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Cogeco’s US cable business is still losing customers, and the company’s answer now includes a TV streaming product launched in the US, along with wireless, a new digital brand, and new sales channels. Canada is growing, while its radio group saw revenue fall nearly 19%, and the fiscal 2027 outlook points to lower overall.

Is an AI-generated voice that sounds like a radio host a use of that host’s identity? A California court isn’t saying yes, but it isn’t saying no either. Former NPR host David Greene’s suit against Google over NotebookLM now moves ahead, with the facts still to be fought out.

Stating that defendants “likely used public dollars to unlawfully finance a national media campaign in the final weeks before the November 2026 elections,” US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan has frozen a $20 million government ad campaign that put campaign-style spots on national TV, but her decision is raising questions for those that carried the spots.

Broadcasters hoping for movement on ownership limits will keep waiting, at least until December. The focal point of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s November meeting agenda is an order authorizing state and local jails to jam contraband cellphones, the lead item on a five-item November meeting agenda he previewed in his monthly blog post, themed around Halloween.

TelevisaUnivision’s third quarter ran on two tracks: a World Cup-fueled 51% revenue jump in Mexico, and a 24% drop in US advertising, with a $372 million write-down on broadcast licenses tipping the company into an operating loss despite a 9% gain in total revenue.

The Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Texas have taken a contentious question about who pays what for political airtime to a federal court in Amarillo with a request that would either widen candidates’ rate break or, as a fallback, end it.

A step-by-step walkthrough from a college station of the EAS filing

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Inspection of four Billings stations found unassigned monitoring source and missing test logs

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Solutions will need to evolve quickly and anticipate custom workflow demands

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Nasdaq-traded Comcast spinoff Versant on Wednesday brought to life a quartet of free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels tied to "past franchises" from CNBC, Oxygen and E!. This grows Versant's FAST portfolio to 13, and brings the offerings to Amazon Prime Video and, as of November 3, The Roku Channel.