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The National Association of Broadcasters has unveiled this year's recipients of its Engineering Achievement Awards. The two individuals will be honored at the "We Are Broadcasters Awards Ceremony" held on the Main Stage during the 2026 NAB Show on April 21 in Las Vegas. 

For eleven years, she has overseen an unaffiliated broadcast TV station owned and operated by Hearst Television in the sprawling Tampa-St. Petersburg-Lakeland-Sarasota-Sebring DMA — a station found across the region on nearly every MVPD provider.  Come April 1, she'll be retired, having concluded more than 40 years of service in television across the Sunshine State.

Welcome to the latest retransmission consent negotiation to result in the removal, by law, of broadcast television stations from a MVPD — this time frequent "blackout" artist DirecTV. Sticking to its guns is the Wisconsin TV station ownership group founded with a newspaper in 1890 that remains family-controlled today.

In October 2020, he joined Estrella Media under its previous ownership as Executive VP of Digital and Streaming Media. Now, he's been promoted to the newly created role of Chief Growth & Innovation Officer at the entity that is today the parent of Estrella Media — and two venerable New York radio brands.

Cumulus Media's days as a publicly traded broadcaster are at an end. The company's prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan lays out a reorganization that wipes out current shareholders entirely, sees an entirely new board, and could lead to new executive leaders.

The NCAA's March Madness is nearly here, and promotion of this year's upcoming collegiate basketball tournament dominated the cable TV spots last week. At the same time, activity for a popular TexMex-influenced QSR proved to be the dominant No. 1 in its category, in a week with three new entrants in the Spot Ten Cable report.

The monitoring system now acts more as an autonomous co-pilot

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Company history and author memories

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After Susan Patrick was convicted for tax avoidance, ex-husband Larry will own Legend Communications

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These appointees will advise Television Academy Chair Cris Abrego and the 2026 Television Academy Board of Governors on some of the most important issues and initiatives facing the television industry while helping to shape the organization’s direction.