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TORONTO — “Media revenue in the fourth quarter was softer than expected, affecting our revenue target for the year.” That’s the glum news from the President/CEO of one of North America’s biggest communications and entertainment companies, as it announced when analysts and investors can expect to receive the company’s year-end and fourth quarter 2024 earnings report. […]

Cross-channel television and connected television advertising operation Simulmedia has brought in a new Chief Scientist, and it is a person known for his experience in media research, audience measurement and understanding data.

A radio station ownership group co-created by Chad Graves and Scot MacDonald is officially bigger, as it has closed on the purchase of a collection of AMs, FMs and FM translators it agreed to purchase in October 2024. The transaction sees Kalil & Co. serve as the broker.

The main source for PBS and NPR programming across The Peach State is starting 2025 with a new visual identity, an updated sonic logo and several other branding updates that can be seen or heard across 20 radio stations and nine television stations.

It was released on the final day of 2024, and adopted on December 30 — just in the nick of time to make the FCC's 2024 Communications Marketplace Report timely. And, it may take a lot of time to pour through it all. No less than 11 individual PDFs were distributed, including a principal document of more than 500 pages.

An NBC affiliate that was launched by Pulitzer as a sibling to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that has been associated with TEGNA since its days as Gannett and Combined Communications Corp., which purchased the station in 1979, is preparing to leave downtown St. Louis and sell its home of 40 years.

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Audacy/New York sales associate Billy DiMaio had traveled to New Orleans to celebrate New Year’s Eve and attend the Sugar Bowl with friends. He lost his life during the early morning hours of January 1 in New Orleans in a vehicular terror attack on the tourist and entertainment center of Bourbon Street.

A heritage television brand that's been somewhat lost in the sea of Korean, Chinese and Japanese brands for a generation is poised to make a comeback of sorts next week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. And, it is all being fueled by ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast technology.

NEXTGEN TV broadcasts are coming soon to a second Caribbean nation, joining Jamaica in transitioning its signals to the ATSC 3.0 standard. And, a demonstration station is now on the air for those in a nation entering 2025 under a state of emergency due to heightened crime and violence.