WHY THIS MATTERS:FCC chair Ajit Pai has circulated a media ownership item for a vote at the November meeting that would eliminate the newspaper-broadcast and the radio-TV cross-ownership rules, the eight-voices test for duopolies and the attribution rules for joint sales agreements.
WHY THIS MATTERS:The software lets advertisers choose specific target audiences for campaigns and generates plans for linear TV using real time avails and pricing.
WHY THIS MATTERS:A group of six senators sent a letter to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, Univision CEO Randy Falco and FCC chair Ajit Pai asking the parties to find a resolution to the 10-day-old stand-off.
Wall Street is catching streaming fever. Two leading media analysts, Ben Swinburne of Morgan Stanley and Mark Mahaney of RCB Capital Market, are initiating coverage of Roku, indicating that streaming is becoming an important consumer behavior that investors might be able to cash in on.