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The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation has unveiled this year's winners of the 50th Annual Gracie Awards, celebrating five decades of amplifying women’s voices, stories, and achievements in media. The winners will be honored at the Gracie Awards Gala on May 20 at the Beverly Wilshire, in Beverly Hills, Calif., to be hosted by podcaster Fortune Feimster.

After 43 years of service, Morgan Murphy Media's President and Chief Executive Officer will soon retire from her day-to-day leadership position. Succeeding her is a junior member of the Burns family, which keeps its leadership of the company since 1890 moving ahead into the future.

She's been a longtime financial leader who has regularly appeared on RBR+TVBR's Broadcast Best Finance Leaders annual ranked list and rose to EVP/CFO from Sr. VP/CFO in February 2020. Now, this Chief Financial Officer has revealed that she will soon retire — once her successor is hired and fully integrated into Sinclair Inc.

Does your broadcasting company continue to engage in diversity, equity and inclusion programs that are designed to broaden the multicultural roster of employees? Be warned: If you plan on seeking the FCC's okay for any regulatory matter, you're now under the strict scrutiny of the Carr Commission.

That's a question that Zacks Equity Research asks, and it's completed its analysis of a broadcast television station ownership group poised to differentiate itself from its peers through the launch of a massive production studio in the Atlanta area.

On New Year's Day 1989, the Fox, NBC and CBS affiliations all shifted in Miami, with the longtime ABC affiliate serving South Florida, the Florida Keys and the Bahamas unaffected. Now, after 69 years, WPLG-10 will be parting ways with the network. Where it is heading is even more shocking.

The arrival of the results from Beasley Media Group turns out to be a good one for the company led by CEO Caroline Beasley. That's not to say challenges seen by the publicly traded company have totally evaporated.

FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya is howling that he and his Democratic colleague, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, have been unlawfully dismissed from their jobs by the president. Could the FCC be next for Trump, even with the upcoming resignation of the senior Democrat at the Commission?

As the 11am Eastern hour began, the senior Democratic Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission revealed on social media platform X that he had just informed President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he intends to resign "later this spring."

Less free trade. Fewer foreign workers. "An increased reliance on the idiosyncratic preferences of the president rather than the more predictable institutionally-driven policy-making processes businesses have historically relied upon in the United States." This led Brian Wieser to reduce his ad growth expectations.

Audacy Inc. has given Kelli Turner permanent executive leadership stripes as a series of other corporate-level moves has transpired at the company with majority ownership today held by Soros Fund Management. Many high-profile people have exited, while Chris Oliviero and Bob Philips earn promotions.

Digital revenue is up, but so are expenses, as Townsquare Media beat estimates for both Q4 revenue and its earnings per share during the final three months of 2024. The Q1 2025 forecast, however, projects revenue to be slightly lower than the forecasts of the analysts who cover the company.

The owner of conservative and Christian-themed spoken word radio stations and a fledgling FAST channel devoted to news and insight has submitted its FY 2024 financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It's here! The Radio + Television Business Report's InFOCUS Video Podcast features an interview between Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson and Johnny Green Jr., the President and Regional General Manager for CBS overseeing both Boston and New York. Click here to learn more about how you can view the conversation now.

The E.W. Scripps Co. President/CEO Adam Symson opened his company's Q4 2024 earnings report with a strong call of support for the Chairman of the FCC, pleading the regulatory agency to loosen local ownership restrictions. He also told an analyst that Scripps will consider swaps or sales, should deregulation come.