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It's been a difficult week for long-term investors, with big dips on Wall Street seen on Thursday and through mid-afternoon Friday. Among the media companies getting battered by the market downturn is the nation's largest owner of broadcast radio stations.

The FCC has upheld a $20,000 fine levied against a Talk station serving Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz for operating “at a variance from its authorized parameters.” The station has evidently been doing so for more than a quarter century. What does this mean for KSCO?

From December 2016 through April 2020, independently owned Adult Alternative "The Point" operated an AM radio station with an FM translator serving Middlebury, Vt. Dark since then, these facilities will soon come back to life. The resurrection will be led by a religious broadcast ministry that is buying them.

Expansion to Kaua'i, "the Garden Isle," came to Pacific Media Group in October 2018 with the acquisition of three FMs and a Country-formatted AM with an FM translator. Now, PMG is adding a fourth FM to its Kaua'i operations.

A native New Yorker has been chosen by Audacy Corp. to fill two big shares of shoes, as he will be succeeding both Jim Ryan and the retiring Scott Shannon come Monday at the company's WCBS-FM. It marks a return to New York City from Houston, where he's been a Country programming leader.

When it comes to talk radio personalities, there's perhaps no bigger singular host in the Pacific Northwest today than Lars Larson. That said, Larson in 2023 will be celebrating 20 years of national syndication. That relationship has just been extended, thanks to a new multi-year agreement.

Users of the TuneIn live streaming audio platform won't be losing their access to business news and financial reporting courtesy of the service founded by a former New York Mayor and former Democratic presidential candidate.

From mirrorless cameras from Canon to noise-canceling true wireless headphones, B&H has served New York Tri-State Area customers for nearly 50 years. Now, it has gotten its hand slapped by FCC for selling something it shouldn't have — FM transmitters either using unauthorized frequencies or simply lacking Commission certification.

Since the second half of 2018, Beasley Media Group stock has been largely on the decline. Now, the company led by Caroline Beasley has a new frustration on its hands: the company's stock value has not closed above $1 in one week, putting BBGI at its lowest value since the height of the "Great Recession."

In a fictional world, "WKRP In Cincinnati" was a 5,000-watt AM that had a cast of characters, but was hardly dominant. In the real Cincinnati, Jerry Thomas dominated the ratings — not at WKRP but at WKRC-AM 550. Now, many across the Ohio market are remembering Thomas, who retired in 2006. The longtime morning show host died Thursday morning (12/9).

Orlando is again towering over WestShore Plaza in Tampa, as the Beasley Broadcast Group morning star at its WLLD "WiLD 94.1" is eating, sleeping — and doing everything he else he needs to do — from atop a toy tower that's also serving as his on-air remote studio across eight days of fundraising.

There's perhaps nothing more unique than the Burning Man Project, and the annual event it stages in the Black Rock Desert of Northwest Nevada.  Now, Burning Man is getting its own radio station.

From the early 1980s through 2014, it was a Westchester County, N.Y.-focused Adult Contemporary FM. Since then, it had a tenure as an FM targeting African-American listeners in key New York DMA ZIP codes and today is a simulcast partner of an all-digital AM Talker. Soon, this FM will convert to noncommercial status and shift to Christian Talk & Teaching programming.

The CRTC, Canada's equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission, has amended its Canadian content rules. It also approved a small thawing of local ownership restrictions, something the NAB wants the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to engage in.

As word surfaced that Audacy Corp. conducted a mandatory all-staff meeting at 3pm Eastern, the company's beleaguered stock further withered on the NYSE, falling nearly 7% in trading on Wednesday. This put Audacy shares at roughly $0.27 per share. That Town Hall, as it turns out, was just a regular affair.