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FCC urges Supreme Court to reverse lower court’s ruling on political ad rates
The dispute concerns a March 30 Public Notice extending the lowest unit charge benefit to qualifying political party advertisements and certain joint fundraising committees.
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Emmy Awards ceremony leaving traditional TV for Prime Video
The 2027 Prime-Time Emmy Awards will mark the first time that the ceremony has not aired on one of the four broadcast networks.
DIRECTV quietly adds C-SPAN 3 for satellite, streaming customers
DIRECTV's streaming pay television customers are waking up this weekend with one more news channel in their package.
Spectrum adds gateways in 3,200 homes in California development Silverwood
More than 200 homes have already been connected through Spectrum Ready in the Hesperia development.
USA Today files $250 million copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
The newspaper giant claims OpenAI's ChatGPT was trained on more than 100,000 local and national news articles without permission.
Report: DOJ probes boycott by TV networks over White House pool restrictions
ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News are the networks involved in the investigation, according to a report; four of them boycotted the White House press pool last month.
Cable TV out, but broadcasters escape worst from Hurricane Isaias
Broadcast television and radio stations appeared to escape the worst of Hurricane Isaias after the storm made landfall along the Florida panhandle late Friday evening.
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Skydance names sales, ads execs as WBD officials depart
The appointments follow the October 6 combination of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, which now operates under the Skydance name.
BBC, Channel 4 bring possible tie-up to government regulators
The BBC and Channel 4 have held preliminary discussions with the British government about combining some of their commercial operations.
ATSC advances Broadcast-to-Everything technology with new Candidate Standard
B2X is intended to combine the efficiency of one-to-many broadcasting with the reach of mobile and connected device networks.
C-SPAN to televise National Civics Bee Championship for first time
The event will feature 52 middle school students representing all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and American Samoa.
Rachel Stockman named Law&Crime CEO as founder Dan Abrams steps aside
The company's programming generated more than 700 million viewing hours across platforms during the past year.
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