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Tradition determines that the individual seated shotgun is in control of the vehicles music. But due to a brand-new app and Volkswagens new infotainment system, thats about to change.

Volkswagen models geared up with the two most expensive models of Volkswagens new infotainment system, Discover Navigation or Discover Navigation Pro, can be utilized with VWs also-new Volkswagen Media Control app. Available for both iOS and Android, it enables users to connect to the infotainment system making use of its built-in WLAN connection.

Once a passenger gets in touch with the infotainment system, they can control the music, volume, speaker balance and fade. Not just they can backseat guests scan radio stations, they can play music with their devices as well as make calls utilizing the vehicles integrated speakers and microphone. App users can likewise input destinations and set the navigation system.

Media Control App provides almost complete control of the infotainment system to every traveler.

The good news is, the motorist can disable the nav systems WLAN connection at any time, preventing others from pirating the infotainment controls.

The most significant vehicle to include VWs brand-new infotainment system (in the US, at least) is the refreshed-for-2018 Volkswagen Golf. The mid-range screens are now 8.0 inches, higher than 6.5 previously. The range-topping Discover Navigation Pro determines a massive 9.2 inches.

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Nearly $10 million allocated to the Army Corps of Engineers will pay for work to insure the integrity of the Chan Flood Control Project in North Pole.

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Project Manager Tim Faevel said additional relief wells will be installed along the seven-mile long earthen dam to protect it from ground water seepage during high water events.

Those are the black pipes that you see on the downstream side of the dam, Faevel said. Theres about 160 of them in place right now, and what those do is they relieve that uplift pressure from the ground water associated with a a high pool level.

Faevel said water that comes out of the relief wells is channeled back to the Chena River. He said drilling of the new wells along will get underway this summer in areas showing signs of seepage under the dam.

You might see some small sand boils or something like that where it might be percolating underneath, Faevel said.Thats the place to install relief wells. And so far its been minor and we wanna keep ahead of it.

The Chena Flood Control Project, completed in 1980, is designed to protect Fairbanks from high water events like the 1967 flood that inundated the community 50 years ago this August. $9.7million for Chena Flood Control project maintenance and operations is included in an omnibus appropriations bill that passed the US Senate last week.

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$10 million allocated to North Pole flood control project - Alaska Public Radio Network

Sinclair Broadcast Group said today it will pay$3.9 billion to buy Tribune Media Company and its 42local TV stations, beating out 21st Century Fox to land the deal.

Sinclair already has 173 local news stations. The combined operations of the two companies will create the largest-single group of local TV stations.

The deal calls for Sinclair to acquire 100 percent of Tribune Media for $43.50 a share. Sinclair also will assume about $2.7 billion in Tribune Media debt, according to the companies.

Tribune Media owns local TV stations across the country, including WGN in Chicago, WPIX in New York, KTLA in Los Angeles and WDCW in Washington. It also has minority stakes in Food Network and CareerBuilder.

Based in Hunt Valley, Md., north of Baltimore, Sinclair mostly owns stations in smaller markets, such as WUTV in Buffalo and WVTV in Milwaukee. One of its largest stations is WJLA in Washington.

This is a transformational acquisition for Sinclair that will open up a myriad of opportunities for the company, Chris Ripley, chief executiveof Sinclair, said in a news release.

Tribune Media said in a statement that it expects Federal Communications Commissions rules on ownership and antitrust regulations may result in Sinclair selling some stations.

Current FCC rules limit the national TV audience thatany single owner can reach at39 percent. Regulations also prohibit any owner from running more than two stations in most markets.

But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai who was elevated to his post by President Trump earlier this year has indicated in speeches that he wantsto loosen the TV ownership rules. Last month, Pais FCC reinstated a rule that helps station owners get around the national audience cap. The so-called UHF discount allows stations to count just 50percent of its audience from UHF stations toward the audience cap. Last fall, the FCC, under President Obama, revoked the UHF cap. Now, with its return last month, stations have more room to stay under the cap.

A week ago, Rupert Murdochs 21st Century Fox reportedly planned to join the bidding for Tribune.

With Sinclair beating out its much bigger rival, the company gains access to Tribunes larger metro markets.

This shows that Sinclair needs to be taken seriously as a media powerhouse, saidMatt Rizzetta, head of public relations firm North 6th Agency in New York.

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Sinclair Broadcast to buy Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, giving it control over 215 local TV stations - Washington Post

Google and Facebook together accounted for 20% of the global advertising expenditure across all media in 2016, up from 11% in 2012, according to the new edition of Zeniths Top Thirty Global Media Owners, published on Monday. The two companies captured 64% of all the growth in global adspend between 2012 and 2016.

The Top Thirty Global Media Owners report is Zeniths unique ranking of the worlds largest media companies, and has been published since 2007. For this edition, the agency decided to update their methodology and focus purely on media owners revenues from advertising, excluding revenues from all other activities, to give a true measure of their status in the global advertising market.

Google (under its holding company Alphabet) is, by some distance, the largest media owner in the world, attracting USD 79.4 bn in ad revenue in 2016, three times more than the second-largest Facebook which attracted USD 26.9 bn. The largest traditional media owner is Comcast, which takes third place in the ranking, with USD 12.9 bn in ad revenue.

Zenith had stated in their quarterly Advertising Expenditure Forecasts that internet advertising has overtaken television to become the worlds largest advertising medium this year. Accordingly, digital platforms that are funded by internet advertising dominate their top 30 ranking. As well as Alphabet and Facebook, there are five more pure-internet media owners in the top 30: Baidu, Microsoft, Yahoo, Verizon and Twitter. Between them, the seven digital platforms generated USD 132.8 bn in internet ad revenue in 2016 that is 73% of all internet adspend, and 24% of global adspend across all media.

Verizon became a media owner in 2015 when it bought AOL, and if all goes to plan, will become a much larger one when it acquires Yahoo later this year. Verizon takes 21st place in the current ranking; adding Yahoo to AOL would boost it to sixth.

The fastest-growing media owner on the list is Twitter, which increased its ad revenues by 734% between 2012 and 2016. Tencent is second, having grown by 697% over this period, and Facebook is third, with 528% growth. Two other media owners have more than doubled in size between 2012 and 2016: Baidu, which grew 190%, and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which grew 171%.

Most of the media owners on the Zenith ranking 20 out of 30 are based in the US. The US dominates for several reasons, they explain: the US has the biggest ad market, US companies have invested the most in extending their reach abroad, and Silicon Valley innovation has powered the growth of internet advertising. China and Germany each have three media owners in the ranking (Baidu, Tencent and CCTV for China, and Bertelsmann, ProSiebenSat.1 and Axel Springer for Germany). Then there are four countries with one media owner each: France (JCDecaux), Brazil (Grupo Globo), Italy (Mediaset) and the UK (ITV).

The scale of the biggest platforms highlights the importance of building strong partnerships between agencies and media owners, said Vittorio Bonori, Zeniths Global Brand President. Brands need to deal with these platforms to communicate with consumers effectively and efficiently, and agencies need to ensure they do so on the best terms available.

Zeniths new ranking demonstrates just how much the internet advertising platforms are setting the pace for global adspend growth, said Jonathan Barnard, Head of Forecasting at Zenith. Google and Facebook alone have accounted for almost two thirds of global adspend growth since 2012, he added.

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