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Letter draws immediate condemnation from FCC commissioners Starks and Gomez

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With the change in leadership at the FCC, Chairman Brendan Carr selected Erin Boone to serve as Acting Media Bureau Chief. Boone had been Chief of Staff to the junior Republican on the Commission, Nate Simington. Who's succeeding Boone in that role?

Curtis Media Group President/COO Trip Savery is welcoming a radio industry veteran who has joined the privately held North Carolina broadcasting company to lead its four FMs in Raleigh-Durham, as well as its digital sales enterprise and vehicular traffic network.

"I am 78 and it is time to smell the roses." With that, Dan Viles is selling his low-power TV station serving New York's Capital Region and the Catskills. Who's the buyer and what is he earning from the sale of the facility licensed to Cobleskill, N.Y.?

The opening and closing are the riskiest parts of any speech or presentation. For public speaking coach and veteran public relations executive Rosemary Ravinal, the "sandwich model" may be the best method for getting the "big idea" across successfully.

The new head of the Federal Communications Communications is spending the last day of January in Western North Carolina, as his first official trip as the agency's leader takes him to several of the hardest-hit communities recovering from Hurricane Helene, which lashed the region exactly four months ago.

Educational Media Foundation (EMF), the parent organization of omnipresent noncommercial Christian radio networks K-LOVE and Air1, has a new General Counsel for the Ministry.

Could Comcast Corp.'s Spectrum merge with Comcast's Xfinity MVPD offering? While that's a question for regulators in the second Trump Administration, one Wall Street watchdog wonders if it is time for a tie-up, given the Comcast Corp. fourth quarter results released on Thursday.

Add PQ Media to the group of global advertising data analysis firms that has crunched the numbers, reviewed key trends, and has concluded that 2025 will be softer than 2024. As PQ Media sees it, recessionary fears persist. Then, there is the uncertainty tied to a second Trump Administration as it pertains to potential tariffs and other international trade matters.

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