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After earning a reputation at Pivotal Research, Brian Wieser established Madison and Wall as a strategic advisory and data provider for the global advertising industry. Now, he's expanding his leadership team by bringing on an eight-year veteran of one of Canada's biggest media companies. 

She highlights the harm of “baseless attacks on public media”

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A former FCC attorney advisor is being welcomed as the newest associate at law firm Lerman Senter. She started her new role on April 15.

He spent more than 14 years as Director of Sales at TEGNA's WXIA "11Alive" and MyNetwork sibling WATL-TV in Atlanta and is a former Tribune Broadcasting sales leader, leading efforts for the company's Indianapolis TV stations.  Now, Tim McNamara is returning to a station he spent five years at earlier in his career.

Global consumer media usage, including all digital and traditional media channels, increased 2.4% in 2024 to an average of 57.2 hours per week, following a sharp deceleration in time spent with media growth in 2023. That's according to new findings in a just-released report from PQ Media.

As RBR+TVBR has shared with readers across 2025, ad dollars to content publishers and broadcasters have only come in spurts. A newly released report from WARC examines the conundrum — along with a potentially alarming shift in ad spend from what WARC calls "professionally produced content" to "user-generated and 'creator-journalists'."

National advertising sales specialist Katz Media Group has promoted from within to fill the roles of VP of Political Sales and Director of Political Sales, respectively. Each individual reports to CEO Mark Gray.

The Walker River Paiute Tribe of Native Americans in Nevada, due east of Lake Tahoe, has entered into a consent decree with the FCC that resolves a matter in which the tribe was tardy with the license renewals for a series of low-power TV stations it owns.

It is a 1kw Class C facility on the AM band that offers residents of a Mid-Missouri town St. Louis Blues hockey coverage, St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, University of Missouri sports and is a sibling to the "Your World Today" local news brand.  Soon, it will have different ownership.

Collapse of multiple towers knock out radio and TV stations as damage estimates rise

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