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A Class B FM serving listeners across Harrisburg, York, Lancaster and much of Reading, Pa., as Top 40 "Hot 106.7" will soon be in a little bit of a meltdown. That's because the Hershey, Pa.-licensed facility and a Class A Sports Talk FM sibling north of Pittsburgh are being sold by Cumulus Media to a broadcast ministry.

The Louisville Bats have strived to solve the challenge of up to 20 second broadcast call delays after fans began expressing frustration over radio airings of game calls while in the stadium. The fix saw the minor league baseball club turn to a Humboldt County, Calif.-headquartered audio technology company.

John Fuller has successfully closed on his company's acquisition of an AM/FM combo and an FM translator licensed to New Bedford, Mass., that largely serves the Providence, R.I., market to the immediate west. The seller is Hall Communications.

David Hoffman and his HF Companies have suddenly captured the eyes and ears of the broadcast media world, as it has struck a historic deal with Audacy Inc. that gives Hoffman ownership of six audio brands in the Gateway City. He is also bringing back the cluster's former leader to run the stations for him.

A Class A FM serving Bracken and Mason Counties in Kentucky is heading into the hands of a husband and wife who are poised to take on 50/50 ownership in the "hot Country" property.

Four years after it first came to fruition, Black Public Radio Network has formally launched, creating a platform comprised of 15 radio stations led by the GM of KTSU-FM in Houston.

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) has released of a new series of pre‑produced radio and television spots as part of its “Before It Was History, It Was Broadcast” initiative supporting America’s 250th Anniversary. The new :30 spots feature archival audio and visuals.

An expanded relationship with Amazon Ads has been inked by the leading audio content creation and distribution company in the U.S., serving as a local reseller of its audio and video inventory. This builds a bigger bridge between iHeartMedia and a "Big Tech" company broadcasters and the NAB are fighting on Capitol Hill.

The RAB, Commercial Radio & Audio Australia, Radiocentre UK, and Radiocentre Ireland jointly commissioned and presented research under a unified global case for audio’s role in the media mix at the Cannes Lions festival, which concludes on Friday in the South of France.

She may be reluctant to talk to the press about the flurry of radio station deals she's signed off on, but Christina Biegun has emerged as one of South Florida's biggest discussion topics in recent months.  Why? Her Little Dog Media Group has been scrappy in scooping up AM radio stations with FM translators. Now, she's struck again.

The five audio brands serving Idaho's largest metropolitan area have a new VP/Market Manager overseeing the stations, and he's inbound from a small market in Arizona to the southeast of Tucson where Townsquare Media has a presence. It's an individual who is a former VP of Cherry Creek Media, which Townsquare acquired.

Press Communications has successfully convinced the FCC that a tiny FM translator located in The Bronx is still an interference threat to its successful Country station serving Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, in New Jersey. That results in a need for Family Stations to retool the mini-FM, which uses a frequency once home to WVIP-FM.

He leads Cumulus Media's radio stations in Oklahoma City, home to five audio brands, and has been the VP/Market Manager in the home of the Thunder since 2015. Now, he's adding additional responsibilities in a city that's home to the Air Force Academy. 

In August 2023, Chuck Marsh agreed to purchase a group of stations from Three Rivers Media, with a Promissory Note put in place along with a payment schedule. The seller sued Marsh over nonpayment; Marsh countersued. A settlement has been reached, and it negates the deal after nearly three years.

As the organizers of the Texas Association of Broadcasters' "TAB Show" see it, this year's affair is "the most radio-forward in recent memory." Over two days, more than 25 sessions, upward of 100 exhibit-floor vendors and close to 1,200 broadcasters, engineers, sellers and leaders will gather for a "mini-NAB Show."