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Kristin Cantrell is growing 7 Mountains Media, thanks to a transaction filed late Wednesday with the FCC that will transfer some 46 stations from her father's Forever Media. No money will exchange hands. To meet FCC local ownership rules, a spin-off deal is in place. It involves COO Jim Loftus, and a licensee he independently controls.

A Class D AM serving a small Utah city between St. George and Provo is being spun. Who's buying this 1kw daytime facility with 1 tower that has 13 watts of power after dark, so it may protect a Canadian AM?

Sencore, a video delivery specialist headquartered in South Dakota, is adding to its Commercial TV portfolio by bringing to market a 1RU receiver/decoder with an expanded port selection.

Now with a two-day radio industry experience that some would say is the return of a fully NAB-produced event for AM and FM radio broadcasting companies, NAB New York is quickly growing in importance for audio and video content creation and distribution firms eager to further monetize and grow ROI. Perhaps products on display from Telestream will help to achieve these goals.

It went on the market in August 2020. Now, a buyer has emerged for the three-story Howard Street complex that houses iHeartMedia's offices and studios in New Orleans. The facility is just north of WDSU-TV's longtime home and three blocks from the famed St. Charles Streetcar.

As part of the deal, National Captioning Canada (NCC), the largest live captioning provider in Canada and a subsidiary of Captionmax, was also acquired and has been rebranded as 3Play Media Canada.

A new WARC analysis has found that Generation Z is the most digital generation to date, spending two-thirds (67.7%) of total media time with digital channels, higher than any other age group. These findings are published today by WARC, the international marketing intelligence service.

Four-screen measurement is being enabled for the first time, with viewer consumption data across traditional TV, connected TV, desktop, and mobile devices available in Nielsen Total Ad Ratings. It's thanks to a partnership with a big OTT access platform.

In July, Lourdes Ubieta exited "Radio Mambí" amid fears the incoming owner — Latino Media Network — would dismantle the station's longtime conservative Spanish-language talk programming. These worries stem from a LMN funding source, George Soros, who is known for liberal causes. On Monday, Ubieta will be back on Miami radio, thanks to Audacy.

A California U.S. District Court Judge has denied a second Motion to Dismiss filed by one of the world's biggest quick-service restaurants, a move designed to kill a racial discrimination case against the chain submitted by Byron Allen-led Allen Media Group in May 2021. As such, the case, which appeared to be on shaky ground at the end of 2021, will now proceed to a jury trail. But, that won't be happening for several months.

The "Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2021," derailed on September 8 thanks to an amendment from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), is being retooled and the Senator who introduced the bill, Democrat Amy Klobuchar, believes it will be ready for a Senate Judiciary Committee vote next week.

It's back, and the Democratic Senator from Minnesota that ran for U.S. President in 2020 will likely do her best to move forward with legislation first introduced in March 2021 with bipartisan support that unexpectedly "blew up" on September 8. Another Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which the "Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2021" will be debated and discussed is scheduled for September 14.

A veteran of CBS News and Stations has been named VP and News Director at CBS-affiliated KTVT-11 and independent KTXA-TV (TXA 21) in Dallas-Forth Worth. He reports directly to Raquel Amparo, President and GM of CBS Dallas-Fort Worth.

It is Dexter Goei’s intention to return to Europe with his family. As such, the Board of Directors for cable television service provider Altice USA has appointed a new CEO. He takes the reins on October 3, when Goei becomes Executive Chairman of the Board. And, he's inbound from Comcast.

What was the Spot Radio activity like for the AM and FM stations tracked by iHeartMedia-owned service Media Monitors going in to the Labor Day holiday weekend? Activity was quiet, with respect to much movement from the previous week, although there were two new entrants to the latest report for the week ending Sept. 4, 2022.