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How will Netflix convince federal regulatory agencies to get their respective approvals of the $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. and its HBO assets? Are their red flags potentially thwarting Ted Sarandos from making the deal with David Zaslav? MoffettNathanson analyst Rob Fishman has his thoughts.

There's an industry shift in media and entertainment companies' perspective on how to store their file footage and archival data, with some 85% of respondents to a first-ever global "State of Media Archiving" survey noting they plan to shift to "a horizontally integrated approach to their asset and media management."

One year after its approval, company says ZoneCasting deployments are “modernizing FM radio”

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Who are the best tech-focused leaders in radio and television? Industry leaders are chiming in and offering suggestions as we consider nominations for the fifth annual "Broadcast Media's Top Tech Leaders." Time is running out, as the nomination window closes Friday, December 5.

Simsbury's WSIM was created by the town's fire department after a severe snowstorm

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He was a Democrat who served as a Commissioner on the FCC until departing earlier this year. Now, he has resurfaced at a entity that has little to do with grain elevators and anything depicted in the classic film Footloose.  That's because Grain Management is a private investment firm.

It is one of the largest-ever media transactions to be seen in modern times, and it will bring HBO, HBO Max and the Warner Bros. studio to Netflix.  Financial terms of the agreement and how WBD shareholders will be impacted were shared along with the acquisition announcement early Friday.

Netflix, born out of a DVD-by-mail service, is acquiring Warner Bros. — including its film and television studios, the HBO Max platform in competition with Netflix, and the HBO cable TV network, from the David Zaslav-led Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount had questioned the sale process' "fairness and accuracy."

It’s the creation of Jonathan Katz, who founded the former Katz Broadcasting some 15 years ago and sold it to Scripps Networks in December 2020. Free TV Networks, with over-the-air digital broadcast networks and "FAST" channels at its heard, will soon be a sibling to the newly renamed MS NOW.

All signs point to a thaw in the FCC’s local ownership rules, and to an acceleration of ATSC 3.0 adoption by TV station owners. Has all this generated excitement with brokers? “The most important headline from a broker's perspective really is the potential relaxation of the radio ownership rules,” says Greg Guy.