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As we conclude the tenth month of 2026 next week, we review some of the comments from key financial analysts regarding the challenges broadcast media’s sales leaders have faced this year. Their commentary meshes well with Omnicom Media Intelligence that offered intelligent insights on the matter.

Some 73% of respondents in a newly released Pew-Knight Initiative study said press freedom is extremely or very important to the well-being of society. However, when asked to prioritize press freedom or accuracy, 53% said preventing inaccurate reporting is more important — even if it limits press freedom.

Holders of top-ranking Urban One bonds have said yes to a buyback of lower-ranking debt, funding new investments — or further borrowing — so long as it makes fiscal sense. It's a move disclosed in a SEC filing following the sale of real estate in Charlotte by the company run by Alfred Liggins III.

She urges NAB to alert radio and TV stations to potential federal investigations

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He's a two-time Fordham University alum who began his career in radio as an undergraduate at WFUV, New York's gold-focused Adult Alternative offering. Now, after stints at Clear Channel and successor operator iHeartMedia, Randy Michaels' Merlin Media, Amazon and SiriusXM, he's formally taken on the GM role.

Gray Media Chief Operating Officer Sandy Breland will serve as Television Co-Chair of Forecast 2027, which has an agenda that keeps growing by the week. Now in its 24th year, the annual broadcast and finance leadership summit will be presented on November 12 at the Harvard Club of New York.

“This Administration is running a coordinated, government-wide effort to reshape the media into its sanctioned messenger, and the Federal Communications Commission has become one of its most active instruments." That's the viewpoint expressed by Anna Gómez in a letter sent to NAB head Curtis LeGeyt. Why him?

Shreyan Daulat and BeatNews co-founder Renil Gupta have what they believe is a solution to the often-demanding task of monitoring key sources for news worthy of covering. Two major-market TV stations are already live with the product. Once Daulat and Gupta graduate college, their goal is for an industry embrace of their creation.

The 2026 NBA Western Conference Champions, led by Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle, have just scored a new broadcast television partnership that will bring the team's basketball games to the Sinclair Inc.-owned home of The CW Network in the Alamo City for the remainder of the 2026-2027 season.

It’s the one asset "Big Tech" can’t buy: Being known, trusted, and needed by the people next door. It has carried independent and small-market broadcasters through every wave of disruption, and today it is paired with smart digital integration. At Forecast 2027, Main Street gets its own session. The larger groups would be wise to take notes.