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In February 2024, Diamond Sports Group’s bankruptcy restructuring process came with a shiny silver lining for free over-the-air TV: In Milwaukee, play-by-play coverage for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks arrived at an over-the-air station for the first time in 17 years. Now, Morgan Murphy Media is stepping up its coverage of the Bucks in two other Wisconsin markets, bring a full season full of games to viewers.

A noncomm operator focused on positive programming, youth music mentoring, and educational broadcasting has a new Chief Executive Officer. That prompted a July 21 transfer of control request involving the company and its FM radio station in a coastal North Carolina community which has now been negated.

An upcoming SET Expo appearance follows the successful installation of two permanent Dielectric DTV+ antenna systems in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Installed by Foccus Digital for TV Globo, the systems went on air ahead of this summer’s World Cup to support live over-the-air DTV+ broadcasts in Brazil’s two largest cities.

Los Angeles-headquartered entertainment technology company and studio Cineverse's VAUDIO takes an advertiser's existing podcast, radio or streaming-audio commercial, adds the visuals required for television, and can activate the campaign across connected TV  inventory without requiring a traditional video shoot.

East of Lexington, Ky., is a college town that's home to Morehead State University, a Division I school within the Ohio Valley Conference founded in 1887. Like many schools of higher learning, it has an FM that's been using equipment considered by many to be outdated. A major upgrade of the station is now complete, thanks to Nautel.

John Fredericks  first gained notoriety as the Trump for President campaign chairman for Virginia in 2016 and 2020 who by late 2023 claimed to be the third-largest independent News/Talk radio network in America. In late July, he agreed to double up in Music City USA. Now, he's parting ways with an AM radio station in the Peach State.

An Emmy-winning journalist, multimedia reporter and producer who worked at the ABC affiliate in Detroit owned by The E.W. Scripps Co. until three years ago has unsuccessfully appealed a gender discrimination case filed against the company and its CEO, Adam Symson.

"Transform the audio campaign you already have into a streaming-TV experience"

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A Hearst Television veteran has been promoted to Vice President of News, a role in which he'll continue to report to Hearst Television Sr. VP of News and Chief Content Officer Barbara Maushard.