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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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NAFB survey finds 42% of farmers prefer radio over magazines, TV

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Roger S. Haddon is known across the radio broadcasting industry for his time as a Music Director, as a Program Director and as the President/CEO of the Sunbury Broadcasting Corp., comprised of four radio stations. Haddon has now decided to sell one of those properties.

Two U.S. Senators have asked the Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to lift its freeze on grants that are designed help improve the resiliency of public broadcasting stations.