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gizmodo.com - Ece Yildirim - FCC Chairman Wants to Repeal a Key Rule That Would Fundamentally Change Broadcast News
FCC Chairman Wants to Repeal a Key Rule That Would Fundamentally Change Broadcast News
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr wants to repeal a rule that has prevented a select handful of broadcasters from taking full control of the media landscape. Back in 2004, Congress instructed the FCC to enact a national…

chron.com - Michael Shapiro - Texas Rangers fans freak out over bizarre new broadcast feature
Texas Rangers fans freak out over bizarre new broadcast feature
Chron

The Texas Rangers are the latest sports franchise to change their streaming partner, with a move from Victory+ to the streaming platform BZZR effective immediately for the second half of the Major League Baseball season. But the change comes with a…

jpost.com - KESHET NEEV - Knesset passes into law sweeping media reform on Israel's broadcasting sector
Knesset passes into law sweeping media reform on Israel's broadcasting sector
The Jerusalem Post

The Knesset plenum passed into law on Thursday the contentious bill led by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, which is set to enact sweeping reforms to Israel's broadcasting sector. The bill passed in its final second and third readings with 53…

theconversation.com - Rachael Jefferson - Europe is cracking down on 'sexualised' broadcasting in women's athletics. Australia must catch up
Europe is cracking down on 'sexualised' broadcasting in women's athletics. Australia must catch up
The Conversation

European Athletics has partnered with the European Broadcasting Union – the world's leading alliance of public service media – to launch a landmark publication that seeks to prevent women athletes from being sexualised. The guidelines…

thewrap.com - A.J. Katz - ABC, NBC Decline to Broadcast Trump's Address, Shift Live Coverage to Streaming News Platforms
ABC, NBC Decline to Broadcast Trump's Address, Shift Live Coverage to Streaming News Platforms
TheWrap

ABC News and NBC News both announced Thursday that they will carry President Donald Trump's 9 p.m. ET speech live on their respective streaming news services while limiting broadcast network coverage, underscoring how the television news industry's…

globes.co.il - Nitsan Shafir - Knesset passes broadcasting reform
Knesset passes broadcasting reform
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Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi's reform of the media market passed second and third readings in the Knesset this evening. The bill was passed by a majority of 53 to 48. In the aftermath of the vote, a series of petitions were immediately…

si.com - Jackson Caudell - Atlanta Hawks New Broadcast Plan For The 2026-2027 Season Is A Huge Win For Fans
Atlanta Hawks New Broadcast Plan For The 2026-2027 Season Is A Huge Win For Fans
Sports Illustrated

The Atlanta Hawks had been broadcasting their games on Fanduel Sports Network, but with Man Street Sports Groups (which owned Fanduel Sports Network) shutting down its NBA and NHL operations, where the Hawks were going to have their games broadcast…

awfulannouncing.com - Drew Lerner - ESPN's Jimmy Pitaro says network is interested in NBA local broadcast hub
ESPN's Jimmy Pitaro says network is interested in NBA local broadcast hub
Awful Announcing

One day after a report surfaced naming YouTube as the front-runner to land a future NBA local broadcast hub planned to launch prior to the 2027-28 season, ESPN is making sure its intentions are known as well. At an event hosted by CNBC and…

awfulannouncing.com - Drew Lerner - Atlanta Hawks reach over-the-air deal with Gray Media for local broadcasts
Atlanta Hawks reach over-the-air deal with Gray Media for local broadcasts
Awful Announcing

The Atlanta Hawks are going over-the-air. According to a report by Tom Friend in Sports Business Journal, the Hawks have formalized a local broadcast deal with Gray Media that will see the team's games air on WANF-Channel 46 in Atlanta, and on the…

fox40.com - Brett Stover - Newsom, Bonta blast FCC plan to lift TV broadcast ownership cap
Newsom, Bonta blast FCC plan to lift TV broadcast ownership cap
FOX40 News

(FOX40.COM) — After the Federal Communications Commission announced plans to scrap a longstanding rule regulating TV broadcast ownership, top California Democrats are pushing back. Currently, television broadcasters are not allowed to own…

zerohedge.com - Tyler Durden - Futures Tumble As Latest Chinese 'DeepSeek Moment' Sparks Chip Meltdown
Futures Tumble As Latest Chinese 'DeepSeek Moment' Sparks Chip Meltdown
Zero Hedge

A surprise breakthrough from Chinese AI startup Moonshot (which is now at the top of the Frontend code benchmark on Arena) rumbled through global markets, sending chip stocks reeling, as queasiness returned about the industry's unprecedented…

forbes.com - John Cassillo - Netflix Earnings: Future Ad Growth Hinging On Live Sports
Netflix Earnings: Future Ad Growth Hinging On Live Sports
Forbes

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Jordan Walker #18 of the St. Louis Cardinals competes in the finals of the 2026 Home Run Derby at Citizens Bank Park on July 13, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images) Amid the…

newswire.ca - Unifor - Corus cuts 43 TV jobs, expanding news deserts in Western Canada
Corus cuts 43 TV jobs, expanding news deserts in Western Canada
CNW

TORONTO, July 16, 2026 /CNW/ -- Unifor is condemning the latest round of layoffs at Corus Entertainment, saying the dozens of job cuts are the latest sign of a broadcasting sector under mounting pressure from media consolidation, delayed government…

nytimes.com - Philip Buckingham - How FIFA built a $10bn World Cup: 'A global mega-event with no parallel'
How FIFA built a $10bn World Cup: 'A global mega-event with no parallel'
The New York Times

FIFA struck a triumphant tone in its financial reports for 2022… and with good reason. Just short of $5.8billion (£4.3bn at the current rate) of revenues had been collected in a year that concluded with a winter World Cup in Qatar.

express.co.uk - Rachel Vickers-Price - US President Donald Trump drops part of BBC lawsuit in latest legal filings
US President Donald Trump drops part of BBC lawsuit in latest legal filings
Daily Express

Trump has dropped part of his lawsuit against the BBC Donald Trump has dumped a portion of his lawsuit against the BBC, as per new legal filings seen on Thursday. The US President has dismissed defamation claims he made against BBC Studios…

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