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Ohio's Attorney General late Thursday announced that it had reached a deal with Nexstar Media Group to keep newsrooms at TEGNA stations in two Buckeye State markets intact for the next several years. Then came word that five state AGs joined California's Rob Bonta in its Sacramento-filed federal lawsuit against Nexstar.

Two heritage radio stations serving Blacks across North Texas for decades are being sold to Urban One. This results in the company led by Alfred Liggins III agreeing to sell its FM at 94.5 MHz to a regional broadcast ministry that plans to switch that station to Spanish-language Christian programming.

FCC seeks comment on a proposal to amend the Audible Crawl Rule, which would eliminate the need for successive waivers of the rule and would ensure the continued availability of visual but non-textual emergency information. 

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Global consumer spending on overall media content and technology grew 2.8% to $2.439 trillion in 2025, decelerating from a 4.4% increase in 2024, as there were no major international sporting events and fewer federal elections and related media buying.

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The NAB's 2026 Marconi Radio Award nomination window is now open, and will remain so through the month of May. Award winners will be announced during a special dinner program presented by HD Radio and DTS AutoStage parent Xperi on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

The Commission adopted a NPRM that proposes to exclude entities identified on the "Covered List" from providing domestic interstate telecommunications services, and seeks comment on other potential ways protect the nation's telecommunications networks.

The Wireline Competition Bureau addresses the Petitions filed by several recipients in the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program requesting extensions of their removal, replacement, and disposal terms.

Nexstar is aggressively moving ahead with full confidence that its acquisition of TEGNA is proper, allowing it to integrate the company's assets with its own. With all eyes on Nexstar's May 7 Q1 2026 earnings call, the company's board of directors has moved forward with a healthy quarterly cash dividend for its stockholders.

Connoisseur Media celebrates the efforts of Star 105.5's "Joe & Tina"

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Identifies 17 applicants qualified to bid in Auction 113 (AWS-3)

The Media Bureau modifies on its own motion a Memorandum Opinion and Order issued in connection with the application of SBP, LLC, for renewal of license for station WABG(AM), Greenwood, Mississippi.

A privately held licensee of broadcast radio stations found across the Show-Me State is largely to thank for the end of the FCC's TV "Top-Four Prohibition," as it successfully sued the Commission in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2025. Now, it has written to the Commission to outright eliminate its local radio restrictions.

By this order, WCB reminds providers of incarcerated people's communications services (IPCS) that Annual Reports and Certifications are due on June 1, 2026.