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With the loss of "Newsradio 880" and its closure by Audacy Inc., there's a little less financial news on Gotham's radio dial, aside from Bloomberg's flagship WBBR-AM 1130. The spoken word operation owned by John Catsimatidis is changing that, with twice-daily weekday reports being added to the lineup.

The Syracuse-based company that owns radio stations in Central New York founded by President/CEO Ed Levine has moved ahead with a series of internal leadership promotions. Among the moves is the elevation of its Chief Revenue Officer to the position of Chief Operating Officer.

Samsung Electronics on Thursday hosted a Visual Display (VD) Deep Dive session at CES 2026 designed to unveil the television set manufacturer's vision for the industry's next era. As the global TV market enters a new phase, Samsung outlined its strategy for the future of television.

With the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, some creative ways of coping with the funding loss have emerged. One involves the auctioning off — for thousands of dollars — of an artist made famous by Member stations in years past and has become a Generation Z icon.

On August 14, 2025, Nexstar Media Group shares surged to an all-time high of $211.31, and then began a three-month downturn. Since then, however, Nasdaq-traded "NXST" has experienced a sharp rebound, with a strong upward trajectory that began in early December. It hasn't ceased.

Starting January 10, two women are poised to co-host the show from CBS Broadcast Center in New York. One joined CBS News in 2012 and previously served as co-host of CBS Mornings Plus, and the anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS Weekend News. The other arrived at CBS in 2024 from Fox Business.

The FCC has released its January Open Meeting agenda, and among the four items up for a vote is  a Fourth Report and Order that would permit a new class of unlicensed 6 GHz devices—geofenced variable power (GVP) unlicensed devices—that operate outdoors at higher power.

"Closing the digital divide" was a mantra of ex-FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. It was a focal point for multicultural media leaders through the start of the decade. As 2026 begins, is there still a partition when it comes to smartphone ownership and internet use? Pew Research Center has an answer.

He signed an FM radio station in Crowley, La., on the air in 1977 and later purchased three low-power TV stations in the Bayou State. Barry D. Thompson was the owner, and died in September. This necessitated a shift in the ownership of the media properties, and the FCC has just granted that request.

It was reintroduced at the start of 2025, and again attracted overwhelming bipartisan support from Members of Congress. Yet, the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act has stalled in both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The Commander-in-Chief has made it clear he wants forward movement on the proposal.