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Gray Television just selected her to succeed the retiring Frank Brady, an individual at the helm of an NBC affiliate in West Virginia. She, like Brady, has been at the station for 15 years. What does the longevity of these tenures say about life at a small-market Big Four affiliate? Listen to this InFOCUS Podcast presented by dot.FM, and you'll get the answer ... and more! LISTEN HERE

How did the "digital first" owner of 322 radio stations located in markets outside the top 50 perform? Townsquare Media's adjusted EBITDA in Q2 was the highest seen in company history. That's just one of the positives that helped the company sail past its own estimates and those of Zacks Equity Research.

Allen Media Group in late April emerged as the winning bidder for 10 stations being spun off by Gray Television in order for that company to complete its $950 million merger with Quincy Media, Inc. On Monday, AMG closed on its deal.

After taking a close look at domestic digital advertising growth, noted media analyst Michael Nathanson uses the word "only" to describe the acceleration in dollars for the GAFAN group.  What does this mean for broadcast media companies set to release their Q2 earnings reports, if Facebook, Alphabet, Twitter and Snap were disappointments to Wall Street observers like him?

With little fanfare, two FM radio stations serving the Miami Valley officially ended their respective formats, with a change transpiring just past 12:01am Monday.  The stations, which had been operated by iHeartMedia as part of its Dayton cluster, are now licensed to a different operator. They weren't sold, however. The FM pair were given away as a donation.

The nation's leading multimedia company superserving African American consumers has taken an important step toward bringing the second casino gaming resort it is connected with to fruition. It involves a multimillion-dollar upfront payment to the City of Richmond.

On Feb. 11, 2018, Ray Moran, the founder of Ramar Communications, passed away. The Lubbock, Tex., TV stations it owned were sold in October 2020. Now, an Albuquerque spin has been agreed upon by the children of Mr. Moran. The broker: Kalil & Co.

In just four years, Bill Christian and Mike Reed launched, from scratch, a group of television stations serving Lafayette, Ind. They'd go on to acquire other TV stations, building up operations in Jonesboro, Ark., and the Tri-Cities of Tennessee.  Now, Christian and Reed are selling nearly all of their TV stations and all of their radio stations. Kalil & Co. is the broker.

The FCC has moved forward with a Forfeiture Order that imposes a $512,228 per-station penalty against 17 stations that enjoy shared services agreements with Sinclair Broadcast Group, while reducing a penalty assessed to one licensee but not eliminating it.

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the television deal market delivered $4.16 billion deal volume in the first half of 2021. However, that volume would have been a mere $35 million had it not been for one company: Gray Television.

Under his leadership, Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS)'s three radio stations in its home market of Miami-Fort Lauderdale have emerged as some of the nation's top Hispanic media properties. Now, he's being promoted to an executive VP role.

Pew Research Center on Tuesday released statistics that paint the present-day portrait of the local TV newsroom staff. What's the diversity among those employed by TV news departments across the U.S.? We have a first look.

For the 97 news outlets whose primary domain, its website, averaged at least 10 million unique visitors per month, traffic rose 11% in the fourth quarter of 2020. That's according to a fresh Pew Research Center analysis of the state of the U.S. news media.

Where does HD Radio stand today? Jeff Jury, the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Connected Car division of Xperi, offers his thoughts in a fresh InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, hosted by RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson.  LISTEN HERE

Here's what to expect with respect to when each earnings call and Q2 2021 report release occurs — along with a time change for Gray Television's earnings call and a just-released time and date for Salem Media Group's Q2 '21 call.