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Charlie Grisham has become one of the nation's most outspoken advocates for local television consumption and advertising. Now he has a message for skittish local businesses: 'Big Tech' is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising, so they should follow their lead because local TV works. 

It's a provider of TV transmitters, ATSC 3.0 products, translator, exciters and gap fillers at all TV bands and power levels and was in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center across the 2025 NAB Show showing of its wares. Now, it is welcoming a Sales Manager who will cover the eastern U.S.

Vizrt, known for its real-time graphics and live production tools, has brought to market a dedicated audio connectivity and monitoring technology product. Introducing Viz Connect Audio, which gives users the ability to manage any and all NDI sources on a network, both visually and aurally.

Avid has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to deliver a cloud-based production framework that helps television production companies address including rising costs, reduced budgets, and increasingly complex workflows.

"If local broadcasters hope to compete, we need your immediate help to level the regulatory playing field"

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Tom and Cheryl Hodgins saved it. Now, they're spinning it to a company that seeks to use it to bring Sports Talk programming to listeners in coastal Oregon. An asset purchase agreement with the details has been filed with the Commission for its regulatory approval.

The agency says it supports “robust foreign investment in U.S. broadcasters”

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The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts; MANA – A National Latina Organization; the National Urban League and the Hispanic Federation have teamed up to pen a letter to the FCC urging modernization of its broadcast ownership rules.

The owner of a Boston-area building found to be the home of an unlicensed radio station has received a "Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting" warning them of a potential fine for harboring the unlicensed FM station using 107.5 MHz.

He's been the head of the television advertising advocacy group known colloquially as TVB since January 2010, and has been a key advocate of linear television across the last 15 years in an era where digital advertising growth continues to accelerate. At the end of 2025, Steve Lanzano will officially retire as President/CEO.