case designed to thwart Nexstar Media Group's regulatorily approved merger with TEGNA. It's a win for the Commission and for Nexstar.

Four photographers who work for the news-driven unaffiliated television station serving Boston owned by Sunbeam Television have taken the company to court for allegedly failing to properly reimburse them for time spent during a mandatory hotel stay tied to a winter weather plan initiated by the station in late January.

Nexstar Media Group's reply brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals largely reiterates its earlier arguments while offering a plea to do something many have predicted — removing the state Attorneys General that joined DirecTV in fighting against its regulatorily-approved merger with TEGNA.

The 94.5 MHz facility associated with KBAY-FM in San Jose is being sold to one of the nation’s largest Christian contemporary music networks. The call letters and format will be retained by Connoisseur Media.

Six former FCC vote-makers were joined by the current junior Republican Commissioner at the agency on Thursday at the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council's annual symposium. Exceptional activity from the agency led for 18 months by Brendan Carr has much to do with increased interest in the event, MMTC President Bob Branson noted.

If you enjoy listening to Cougars football and men's basketball games and you live in the home of the Huskies, the AM radio station branded as "Seattle Sports" is the place to turn to this autumn. That's thanks to a new multi-year partnership between Washington State University, headquartered in Spokane, and Bonneville International.

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One is a family-owned broadcast media company focused on non-secular programming. The other is the nation's largest single licensee of AM and FM radio stations. These two entities have just agreed to swap a pair of FM translators, located in Denver and in San Diego, respectively.

Disney's broadcast TV unit filed reply comments with the FCC in support of its Petition for Declaratory Ruling classifying daytime roundtable chat show The View as a bona fide news program. In short, ABC warned that the government should not serve as content police, a First Amendment violation.