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From the autumn of 2010 through early 2017,  a company led by Charlie Banta and Sandra Miller owned a San Francisco Bay Area AM that had once been one of the biggest regional Mexican players in the region. It was sold for $6 million. Now, the company that made that deal is spinning the AM for less than half of that price. For Punjabi American Media, it further grows its radio network in the Golden State.

In San Antonio and across Hill Country, Texas Public Radio is the main source for NPR programming and non-commercial informational programming that is non-secular in nature. Now, it is gaining attention for successfully convincing the head of the Media Bureau's Audio Division, Al Shuldiner, to nix the tentative selectee for MX Group 196 in the FCC's noncommercial FM November 2021 filing window.

Want to hit the slopes but aren't sure of what the current conditions are? You're in luck, thanks to an expanded partnership between The Weather Channel and Skyview Networks.

He spent more than three decades at Adult Alternative WXRT-FM 93.1 in Chicago until stepping aside last summer, a battle with cancer preventing him from continuing on the air. On Sunday, Lin Brehmer passed away at the age of 68, the Audacy Corp. station said in a statement.

Hey, broadcast radio — looking for ways to extend your reach? Why not a built-in app on a smart television? SiriusXM has just done that, thanks to a partnership with a popular TV set brand.

He's been Program Director for WCFB "Star 94.5" Orlando and for two FM translators superserving African American consumers in Jacksonville — "Hot 99.5" and "Power 106.1." Now, this veteran radio programming executive has been named Director of Urban Content for the stations' parent, Cox Media Group (CMG).

If you're a listener of talk program hosted by Steven K. Bannon, Rob Carson, Mark Levin and Rita Cosby and enjoy the Friday afternoon offering The Vaxx Report and you reside in metropolitan Atlanta, you'll be pleased to know that the party that has been operating the expanded-band AM station these shows air on has agreed to convert his Time Brokerage Agreement into an outright purchase.

It's a Class B AM that signed on in 1949 as KCUL-AM and since 1967 has had 11 subsequent call letters and a variety of formats including "Personal Achievement Radio" in the late 1990s, and Spanish-language programming. In 2006, it became a part of the predecessor company of Estrella Media, after LBI Media acquired it from Entravision. Now, Estrella has struck a deal to sell the AM station.

In August 2019, Greg Janoff was welcomed by United Stations Radio Networks as its new Chief Revenue Officer. As of today, Janoff, whose past roles include those of VP/GM for WINS-AM in New York, will serve in a consulting role at USRN. A new CRO is already in-house at the company co-founded by the late Dick Clark and Chairman/CEO Nick Verbitsky.

The Chief Executive Officer of Veritonic, a company that’s become known for its marketing intelligence tools wrapped around digital audio marketing, has returned to the InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, to discuss "ASMR." Learn why that's something very important for audio creative by listening now!  LISTEN HERE

He's been on the radio in Kansas City for 33 years. Later this year, he'll hang up his headphones for the last time, saying goodbye to his morning show listeners at Cumulus Media's KCMO-FM. A nationwide search for his successor is already underway.

Salem Media Group has promoted from within by naming a VP of its events and marketing arm. It's an individual who joined Salem 21 years ago as Promotions Director of its Windy City cluster.

With a significant presence just up the road in Philadelphia, Beasley Media Group also has a heritage Adult Contemporary FM in Wilmington, Del., in its Delaware Valley stable. Now, this property is welcoming a new Station Manager. And, he's inbound from Townsquare Media's radio properties on the Jersey Shore.

The division of the Radio Advertising Bureau known as the National Radio Talent System (NRTS) has lured an industry veteran most recently with New South Radio in Mississippi to serve as its General Manager.

In the northwest corner of Iowa, on the banks of the Little Sioux River, is a small city that offers a variety of choices for FM radio listeners. They presently include a trio of noncommercial Christian-themed choices. Should Spencer, Iowa, get a fourth broadcast home for religious programming? The FCC just said yes.