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High Plains Radio Network, the entity led by Monte Spearman, in early March 2020 agreed to sell two AMs, two FMs and a FM translator in Arkansas to Broadcast Industry Group, led by Charles Jayson Brentlinger. That deal did not close. In July 2023, a reengineered deal was struck. That transaction also failed. Now, a new buyer has emerged.

Shareholders of Saga Communications — the lone radio industry "pure-play" with a publicly traded stock — have been rewarded with a juicy dividend in quarter after quarter. The company today led by Chris Forgy has just approved another stockholder bonus.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which conservative Republicans and the Trump Administration seeks to defund, has awarded a $1 million grant to a public media journalism collaboration covering agricultural and rural issues.

In a bit of a throwback to the day when the audio for analog Channel 6 could be heard on 87.7 MHz, a FOX Television Station is bringing its audio to a HD multicast signal of an Atlanta FM. This time, that audio feed can be found on the right end of the dial.

President Trump’s push to expand the Federal Communications Commission's authority over broadcast journalism "risks First Amendment conflicts and could backfire under future administrations."  That's the viewpoint of the nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

The six audio brands serving the city on the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers has a new leader, and it is a woman who has been associated with the radio stations owned by the nation's No. 1 owner of AMs and FMs since the early 2000s.

New rules create confusion for broadcasters

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Gomez slams “news distortion” effort as fishing expedition, criticizes disclosure

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The same day it passed through the Senate Commerce Committee, the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" has been reintroduced in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Gus Bilirakis and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr.

The Commission will explore "loud emergency alerts" — a life-saving tool — at its upcoming February Open Meeting while also considering a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would determine whether the FCC needs "additional actions" to make sure exceedingly loud TV commercials are stopped.