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On April 14, 2021, the Media Bureau, Video Division (Bureau) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in response to a petition for rulemaking filed by Gray Television Licensee, LLC (Petitioner), requesting the allotment of channel 9 to Freeport, Illinois in the DTV Table of Allotments as the community's first local service. For the reasons set forth in the Report and Order referenced below, the Bureau amends FCC regulations to allot channel 9 at Freeport. The newly allotted channel will be authorized pursuant to the Commission's competitive bidding rules.

The Federal Communications Commission published a document in the Federal Register of June 16, 2021, concerning a petition for rulemaking filed by KHQA Licensee, LLC, licensee of KHQA-TV, channel 7, Hannibal, Missouri, requesting the substitution of UHF channel 22 for VHF channel 7 in the DTV Table of Allotments. The document contained the incorrect call sign of the licensee. The document also contained an incomplete email address of the contact person.

The Commission has before it a petition for rulemaking filed by Corridor Television, L.L.P. (Petitioner), the licensee of KCWX (MyNetwork), channel 5, Fredericksburg, Texas. The Petitioner requests the substitution of channel 8 for channel 5 at Fredericksburg in the DTV Table of Allotments.

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Creates the Communications Equity and Diversity Council as New Name of Advisory Committee Under Renewed Two-Year Charter

Go northwest of Chicago’s Loop, and you’ll find such communities as Des Plaines, Norridge and Rosemont. Here, a 300-watt Class A FM using a tower in Schiller Park has offered listener-supported “Radio for the Jesus People” to the area.

That’s about to change, thanks to the sale of this tiny noncomm.

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For the past 11 years, he’s run a New York advisory firm consulting such entities as Premiere Networks, Viacom, Westwood One, and GeoBroadcast Solutions.

Now, Gary Krantz is joining an investment bank focused on the media, marketing, information and technology industries.

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Add Best Buy to the list of big consumer brands that have committed to spending billions of dollars over the next four years with “BIPOC” and minority-owned “diverse” businesses.

This pledge, the electronics retailer notes, “includes plans to increase all forms of spending” from nearly every corner of Best Buy — including marketing and how it advertises.

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LOS ANGELES — The free streaming platform owned by Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is bulking up its lineup with the addition of a host of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels.

The move is designed to increase awareness, and usage, of Local Now.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — It took exactly 60 minutes for the biggest lobbying voice for commercially licensed broadcast media to issue a statement that predictably pans the introduction in the U.S. House of Representatives of the “American Music Fairness Act.”

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He’s been “an integral part” of the Fox Television stations team for 14 years and was “a natural fit” for this position, says Fox TV Stations CEO Jack Abernethy.

Meet the new SVP of Digital Operations for the Fox owned-and-operated over-the-air stations.

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Until his surprising defeat in the 2018 Democratic Primary Election to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Joe Crowley spent 20 years in Congress representing a working class section of Queens, New York. Today, he’s in the National Capital Region, settling into his first month as Chairman of musicFIRST — a lobbying group described by The Recording Academy as “a coalition that fights for fairness and equity for music creators.”

To say Crowley hit the ground running is perhaps an understatement. Just days after his appointment, he was Tweeting about how “it’s past time to pay artists for their work.” Now comes the introduction of the American Music Fairness Act — crafted in part with Crowley’s input.

In an exclusive interview, Crowley shares why this bill’s introduction is important, and how it differs from multiple failed attempts in recent years to get Congress to pass a radio royalty proposal.

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If at first you don’t succeed … then dust yourself off and try again.”

Those are the lyrics to Aaliyah’s early 2000 chart-topper “Try Again,” the first single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 based solely on airplay. Without radio, would it have been a hit? Would Aaliyah’s place in the annals of rock ‘n’ hip-hop history be sealed?

The argument that Radio cements the success of recording artists continues to be debated, as does the belief by recording industry advocates that the artist isn’t getting its fair share of the royalties they deserve from the airplay of their songs. Numerous attempts at giving singers and musicians more money from Radio have come and gone in the last five years.

The latest effort, which takes a novel scaled royalty payment approach, has just been introduced in Congress. It’s a bipartisan bill from two Members who’ve tried before, and now seek support of what they’re calling the “American Music Fairness Act.”

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Jason Church

From our “Who’s Buying What” page: WSIE 88.7 “The Sound” recently put in a bunch of Heil Sound microphones as part of a studio upgrade project. The mics were donated by the manufacturer.

The station at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville installed 14 PR30s as well as PL2T booms and PRSM shockmounts. The mics are being used in its main studio, production and voice tracking rooms.

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Jason Church is director of operations and general manager at The Sound. Heil quoted him as saying that at WSIE, students are taught skills that apply to traditional radio, streaming, podcasting, YouTube and other media. “They come here and work on real equipment and learn to present themselves on the air in a professional manner.”

The school and the manufacturer are both located near St. Louis. Their partnership was arranged by Michelle Levitt, marketing director for Heil Sound, who was contacted by a representative at the school about underwriting partners.

Users and suppliers are both welcome to submit news for “Who’s Buying What.” Email radioworld@futurenet.com.

 

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Penthera offers a suite of streaming products to OTT providers designed to improve the video experience for their users. Its technology assists in the reduction or elimination of buffering and video quality issues, ensuring that stream abandonment doesn’t happen.

The company has just released a study that looks at the habits and preferences of U.S. Hispanics toward streaming video. Given their role as first-adopters of technology, we believe the findings are important for all in the TV industry to understand.

What’s the biggest takeaway Penthera can share? Its Chief Marketing Officer, Jodi Susman, offers details in this InFOCUS Podcast presented by dot.FM.

 

Listen to “The InFOCUS Podcast: Jodi Susman, Penthera” on Spreaker.

Advanced advertising company OpenAP has formed a new strategic alliance with AT&T’s ad technology platform that will enable OpenAP’s OpenIDSM audiences inside Invest TV, Xandr’s buyer self-service platform for linear television.

Buyers using Invest TV will now be able to activate unified audiences across all of the U.S.’s largest premium TV publishers and utilize those audiences in their Invest TV buying workflows.

Xandr will adopt the OpenID, a unique identifier launched by OpenAP that enables centralized activation of advanced audiences for use in campaign targeting, and OpenAP will accept demand from Xandr’s Invest TV buying platform. Invest TV will use OpenAP’s Audience Activation API, RFP and Proposal APIs, as well as its Campaign Post API, supporting interactions between Invest TV clients and publishers accepting demand through OpenAP’s platform.

The collaboration signals a commitment from both organizations to grow the market for audience-based advertising across the entire national video footprint.

With this integration, OpenAP and Xandr will enable a buyer to activate an audience target centrally with OpenIDs and use that OpenID audience within Invest TV to define deals, distribute and collect RFPs across publishers, review and request changes to proposals and analyze post-campaign reporting.

Advertisers will benefit from a consistent ID-based audience used for transacting on a national footprint of premium television advertising inventory, enabling deduplicated reach estimates and reporting.