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A Class B 50kw AM with a tower array adjacent to Dodgers Stadium is being sold by Arthur Liu's Multicultural Radio Broadcasting. The buyer is a talk host who in August was ordered to pay PBS $2.6 million for violating a morals clause in multiple sexual harassment cases. Earlier in his career, he was fired by BET, where he became a household name.

Introducing the Multicultural News Network (MNN), designed to be “a non-partisan, national news network that will bring an unbiased national forum for the voices of America’s underserved multicultural communities.” MNN will launch in the second half of 2021. And, it doesn’t only have Black consumers in mind.

With little fanfare in what by some accounts was the swiftest FCC open meeting held in a long time, the Commission on Wednesday moved forward with a revision of its rules pertaining to program carriage complaint resolutions.

Bill Adee is the Principal and COO of VSiN. It's grown quickly since the spring of 2017, when Adee joined the Musbergers to launch VSiN. He shares the latest on how things continue to roll -- even through the COVID-19 pandemic -- in this freshly produced InFOCUS Podcast, presented by DOT.FM. LISTEN HERE

A 70-year old owner of a radio station serving a rural portion of Western Pennsylvania to the southeast of Pittsburgh on Monday was placed on a three-year "restricted probation" for a series of criminal sexual acts at a sentencing hearing that could save him from a FCC license revocation hearing.

The FCC is planning to increase application fees and add new fee categories for broadcasters. And, the NAB says, that's not cool. That's why it has filed comments with the Commission arguing that broadcasters already fork over to Washington a disproportionately large share of the agency’s costs, relative to the benefits received.

The NAB brief, filed with the Supreme Court on Monday night, largely sides with the Republican majority of the Commission in its view that the Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals "overstepped authority" in striking FCC’s "modernization" of its local ownership rules.

Forecast takes it a step beyond numbers and inside sources, including insights and analyses from outside experts to deliver a broader, more objective big picture view. Here's what we'll be talking about and whose sharing their perspectives this year at Forecast LIVE!

Serving Western Kentucky's Purchase region, along with a portion of Southern Illinois and Southeastern Missouri, are a pair of UHF digital stations providing MyNetworkTV and FOX programming to the market, respectively. Until today, they've been licensed to Sinclair. With regulatory approval, that will soon change -- to Soo Kim's gain.

If you’ve always wanted to attend the 18th annual Forecast conference, presented virtually this year as Forecast LIVE, but were unable due to the travel or expense, this is your opportunity. The event will play out over two sessions, Tuesday, December 8, and Wednesday, December 9. It may never happen again – don’t be sorry and miss it!

As NEXTGEN TV deployments unfold, the NAB believes broadcasters have discovered an area "where straightforward clarification of the Commission’s current rules would help broadcasters preserve existing service to viewers and a gap in the Commission’s 2017 rules that must be addressed."

As some in the radio industry focus on the third reduction in force it has engaged in this year, investors are playing a different tune when it comes to their sentiments on iHeartMedia and its radio station operations. The company's shares are on a growth spurt, and is trading consistently at a level last seen in early June.

Here's something that's clearly an anomaly in COVID-19 times: A media company focused on radio broadcasting swung to net income from a net loss in the third quarter of 2020. Believe it or not, that's exactly what transpired for the purveyor of Christian-themed and conservative Talk radio stations commonly known as Salem Media Group.

Add the Washington, D.C.-based multimedia company superserving Black consumers to the list of media entities that are promoting the fact that, on a month-by-month basis, the COVID-19 fiscal recovery is real, and meaningful. But, how did Urban One perform on a year-over-year basis in Q3? How did its cable TV networks perform against its radio divisions?

In November 2019, Matt Britton’s provocative insights about Gen Z’s audio consumption, their impact, and that of technology on radio today and tomorrow scored a home run with Forecast attendees. If you were there, you heard his impressive remarks. If not, here’s your chance. Britton is coming to the virtual Forecast 2021 LIVE event with a brand-new presentation.