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Following the retirement of Jeff Genthner, Steve Simpson will assume oversight of the two FanDuel Sports Network regions and spearhead all team partnerships across the region. FanDuel Sports Network is the former Bally Sports RSN, owned by a subsidiary of Sinclair Inc.

Whether it’s a colleague who constantly interjects or a client who disregards your input, handling interruptions with professionalism and poise is essential. To do that you need some tools in your speaker toolbox. Public speaking coach Rosemary Ravinal obliges in this column.

He has experience at some of the world's biggest music conglomerates, including BMG, Bertelsmann, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group. Introducing the new Chief Commercial Officer at PURE Jingles.

A&D Incorporated is the licensee name representing Amy and Doug Driesel, the latter of whom has used the name "Doug DeForest" professionally. They've just struck a deal to acquire a pair of radio stations in the Show-Me State from Fred Dockins.

Travel between Lewiston and Eastern Idaho, and you'll be able to tune to Salt & Light Catholic Radio in four distinct geographical areas. Now, it is ensuring that its FM broadcast facility in North Central Idaho won't lose its programming in the coming years.

As RBR+TVBR reported on February 20, a Boise, Idaho-based radio broadcasting company serving Boise and Twin Falls is venturing into a neighboring state. Terms of the "membership interest purchase" between Iliad Media Group Holdings and the parties behind The Montana Radio Company, the group Iliad is acquiring, are now known.

The Supreme Court for New York State on Thursday set big monetary penalties against the largest broadcast TV ownership group in the U.S., asking it to repay DirecTV for fees associated with what is today an unaffiliated Washington, D.C.-focused facility branded as “DC News Now.” Nexstar will continue the battle.

A key Democratic U.S. Senator has written to the Acting Assistant Attorney General within the Department of Justice's antitrust division, urging Omeed Assefi to "closely scrutinize" the proposed acquisition of Fubo by The Walt Disney Company.

Cheryl McHenry has won acclaim and attracted generations of viewers to Cox Media Group's WHIO-7 in Dayton. In three months, the veteran news anchor at the CBS affiliate — one of the nation's most dominant — will be saying goodbye to viewers across Ohio's Miami Valley.

It has a 110,000-watt signal atop San Bruno Mountain, allowing this station to cover nearly all of the San Francisco DMA. That said, the Bay Area is notorious for its hills and valleys, which can make FM reception particularly troublesome. KQED-FM is now acting to resolve that problem in the East Bay.