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With just 50 watts, Central Coast Public Radio has attempted to serve Santa Barbara, Calif., with its unique blend of Americana music in morning drive, along with NPR spoken word programming. But, its same-signal status with the main NPR station serving San Diego has been regularly problematic. Now, SLO-focused Central Coast Public Radio is giving up the fight.

In January 2020, Bob Elliot engineered a deal that sent a 6kw Class A FM serving such Mitten State communities as Jonesville and Hillsdale, Mich., to a company headed by Bill Sours. Now, Sours is making a small profit on his investment.

Add a community college in Western New York to the list of colleges that will soon shed its 880-watt Class A facility — to a religious institution expanding again.

In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, Skyview Networks President/CEO Steve Jones speaks with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson about the hot topics for Radio at CES 2023, and how one can snag an invite to that special radio industry reception at this year's conference and expo. LISTEN HERE

The Jamestown, Rhode Island-headquartered company devoted to determine what people are listening to while on the road in a vehicle has expanded its patent portfolio, adding a sixth to its collection. This patent is for a product focused on in-vehicle media content monitoring and report generation.

Kelly is a media measurement leader whose work dates back to Arbitron. His exit from Nielsen Audio is reportedly tied to a larger reduction-in-force effort.

For more than 13 years, he served as SVP/West Coast Sales for Premiere Networks. Prior to that, he was National Advertising Director for the Los Angeles Times Media Group, where he was also General Manager for the L.A. Times’ BrandX offering. Now, this media ad sales pro is taking a post at Key Networks. 

With a delisting notice all but imminent short a reverse stock split, Audacy Corp. shares on Monday slumped to their lowest closing price yet, on heavier-than-usual trading volume. It puts further pressure on President/CEO David Field and CFO Rich Schmaeling to bring a NYSE solution to the company.

Dan Bongino was vaccinated. But, he had deep reservations about his employer's forced vaccination policy, and was very vocal about it. In fact, there was much industry chatter that he would exit Cumulus Media as a result of their vaccination enforcement. While all of that chatter fizzled, it has now surfaced that Bongino isn't planning to stick around Cumulus much longer.

Following an extremely successful first year, the Radio Masters Sales Summit is set to return in 2023 — in an exciting new location. The in-person conference, presented by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink in partnership with The Center for Sales Strategy, returns September 13-14, 2023, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The individual presently serving as General Manager for Salem Media Group's radio properties serving Arkansas' state capital will soon be taking on similar responsibilities for the company's stations in the nation's third-largest market.

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.