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On December 11, 2024, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update Parts 1, 73, 74, and 76 of its rules for radio and television broadcast stations. Now, the Comment Date and Reply Comment Date have been established.

Roughly 13 months ago, an ongoing legal battle between the owner of The Weather Channel and McDonald's moved to its next chapter, as legal counsel for Byron Allen confirmed they'd appeal the dismissal of a $100 million racial discrimination lawsuit against the restaurant chain. That appeal has been dismissed.

The RMT416 has 16 tuners with AM/FM/HD/NWR reception and stream encoding

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YouTube took the lead in Nielsen’s February 2025 Media Distributor Gauge, gaining 2% over January to capture 11.6% of time spent watching TV across the month. This marks YouTube’s best share of TV to date, and is the second time the pure-play streamer has topped the Media Distributor Gauge since Nielsen began tracking in November 2023. 

The flagship NBCUniversal Telemundo Station Group broadcast TV station, serving Spanish-speaking audiences across South Florida, has a new VP of News and Content. She rises from Director of Multiplatform Content and Streaming for this station and its NBC O&O sibling.

Available in two digital radio configurations, it is suitable for consumer electronics

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The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation has unveiled this year's winners of the 50th Annual Gracie Awards, celebrating five decades of amplifying women’s voices, stories, and achievements in media. The winners will be honored at the Gracie Awards Gala on May 20 at the Beverly Wilshire, in Beverly Hills, Calif., to be hosted by podcaster Fortune Feimster.

Canadian broadcast transmission technology company Nautel is partnering up with the Steve Newberry-helmed Quu Inc., to help further the latter's efforts to deploy rich visual content for radio. And, the simplification of bringing this technology to fruition will be at the crux of its 2025 NAB Show presentations.

AdsWizz and Nielsen have agreed to the renewal and extension of an agreement that provides data activation and audience targeting capabilities within AdsWizz’s full-stack audio advertising technology offering. The integration allows AdsWizz publishers and advertisers to use Nielsen Marketing Cloud and other third party datasets for audience targeting across verticals. 

State broadcasters associations representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have adopted two resolutions designed to protect local radio from new royalty payments and to ensure broadcast stations remain easily accessible from the in-dash entertainment system of all U.S. vehicles.