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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.

Urban One on April 7 shared that, in connection with the preparation of its financial statements for 2022, company management, in consultation with its independent registered public accounting firm, re-evaluated is accounting for the valuation of its investment interest in MGM National Harbor. After further review, an adjustment to Urban One financial statements as of January 1, 2021 are needed.

In Q1, the company formerly known as Entercom reported mixed results: the audio content creation and distribution company's revenue surpassed analysts' forecasts, but its earnings per share loss was wider than what they predicted by 2 cents. That led one analyst to ask the CEO and CFO of Audacy some tough questions on its quarterly earnings call.

For the second quarter of 2023, the company is projecting total revenue to decline between 5% and 7% year-over-year. That's the downbeat forecast from Salem Media Group, which swung to a net loss in Q1 2022 and missed analysts' EPS estimates.

He operates two Albuquerque-area radio stations through an agreement with their owner, Vanguard Media. Now, he's seeking a similar arrangement with the latest court-appointed trustee to assume control of the radio stations formerly licensed to Ed Stolz and his Royce International Broadcasting.

He was a part of the WKIM/Memphis morning show until he couldn't do so anymore. Why? He wasn't vaccinated against COVID-19, a company policy. Now this former wake-up show member is suing Cumulus Media, saying it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.