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Radio-focused mobile strategy and development firm jācapps, born by longtime Detroit-based broadcasting consultant Fred Jacobs, says it is moving "to make sure AM stations can easily get their streams on smartphones, tablets, and into cars." Only, it is not saying that direct accessibility of kHz-based signals in a vehicle is necessary.

When it comes to school supplies, one office-focused retailer is seeking to win over teachers who may already be thinking about summer school needs and those for the next academic year. To win these consumers over, along with others that would prefer to shop with the use of an app, the marketing team selected Spot Radio.

It's one of five stations associated with Southern Communications, and that's within West Virginia Broadcasting Inc.  For some reason, it is delinquent in paying its full regulatory fees to the FCC, and that tardiness dates back a decade. Now, the licensee must pay them all, or risk losing the Class B Country station serving Beckley, W. Va., and most of Charleston.

While Audacy Inc. is no longer trading on the NYSE, following the exchange's decision to suspend the company's stock for an "abnormally low" price, that doesn't mean the buying and selling of the audio content creation and distribution company's shares has ceased. Introducing "AUDA," trading as an Over-the-Counter stock.

The afternoon co-anchor at the top-billing radio station in the U.S. has shared a goodbye letter to colleagues and friends. Hillary Howard will be leaving Hubbard Broadcasting's WTOP News in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 2. And, she says it wasn't her decision.

One month after a tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., local operator South Texas Radio took its properties dark due to severe financial troubles. In August 2022, Mexico-based Francisco Javier Navarro struck a deal to acquire all of the licensee's stations. Now, Navarro is spinning the stations.

The introduction in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday of the AM for Every Vehicle Act was heralded by two vote-makers at the FCC and by the head of the NAB, which was joined by the National Association of Farm Broadcasters in endorsing the bill.

It's a Class D AM radio station with a mere 28 watts after dark with an FM translator helping it serve Wichita, Kansas, with a mix of Christian Talk and Teaching and Adult Standard programming. The facility is owned by a former reporter for KAKE-10 who today is suffering not from a lack of access to his AM radio station, but from another threat that has impact his property: the theft of copper wire.

Hal Pittman plays a highly important role for the United States Armed Forces. How so? He’s the Director of Defense Media Activity, and helps bring radio and television programming to Americans oversees in military and consular roles. Simply put, without you, AFN would be at a big loss. This Mr. Pittman dials in to the latest InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM to share more with RBR+TVBR's audience about how our Armed Forces relies on commercial radio and TV. LISTEN HERE

Storied New Orleans radio station WWOZ is still looking for a new place to call home after the Jazz & Heritage Foundation board decided against purchasing a building on St. Charles Avenue to house their studios. This decision keeps WWOZ in need of a new headquarters by the fall as it faces a deadline to vacate its current French Market studio.

A process issued by the court directing the U.S. Marshal to enforce and satisfy a judgment for payment of money has been issued by federal District Court Judge Jesus Bernal, putting embattled former radio station licensee Ed Stolz on alert that he must pay upward of $2 million to satisfy funds owned to Bernal's court-appointed trustee — Larry Patrick.

On December 21, 2022, Midwest Communications President/CEO Duey E. ‘Duke‘ Wright Jr. passed away at the age of 83. Now, his legacy will live on thanks to an endowment from his estate to the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association that will see the renaming of its media technology institute.

On Wednesday, "local first" digital solutions and broadcast media company Townsquare Media held its 2023 annual shareholder meeting. Three proposals were voted on at the meeting, and the results, to little surprise, were overwhelmingly in favor of what the company's executive team led by CEO Bill Wilson recommended.

He has been associated with Beasley Media Group Classic Rock sibling WMGK-FM in Philadelphia since summer 2002. Before that, he was in afternoons at the former WYSP and, for many years, a "Morning Zoo" host at WMMR. Now, John DeBella, is retiring.

As 2022 came to a close, Bill Sours signed off on an agreement that would spin a 6kw Class A FM serving such Mitten State communities as Jonesville and Hillsdale, due southeast of Battle Creek, to the second-largest licensee of FM radio stations in the U.S. That deal has now closed. As such, “BUZZ 102.5” has flown away.