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On Thursday and again on Friday, the FCC Commissioner used consecutive speaking appearances to double down on her belief that the agency where she will soon serve as the lone Democrat has gone way too far.

The National Hockey League franchise serving the Tampa-St. Petersburg market will soon be bringing its telecasts to broadcast TV, following the lead of its in-state rivals, the Florida Panthers, and two NHL teams in the Western U.S.

One of the two stations in Nebraska's biggest market that John Hannon will lead is today operated via an LMA agreement between its owner and Sinclair Inc. This will soon change, as Sinclair is moving forward with buying the property outright, creating a duopoly.

In October 2024, she was named SVP of Content and Development for Telemundo Studios. Now, she's adding the role of advisory board member for the New York Festivals Television and Film Awards.

OptiLoad broke ground at the 2024 NAB Show with new design innovations to better detect and prevent transmission system failures in liquid-cooled UHF & VHF TV systems. "Those innovations deliver a convergence of passive RF equipment, electronics and sensing that Dielectric as now adapted for radio and less rigorous UHF environments," Dielectric said.

A Class A FM radio station licensed to cover the U.S. Virgin Islands' territories of St. John and St. Thomas is being sold by Gordon Ackley, a longtime operator of broadcast properties in this English-speaking Caribbean commonwealth under FCC jurisdiction.

For weeks, media brokers and industry observers have been awaiting news on a transaction that many believed would be announced one month ago, as radio business leaders gathered in Las Vegas for the 2025 NAB Show. Now, rumors have become reality: Jeff Warshaw has secured the financing needed to move forward with his Connoisseur Media's acquisition of Alpha Media.

It's a 6kw Class A FM serving an area of Northeast Ohio between Mentor and Ashtabula, and airs a regional Oldies format that in the 4pm hour featured Detroit act 100 Proof (Aged in Soul) and the America track "Daisy Jane."  Soon, this unique Oldies station will be in the hands of a new owner.

Nathan Simington and his new Chief of Staff, Adam Wax, have joined together for an opinion piece for an online news organization in which they emphatically support the FCC's investigations into CBS over alleged "news distortion." At the same time, Wax and Simington want big changes to "reverse compensation."

The two television stations owned by Nexstar Media Group serving Erie, Pa., now have a new VP and General Manager. He arrives at the stations after 7 1/2 years at Sinclair Inc., working in Oklahoma.

The owner of a Boston-area building found to be the home of an unlicensed radio station has received a "Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting" warning them of a potential fine for harboring the unlicensed FM station using 107.5 MHz.

Two months after the FCC opened up a comment period on a trio of proposals that would unwind VHF-to-UHF shifts at stations owned by Gray Media, the FCC has given its blessing to the company's requests. It did so as it received not one comment on the matter, except from Gray itself.

He's formerly the SVP of Ad Sales at the Marquee Sports Network and played a key role in the relaunch of the RSN. Before that he was President of ABC National Television Sales and in the past was a VP for both WLS-7 in Chicago and WABC-7 in New York. Now, this broadcast TV ad sales vet is heading up WPEC-TV.

He's been the Corporate Senior Vice President/Station Operations at Sinclair Inc. since 2007 and has served as "a key leader in Sinclair’s broadcast operations for more than two decades." On June 30, he'll be heading into retirement.

He hosts the morning shift on a Class B1 FM radio station licensed to a city just west of the Dayton metropolitan area, on the Indiana side of the border. Now, this programmer and on-air host is teaming with his wife to acquire not only this property but its radio siblings serving Richmond.