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Urban One has announced robust early results from its debt restructuring plan. Some 92% of bondholders, representing $450 million in debt, submitted their notes before the December 1 early tender deadline as the company superserving African Americans advances a three-part refinancing strategy.

The ad tech platform's new initiative is built on a mission of "Trust, Transparency and Seamless Ad Execution" for live streamed content, Including sports. ABC and ESPN parent Disney is one of the first certified partners, joining FOX, NBCUniversal and CBS News & Stations parent Paramount.

A newly released study from a Sinclair Inc. subsidiary shares just how the new digital broadcast TV standard will help power the "internet of things," a robust alternative to DBS, and other non-broadcast revenue-revving features the ATSC, Pearl TV and broadcast TV executives have been promoting for months.

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips Professional Displays and complementary products, is preparing for a global conference that's growing in importance to U.S. broadcasting companies — where it will be debuting a robust interactive and immerse experience for visitors.

It isn’t a trial, a teaser, or a limited offer. Aiir is moving ahead with a full release of software "that helped so many hobbyists, community stations, and broadcasters bring their ideas to life" at no cost to its users. 

London-headquartered live production technology firm Vizrt has brought to market a series of AI-driven advances focusing on speed, intelligence, and accuracy in its media asset management (MAM) system, Viz One 8.1.

It's a Class D daytime-only AM radio station that must power down after dark to protect distant Class A KOA-AM in Denver, and in recent times has been home to the Spanish-language Adult Regional Mexican Hits "Juan" format. Now, it is being donated to Hudson Valley radio station operator Bud Williamson.

Need for physical buttons and voice assistant woes were WorldDAB Summit themes

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S&P Global Market Intelligence's Kagan arm surveyed U.S. adults on their social media habits. The results show that Generation Z users spend nearly double the amount of time on social media as millennials — and three times that of Gen Xers and baby boomers/seniors.