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A look at the meteorologists leaving broadcast news to become independent streamers; 19 meteorologists have joined the Digital Weather Network, founded in 2022 (Elizabeth Hewitt/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/meteorologists

Meet the meteorologists leaving broadcast behind.
In an era of extreme weather, indie weathermen are streaming coverage 24-7—and banding together.

CBS says The Late Show was not prohibited from broadcasting a James Talarico interview and was given "legal guidance" that a broadcast could trigger an FCC rule (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-d

CBS Denies Forcing Stephen Colbert to Not Air Talarico Interview Over FCC Rule
CBS said it did not force "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" to pull an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico from its TV broadcast Monday, contrary to the way the late-night host had framed it. Rather, according to CBS, its legal team provided "guidance" to "The Late Show" that Talarico's appearance could "trigger the FCC's equal-time rule."

Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7DPSP65JA

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Broadcast:
🎵 The World Backwards (Radio 1 Session, 15 Sep 1996)
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-backwards
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ldqjF3K2q58ogl8Bbc4aw

When Does AI Fakery Become AI Reality?
We are living in the precise historical moment when the question "Is this real?" has become unanswerable in real time, and the fact that nobody seems particularly alarmed by this should alarm us all. The case study arrived this month with the force of a wartime broadcast, which is exactly what it was: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose physical whereabouts and physical condition have been the subject of intense…

When Does AI Fakery Become AI Reality? | David Boles, Blogs
We are living in the precise historical moment when the question “Is this real?” has become unanswerable in real time, and the fact that nobody seems particularly alarmed by this should…

Greg Olsen, Kevin Burkhardt to reunite on Fox to broadcast flag football event https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7123514/2026/03/16/greg-olsen-kevin-burkhardt-fox-flag-football-tom-brady/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Janacek's Suite - ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’
Elizabeth Alker introduces performances from the UK and beyond including a live concert broadcast from Media City UK in Salford by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdg2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broadcast:
🎵 Arc of a Journey
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/arc-of-a-journey
https://open.spotify.com/track/3bEL0LHSMUsdMxbB7Hv2pM

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

Artemis II re-entry, livestream
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-comes-home-official-broadcast/

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Comes Home (Official Broadcast)
Around the Moon and back. Watch the Artemis II astronauts come home. NASA's Artemis II mission is splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at about 8:07 p.m. EDT

FCC chair & Trump sycophant Brendan Carr & CBS blocked the broadcast of Stephen Colbert's Interview of James Talarico.
So here's his interview of James Talarico... on YouTube.
▶️ Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Da...
https://youtube.com/watc…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Broadcast:
🎵 Black Cat
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/black-cat
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Lbm0ObmRqhWhPmvixtI3H

Good article from Graham Fisher of Broadcast 2040 in this week's Big Issue
Why Freeview should not be switched off.
See also,
#Broadcast2040

Home | Broadcast 2040+
The Broadcast 2040+ campaign brings together a range of voices with a shared goal – to secure the future of broadcast TV and radio to 2040 and beyond.

Sources: the English Premier League extends its South America and Caribbean broadcast contract with ESPN through 2031 in a £450M deal, up 25% from the last deal (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/f…

Senators reaffirmed the 39% cap; this particular station locally is one of the stations that joined in a chorus of corporate-mandated, right-wing propaganda documented a couple of years ago...
a Lawmakers revisit broadcast ownership limits as industry pushes consolidation
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/lawmakers-revisit-broadcast-ownership-limits-as-industry-pushes-consolidation

You don't need AI to summarize that thing you need to read for you. No matter how long it is, you'll have plenty of time to get through it during the commercial breaks of whatever North American sports broadcast you watch next.

RE: #NationalTheater fundraising broadcast. I quite enjoy "The Import…

Colbert's interview on YouTube with US Senate candidate James Talarico has drawn over 6M views as of Wednesday afternoon in the US, after it was posted Monday (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/18/youtube-tv-trump-rules-digital-gap-colber…

Colbert's YouTube post exposes digital gap in TV rules
Colbert exposed how FCC rules built for broadcast don't apply to today's digital platforms.

NBC appears to cut crowd's booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast (Tom Lutz/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p148#a260206p148

He nerds, zitten jullie ook te kijken?
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-launches-to-the-moon-official-broadcast/

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon (Official Broadcast)
Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will send NASA

In 11 Minuten startet Artemis II
https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-launches-to-the-moon-official-broadcast

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon (Official Broadcast)
Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will send NASA

JD Vance at the 2026 Olympics got blasted with what the real world - not Trump's sycophants - thinks of him. Not good.
NBC didn't broadcast any of the crowd's boos/ jeers, but his subdued reaction shown on European broadcasts was classic.
https://www.

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

Justice Department investigating NFL over how it handles broadcast rights as league pushes back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-investigation-justice-department-broadcas…

The Babyface Broadcast
The bizarre antics of Lord Mark Williamson and Dann Lennard as they create Australia's Greatest Wrestling Event...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-babyface-broadcast/

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs
Wel afwachten of de cameramensen en regie Artemis2 dit keer goed kunnen volgen... 🤔
Hier trouwens BBC1 waar ze ook nog wat meer kletsen

Russian forces panic as inactive Starlink terminals reportedly broadcast location data: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/08/russian-forces-panic-as-inactive.html

NFL fans want Tony Romo to 'shut up' during CBS broadcast of Broncos-Patriots https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/nfl-tony-romo-shut-cbs-broadcast-broncos-patriots/afa882b2ea30dee6f6c19e5…

TV - whether broadcast or streaming is so filled with murder mystery shows, particularly ones from the UK, that I wonder why those places have not become depopulated.
I mean, why would anyone chose to live in Cabot Cove, Maine? Seems like that must be the murder capital of the universe.

US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by ⭐️a chorus of boos
when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympicsin Milan on Friday,
🔥although American viewers watching NBC’s coverage would have been unaware of the reception.
The reaction was shown on Canadian broadcaster CBC’s feed, with one commentator saying: “There is the vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha
– oops, those are not … uh … those are a lot of boos for him.
Whistling, jeering, s…

If you're in favour of ditching digital services/platforms run by US billionaires, there is a Westminster debate this afternoon on #DigitalSovereignty. It is broadcast live online, and that debate is third of three debates starting at 14:30. Hard to say exactly when it will start, so check back a few times over the next hour or so:

Parliamentlive.tv
Westminster Hall

"Zero-waste community kitchens turn scraps into flavor-packed dishes"
#Food #FoodWaste

Zero-waste community kitchens turn scraps into flavor-packed dishes
Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

As @… noticed, the study on how stalkers can exploit Tile tracking tags, which I noticed this past week and included in Metacurity's long reads issue today, was published last September, after which she wrote a piece in Wired about it. Mea culpa.

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.

South Korean public broadcaster KBS partners with Sinclair to offer Korean-language programming via Sinclair's NextGen TV stations across the US (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/03/kbs-sinclair-tv-channel-pact-korean/

SCOOP: Korean broadcaster to partner with Sinclair on NextGen TV channel
K-Channel 82 is expected to reach about 30 million homes through Sinclair’s NextGen TV broadcast network.

It’s a funny meme, but it is important to remember that the only time Reagan explicitly threatened nuclear war, he thought the microphone was off.
Trump’s threat was a completely different thing. He broadcast it in a way that assured it would be repeated everywhere and taken seriously. @…

FeloniousPunk (@FeloniousPunk@beige.party)
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What the DOJ's NFL investigation could mean for networks, fans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48446280/doj-nfl-investigation-tv-television-broadcast-rights-fans

apparently, the velvet underground did a quad broadcast in the bay area in june 1970, aired on KQED/KPFA. maybe taped at their final san francisco shows in late '69, so some more MIA (pro mixed) tapes!? via @grantmcphee.bsky.social awesome VU project. https://grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Broadcast:
🎵 Black Cat
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/black-cat
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Lbm0ObmRqhWhPmvixtI3H

So nice to hear Rob Navias at the #ArtemisII broadcast. Absolute legend.

What a chaotic launch broadcast for an historic mission ... here is the only lift-off full view, visible merely for a brief fraction of a second. Anyway, Orion and ESM are in Earth orbit now!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Broadcast:
🎵 The Book Lovers
#Broadcast
https://stpetersburg.bandcamp.com/track/broadcast-the-book-lovers
https://open.spotify.com/track/1c8L2UYpJp0EkilO1duOK8

"The lesson isn’t “be accurate” or “be fair.” The lesson is: make us look good, or face the consequences."
NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit? | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hi

NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit?
If you watched NBC’s prime time broadcast of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you saw Vice President JD Vance in the stands at San Siro Stadium in Milan with his wife, Usha. Th…

#NASA's #Artemis II Crew Launches To The #Moon (Official Broadcast)

(This comes via neighbor chat, someone hearing a live interview. Wasn’t clear from the message whether that was a broadcast interview or conversation on the ground. Trying to find further info.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broadcast:
🎵 I Want to Be Fine
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/i-want-to-be-fine
https://open.spotify.com/track/6L8YshgIVLK45UhxmQcnKx

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite | TechCrunch
Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

The Canadian F1 Grand Prix will be on Netflix, for US Netflix only
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/netflix-first-live-f1-race-canadian-gp-apple-tv-deal/

#BBCBias

BBC Cuts 'Free Palestine' From Akinola Davies Jr.'s BAFTAs Speech
My Father's Shadow' helmer Akinola Davies Jr. saying "free Palestine" was cut from the BAFTA Film Awards broadcast on the BBC.

Sources: the NBA may launch a streaming hub for local broadcasts next season, a year earlier than planned, due to the upcoming demise of Main Street Sports RSNs (Tom Friend/Sports Business Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Arti

Sources: NBA exploring national broadcast hub as soon as next season
The NBA has informed its teams that it may launch a streaming hub for local broadcasts as soon as next season —a year earlier than expected — as a result of Main Street Sports Group’s impending demise in April, multiple sources told SBJ.

ArtSound Radio Theatre
Presents short radio plays originally broadcast on ArtSound FM in Canberra Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/artsound-radio-theatre/

"How to spot climate misinformation on social media"
#Climate #ClimateChange #SocialMedia

How to spot climate misinformation on social media
Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Broadcast:
🎵 A Man For Atlantis
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/a-man-for-atlantis
https://open.spotify.com/track/68WBbyFu3nfXgrhqZd5bJK

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Broadcast:
🎵 Black Cat
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/black-cat
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Lbm0ObmRqhWhPmvixtI3H

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

Yesterday, there was full moon out at the Chicago Cubs-Tampa Bay Rays game.
Color commentator says, "ew" & the broadcast booth mics all hit mute at the same time.
#floridaman
https://w…

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (**Official Broadcast**) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

Nielsen delays the release of The Gauge, its monthly snapshot of broadcast, cable, and streaming consumption, by a week; it will likely show a streaming decline (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nielsen-delay-march-gau…

Nielsen Will Delay March Gauge' Report After Streamers Fret
Nielsen Will Delay March 'Gauge' Report After Streamers Fret Over Audience Declines

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Broadcast:
🎵 The Book Lovers
#Broadcast
https://stpetersburg.bandcamp.com/track/broadcast-the-book-lovers
https://open.spotify.com/track/1c8L2UYpJp0EkilO1duOK8

Truly THE sport of all time. Nothing can beat it.

Nielsen: sports accounted for 29.2% of all ad-supported TV viewing by 25-to-54-year-olds in Q4; broadcast made up 9.8% of non-sports viewing and streaming 43% (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/sports-tv-viewing-advertising-nielsen-1236750721/…

Sports Programming Accounts For Almost 30% Of All Ad-Supported TV Viewing, Nielsen Says
While the rise of sports programming in recent years has been well-documented, new figures from Nielsen illustrate the extent of its dominance.

U.S. rescues missing crew member in Iran after fighter jet shot down
“WE GOT HIM!" Donald Trump posted Sunday just after midnight,
announcing the safe return of the missing airman and those who risked their lives to save him.
The operation was high risk,
with U.S. C-130s and rescue helicopters flying low and slow over Iran’s mountainous terrain to locate the missing airman.
As the search was ongoing, Iranian television broadcast a statement offering a rew…

U.S. rescues missing crew member in Iran after fighter jet shot down
“WE GOT HIM!” President Donald Trump posted Sunday just after midnight, announcing the safe return of the missing airman and all who risked their lives to save him.

evening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i

Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - 2001-10-13 - Volcán del Cuervo, Lanzarote, Spain : Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
BRIAN ENO & J. PETER SCHWALM BETWEEN US & IT A performed installation of 4-D MUSIC13th October, 2001. Volcán del Cuervo, Lanzarote.digital radio > wav >...

WATCH! Finnish volunteer Karlo: frontline reality in Ukraine | Live Broadcast: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/watch-finnish-volunteer-karlo-frontline.html

An internal email indicates the BBC plans to shut down its central regional investigations unit, launched in 2022, as part of new cuts to BBC Local (Kevin Stanley/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/…

BBC proposes to close central regional investigations unit
BBC Local is proposing to close a unit dedicated to investigative journalism in the English regions less than four years after it was set up.

ESPN expected to change No. 2 broadcasting team after NFL Network deal: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7166718/2026/04/02/espn-nfl-network-broadcast-analyst-team-changes/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broadcast:
🎵 You Can Fall
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/you-can-fall
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YZQslKWYbra9nP3VtqQMZ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
The Soundcarriers:
🎵 Last Broadcast
#TheSoundcarriers
https://the-soundcarriers.bandcamp.com/track/last-broadcast-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5CaXD9VXDlNVVUgoZaVpSa

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

Study: local broadcast TV supported 1.5M US jobs in 2025 and had a $748B annual GDP impact, with advertising accounting for the largest share at $628B (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/broadcast-tv-economic-contributions-2025/

Report: Broadcast TV contributed $748 billion to U.S. economy in 2025
Advertising drove the majority of the impact, accounting for nearly $628 billion in economic output.

SB LX, halftime show fall shy of ratings records https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47891761/super-bowl-lx-bad-bunny-half-fall-shy-ratings-records

TikTok plans to launch TikTok Radio, a live audio channel that blends creator content and music, on March 13 on the iHeartRadio app and on 28 US stations (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/tiktok-radio-podcast-network-ihea…

TikTok Radio and Podcasts Launching With iHeartMedia
TikTok and iHeartMedia are launching TikTok Radio on the free iHeartRadio app and on 28 broadcast stations, plus a slate of creator podcasts, after TikTok's deal with SiriusXM ended last year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Broadcast:
🎵 The Equestrian Vortex
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/the-equestrian-vortex
https://open.spotify.com/track/16DATD29xLIGtVkwntavkI

This Year’s Super Bowl Ads Were Dominated by AI Companies https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/business/dealbook/super-bowl-ads-ai.html

Apple's Eddy Cue says viewership for F1's first race weekend on Apple TV was up compared to the first weekend in 2025 on ESPN, exceeding expectations (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Apple Revs Up Formula 1: Eddy Cue Says Response to First Race “Exceeding Both F1 and Apple Expectations” (Exclusive)
The Apple executive says that viewership for the Australian Grand Prix was up on Apple TV compared to last year's broadcast on ESPN.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Broadcast:
🎵 Subject to the Ladder
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/subject-to-the-ladder
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OS05hpsNSW2yTowPuX4vw

The FCC seeks comments on how sports rights changes are affecting consumers as more events move to streaming platforms; initial comment deadline is March 27 (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/regulatory-legal/fcc-launches-inq…

FCC Launches Inquiry Into Broadcast Sports Rights
The Media Bureau is seeking comments on such issues as the shift of rights away from free-to-air broadcasts

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

How NBC's Cris Collinsworth, Mike Tirico prepare for Super Bowl 60 broadcast https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7007700/2026/01/30/super-bowl-60-2026-broadcasters-nbc-tirico-collinsworth/

Nielsen: CBS' Grammy broadcast averaged 14.41M viewers, down 6% from 15.4M in 2025 and a 17.09M post-pandemic high in 2024; Disney will broadcast it from 2027 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2026-gra…

TV Ratings: Grammys Draw 14.4 Million Viewers, Decline in Final Year on CBS
The audience for the awards falls by about 6 percent from 2025.

The FCC approved the transfer of five broadcast TV licenses to Sinclair, in Oregon, California, Maine, Virginia, and Tennessee; DirecTV opposed the move (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/fcc-approves-transfer-of-five-tv-station-…

FCC approves transfer of five TV station licenses to Sinclair
The FCC approved five broadcast TV license transfers to Sinclair, creating duopolies in markets where it already operated stations.

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

At a US Senate hearing on ownership caps for local TV stations, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy opposed lifting the cap, while NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt supported the move (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/fcc-ownership-cap-senate-hearing-newsmax-nab/

FCC broadcast TV ownership cap gets hearing on Capitol Hill
Lawmakers showed mixed views, balancing concerns over consolidation against fears that failing to modernize rules will further weaken local TV news.

How to watch 2026 HBCU Legacy Bowl: Start time, broadcast info, players to know https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7061295/2026/02/21/hbcu-legacy-bowl-2026-how-to-watch/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Broadcast:
🎵 Follow The Light
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/follow-the-light
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ChV846K03RE1j9bRSBq3J

Report: ITV won't show ads during the World Cup's three-minute hydration breaks despite FIFA giving media partners permission to do so during the 2026 contest (Steve McCaskill/SportsPro)
https://www.sportspro.com/broadcast-ott/fifa-world-cup-drinks…

Email: a BBC review found that including a racial slur shouted by a Tourette's campaigner during the BAFTAs broadcast was a breach of its editorial standards (Gemma Peplow/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-breache

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Broadcast:
🎵 I Found The F
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/i-found-the-f
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qr2hBL12NbRmFWKlzI3Zs

Channel 4 pulls the last episode of The Great Celebrity Bake Off as it features Scott Mills, who the BBC sacked as a DJ over allegations about personal conduct (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/the-great-celebrit…

‘The Great Celebrity Bake Off’ Pulls Scott Mills Episode
The last episode of ‘The Great Celebrity Bake Off’ has been pulled from broadcast because it stars DJ Scott Mills.

Source: Warner Bros. raised concerns about the involuntary racial slur during the BAFTA Film Awards and requested the incident be removed from the BBC broadcast (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/warner-bros-complained-bafta-racial-s…

Warner Bros. Complained About BAFTA Racial Slur Incident & Requested It Be Cut From BBC Broadcast
Warner Bros. raised concerns about involuntary racial slur directed at 'Sinners' stars during the BAFTA Film Awards, requesting a cut to BBC show.

In a staff meeting, Bari Weiss says CBS News will be "toast" if it clings to its broadcast audience and will put a "huge emphasis on scoops...scoops of ideas" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…

Bari Weiss Unveils Sweeping Vision: “I Am Here to Make CBS News Fit for Purpose in the 21st Century”
Weiss rallied the troops and outlined her vision at an all-hands meeting Tuesday morning, naming a lineup of new contributors: "Our strategy until now has been to cling to the audience that remains on broadcast television. If we stick to that strategy we're toast."

Netflix will livestream the Artemis II lunar flyby today; it didn't carry the live feed of the historic launch on April 1 despite its NASA deal (Kasey Moore/What's on Netflix)
https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflix-artemis-ii-livestream-details/…

Netflix Missed the Artemis II Launch, But Will Livestream the Lunar Flyby
While the streaming giant skipped the historic Artemis II liftoff, Netflix has officially confirmed it will broadcast the crew's epic lunar flyby live to subscribers worldwide on April 6th.

Sources: a coalition of states including California, Colorado, and New York prepares to sue on antitrust grounds if the Nexstar-Tegna deal gets FCC approval (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/states-

Sources: the NFL is set to open negotiations to revise its broadcast and streaming contracts in the coming months despite a $120B deal that runs to the 2030s (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/nfl-tv-deals-roger-goodell.html

NFL Wants to Revise TV Deals Years Before They Expire
The league is so important to the business of media companies that they are likely to have little choice but to agree to renegotiations.

President Trump signs an order granting an exclusive broadcast window for the Army-Navy football game, aired on CBS; media experts call the order likely illegal (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/20/trump-army-navy-game/

Trump orders TV networks to protect Army-Navy football game
The president wants to grant an exclusive broadcast window for the game, which faces scheduling pressure.

The FCC approves the sale of certain local broadcast TV stations from Tegna to Nexstar, granting a waiver from a cap limiting how many stations can be owned (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/fcc-approves-nexstar-tegna-merger-1236760998/…

FCC Gives Greenlight To Nexstar-Tegna Merger Amid Challenge From California And Other States
The FCC has approved Nexstar‘s merger with Tegna, less than a day after California and other state attorneys general filed suit to block the transaction. The merger, which will create a broadcast station giant, was given the greenlight by the agency’s Media Bureau. The agency also granted Nexstar a waiver from an ownership cap. In […]

Netflix averaged 3M viewers for its Opening Night MLB game March 25, a bit short of NBC and Peacock's MLB broadcast the next night, with 3.2M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mlb-opening…

Baseball’s New TV Partners Deliver Solid Audiences on Opening Day(s)
Netflix and NBC each draw 3 million viewers for their first primetime telecasts under a new deal with MLB.

Australia's Nine Entertainment plans to sell its broadcast radio business to the Laundy family for AU$56M and buy digital outdoor ad firm QMS Media for AU$850M (Roushni Nair/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Fox, Sinclair, and NAB file FCC comments urging US regulators to address the trend of Big Tech companies buying sports rights, saying it could weaken local TV (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustaina…

CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil interviewed his own mother during Tuesday's broadcast regarding the cognitive benefits of grandparenting (Martin Holmes/Yahoo Entertainment)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/cbs-evening-new…

‘CBS Evening News’: Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom
Viewers accuse CBS News of 'dumbing down.

The BBC cut "Free Palestine" from Akinola Davies Jr.'s BAFTA awards speech broadcast; the BBC says "the live event is three hours and it has to be" cut to two (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-cuts-free-p…

BBC Cuts “Free Palestine” From BAFTA Film Awards Winner’s Speech
The BBC removed the words "free Palestine" from the speech of Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies after they won a BAFTA Film Award.