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For weeks, the rise of Brendan Carr to FCC Chairman — should President Trump return to the White House — has been discussed as a foregone conclusion. On Sunday evening, President-Elect Trump turned the rumors into reality.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, conservative talk programs been heard on a 5kw AM radio station with a transmitter in the Pier 94 wetlands. Come Monday, this longtime Talker and one-time flanker to a News/Talk station at 810 kHz is moving to that bigger frequency, displacing the sports wagering programming that supplanted what was before that KGO.

WorldDAB president says "securing radio's digital future is critical and fundamental for listeners, for broadcasters and for society"

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A belated License to Cover application filed by the owner of a low-power television station serving Key West, Fla., has yielded a proposed fine that's bigger than similar occurrences. Why? Their extreme tardiness was singled out by the head of the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division.

New York Public Radio and NAB will observe co-channel interference and MA3 performance in an urban setting

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A Class A FM serving the upper half of New York's Capital District is changing hands, with Briton Ricki Lee signing off on a deal that will put the facility in the control of Todd Nixon, pending regulatory approval.

Aaron Ishmael and Karl Lieber are jumping for joy: They've just made a deal to acquire an AM with an all-important FM translator serving an area of Northeastern Colorado as "Jump 104.5." The deal ensures Ishmael stays in the market, as the station he previously leased was sold in July to a Hispanic media operation.

The Walt Disney Company's Entertainment segment saw its fiscal Q4 revenue grow by a healthy 14% year-over-year. However, a closer look at the results indicates the growth was largely due to Disney+ and OTT platforms; and content sales and licensing dollars. For the linear networks, challenges abound.

The E.W. Scripps Co. is ready to shift its Scripps News operation to an all-streaming approach. This will see a new lineup starting Monday — one the publicly traded company believes "will give viewers crucial daily information, providing live in-depth storytelling on the biggest events across the country" with a team one-quarter the size.