Legacy

A leadership training fellowship for public media station managers is being developed by St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Poynter Institute is developing and administering. It is being funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It’s an executive level program following the success of the Editorial Integrity and Leadership program.

Tuesday was the final day of Washington, D.C.-based programming for Sputnik — with programs produced and made by journalists from stateside Sputnik studios coming to an end. Leased airtime on radio stations in Northern Virginia and in Kansas City is believed to be winding down by the end of the week.

In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.fm, Kerri Black, who oversees two Fiorini Media radio stations in Englewood and Arcadia, Fla., shares how the storm impacted the area south of Siesta Key, where Hurricane Milton made landfall last week. She shares what the stations did to keep the lights on, and what her team did to ensure the safety of staff.

A FM radio station broadcast licensee serving Las Vegas and St. George, Utah, seeks to gain new business through the use of GeoBroadcast Solutions' "ZoneCasting" and "MaxxCasting." To see both technologies in action, a FCC Commissioner aligned with the Democrats last week took a visit to Las Vegas.

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Michael Dagen is awaiting regulatory approval for his purchase of a low-power television station from a group led by President Ana Guel. With the FCC's OK, this gives Dagen control of a property licensed to a small municipality along Interstate 8 just east of Yuma, Ariz.

With much of Central Florida lacking electricity as the sun rose on Thursday, local radio and TV stations were offering a variety of updates from journalists and listeners themselves — offering vital updates on the aftermath of a storm unlike any other the Sunshine State has faced.

Beasley Media Group has offered details regarding the expiration and final results of its exchange offer of its existing notes; its tender offer; its new notes offer; and its consent solicitation established in its exchange offer designed to replace old debt at new debt — giving the radio station owner more time to repay its lenders.

To gain a firsthand account of communications recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which cut a swath through the Florida "Big Bend" area before barreling through eastern Georgia and Western North Carolina, the Chairwoman of the FCC was scheduled to visit both Charlotte and Asheville on Friday.

In an intriguing turn of events, the bankrupt Diamond Sports Group, which operates regional sports networks through a licensing agreement with Bally, has asked a Houston federal bankruptcy court to approve an amended plan that would erase its Major League Baseball agreements as of December 31, 2024.

The Excellence in Economic Analysis Award recognizes Commission staff for outstanding economic analysis conducted in the course of their work at the FCC, while the Excellence in Engineering Award recognizes Commission staff who have made outstanding engineering, scientific, or technical contributions.

With powerful Hurricane Helene nearing Florida's Big Bend and "Forgotten Coast" ahead of bringing strong rain, wind and potential flooding concerns to Tallahassee, Fla.; and Georgia, DirecTV has launched a Severe Weather Channel and four-channel Severe Weather Mix mosaic, with the latter featuring coverage from an array of local broadcast TV stations.

A 35-year veteran of local broadcast television since November 2017 has served as VP/GM of Cox Media Group's CBS affiliate in Jacksonville — along with the FOX affiliate it operates via a shared services agreement.  On December 31, he'll officially retire from the industry.

She has served as Assistant News Director for ABC Owned Stations' WLS-7 in Chicago since 2022. Now, she's getting a promotion to VP of Marketing, a role that puts her in control of local programming, marketing and design.

Wade Davis is no longer the Chief Executive Officer of TelevisaUnivision, the company announced early Thursday, after reports in The New York Times and Reuters distributed Wednesday evening cited unnamed sources close to the matter that a change in leadership was imminent. Who's his successor?