He's most recently served as President of MAX Returns alongside Jon Lammers, who holds the Vice President role of 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.
Local radio audience and revenue growth. Imagine a new technology to achieve this. It exists and the FCC now allows it. Buyer familiarity and interest has doubled in five years. Buyers’ intent to spend more on radio with this technology has tripled. The technology is called ZoneCasting.
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.
MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems will return to the IBC conference and expo in Amsterdam this September with fresh updates to its VersaBrix (VB) Series — described as a rugged, modular fiber-optic transport platform used by broadcasters and live production professionals.
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.
Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink Magazine has joined forces with the NAB to present the 2025 Radio Wayne Awards at NAB Show New York in October. Now in its 33rd year, the Radio Wayne Awards are now open for your suggestions for 2025 honorees.
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.
