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The enhancements include customization tools, a streamlined layout and design intended to bring users faster and easier access to local weather data, information and forecasts personalized to user needs and preferences.

Amid broad discussions on AI's impact on media and journalism, NPR is the first major broadcast organization to submit reply comments to the FCC's proposed rules on disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertising.

A FM radio station broadcast licensee serving Las Vegas and St. George, Utah, seeks to gain new business through the use of GeoBroadcast Solutions' "ZoneCasting" and "MaxxCasting." To see both technologies in action, a FCC Commissioner aligned with the Democrats last week took a visit to Las Vegas.

The station had been on the air for one year, and when he walked into the studios for the first time on that February 1948 day, he said, "This is for me. This is what I want to do." Thus began a more than 60-year career at KSDK-5 in St. Louis. Now, the television industry is pausing to pay tribute to Ray Hoffstetter, who has passed away at the age of 98.

A PhD student in the Department of Communication at University of California Santa Barbara, along with her research team, in February 2022 published a scholarly article that examines the role of Radio in a crisis. We are pleased to revisit this piece in the wake of both Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.

From 1989 through early 2003, the station that is today "97.1 The River" served Atlanta as WFOX. Today, an AM using FM translators to reach listeners across the region has brought back the "Fox" branding to the market.  So, what Atlanta FM that was branded "The Fox" across the 2010s is being sold? Look to Michigan for answers.

The National Hockey League season has begun, and the league is advertising itself in a significant way on Spot Cable, the latest data from Media Monitors show. At the same time, the auto insurance specialist category is getting more competitive again at Spot TV.

One of the world's most renowned investors sees value in the satellite radio company looking to gain more ears through smart speakers and smartphone apps. With his investment firm's acquisition of Sirius XM stock, a big comeback was underway in Monday's trading after reaching lows not seen for 12 years.

He's been with Hearst Television since 2006 and has enjoyed more than four decades in broadcast television. Now it is now that the President/GM of the company's NBC affiliate serving Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., and Asheville-Hendersonville, N.C., will retire later this year.

For decades, FOX Deportes and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises have been challengers, of sorts, for viewers and ad dollars when it came to sports coverage of interest to U.S. Hispanics. Now, in a historic first, the two entities are coming together for the sporting world's biggest annual event.