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The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV reports are out for broadcast and cable activity for the week ending July 27, and the big news involves a venerable Unilever health and beauty aid brand that has emerged as a significant user of both Spot Cable and Spot Television.

Fubo has filed a preliminary proxy statement seeking shareholder approval of the "Sports First" vMVPD's previously announced — and pending — business combination with The Walt Disney Company’s Hulu + Live TV. Most market observers consider this a mere formality, with Fubo's sale tied to the death of Venu Sports.

What happens when you fail to pay your regulatory fees associated with an AM radio station for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2023, and it’s nearly halfway through 2025? You pay up or show cause as to why you can’t. A Kentucky station owner did neither. Now, the station's license has been lost.

The use of a FM booster station to originate programming in order to bring Geo Broadcast Services' ZoneCasting technology to its full fruition is now wholly allowable for those operators who wish to invest in it.

Gray Media late Friday shared that it has completed its previously announced offering of $775 million aggregate principal amount of 7.250% senior secured first lien notes due 2033. The Notes were issued at par.

Global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas has taken note of an emerging trend of companies’ reliance on interim leadership that's certainly worthy of media industry attention.

The E.W. Scripps Co. has launched an offering of $650 million of new senior secured second-lien notes. Scripps, which made the announcement ahead of Monday's Opening Bell on Wall Street, says the notes are expected to mature in 2030.

23% of PPM listening occasions were three or four minutes

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The Federal Communications Commission’s Rules for an upcoming AWS-3 auction will pave the way for approximately 200 spectrum licenses to come to market. The FCC's spectrum auction authority had expired under President Biden and getting it back was a chief priority of Chairman Brendan Carr.

The owner of properties including KTTV-11 in L.A. has selected the Monarch Revenue Management and CRM platform to drive operational efficiency, enhance visibility, and optimize advertising revenue across their growing portfolio of linear, digital, OTT, and CTV channels.