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A contributor to TheStreet, Stockhouse and Seeking Alpha currently part of a team that oversees an outside investment manager managing almost $30 billion has authored a report that puts a very big question in the face of Audacy Corp.'s leadership team.

He's known across Western New York as the owner of one of the most successful all-music AM radio stations in the world. In August, he expanded his radio holdings by agreeing to acquire an FM radio station in the city that's his second home. Now, Buddy Shula has closed on the property. A format change is already in the works.

In May 2006, she joined Cumulus Media’s Atlanta station group, eventually rising to VP of Adult Contemporary Programming and its Stratus Music operation. She exited Cumulus in April 2022, ending a 16-year run in the market ... or so we thought. Emily Boldon is heading back to Atlanta, this time to take a role at the company she joined just nine weeks ago.

On Tuesday, November 8, many will be glued to their television sets as election returns come in for a host of big races, including that for Florida's governor and a key U.S. Senate seat presently held by Marco Rubio. While those results may not come until well after 8am Eastern the following day, one set of results are certain to arrive — those for Townsquare Media's third quarter of 2022.

Look what OTT platform believes connecting with radio listeners is a smart way to raise the audience level for its slow-growth video-on-demand hub. It's none other than that of NBCUniversal.

KERA, the PBS and NPR source for consumers in North Texas, is in the process of acquiring the Denton-Record Chronicle. Plans are in the works to complete the acquisition in 2023. The move is similar to one in Chicago involving the Chicago Sun-Times and the local NPR member station.

The WideOrbit certified integration between vCreative's vPPO platform and the Electronic Material Instructions module for WO Traffic, WideOrbit's flagship ad sales and commercial operations platform, is designed to enable the end-to-end exchange of copy instructions.

It owns and operates 18 radio stations in the markets of Fort Wayne; Valparaiso; Las Cruces, N. Mexico; and Tallahassee, Fla. Now, the company led by CEO Ron Stone is being acquired by an entity controlled by shareholders that were investors in Adams Radio Group when the company was initially formed. The broker: Kalil & Co.

In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, Solmart Media co-owner Tomás Martínez, who cut his teeth in Miami media and is no stranger to hurricanes, shares how serving listeners to his two Spanish-language radio stations in Southwest Florida with unique content on-air and online came together in a time of emergency. LISTEN HERE

Emergency Alert System rules are about to become more informative and easier to understand by the public, particularly among people with disabilities. That's thanks to an update of the Commission's EAS rules approved on Thursday at the FCC's September Open Meeting.

While the NAB has been critical of the merits of a proposed rulemaking that would pave the way for ZoneCasting from GeoBroadcast Services, the association last week filed an ex parte brief that disparaged GBS founder and CEO Chris Devine. GBS has now offered a rebuttal to the Commission.

On Monday, the individual authorities believed to have carried out a series of horrific acts that claimed the life of WWJ-AM in Detroit overnight anchor Jim Matthews and sought to harm his live-in girlfriend and their two children was arraigned in a Macomb County, Mich., district court. The suspect is being held without bond.

Xperi Holding Corporation, which has spun off its Intellectual Property Licensing business, will see executives from the new Xperi Inc. ring the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Likewise, leaders for the spin-off company will ring the closing bell at the end of the day's trading up in Times Square, at Nasdaq.

For the most part, Salem Media Group is thought of for its audio content, and for its publishing division responsible for the release of such works as Dinesh D'Souza's "2000 Mules," which sees to prove 2020 U.S. presidential election irregularities. Now, the company seeks to gain notice for a political cartoonist that is being added to the payroll.

For years, the refrain, "Sell on Rosh Hashanah, Buy on Yom Kippur," has persisted as a popular Wall Street superstition. Or, is it? With the Jewish New Year ready to start on Sunday at sundown, investors continued to sell off their shares across the board on Friday. In the media sector, only one company was in the green.