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An integrated commercial sales team that will represent the linear and digital radio and television assets of its own and partner companies has just been launched by Estrella Media. But, Chief Revenue and Local Media Officer Steve Mandala is quick to say it isn't an in-house rep firm.

The nation's No. 1 owner of AM and FM radio stations on Monday announced that it has reached a partnership with a global digital media company focused on live entertainment to give alternative music fans who can't make it to Inglewood, Calif., on Jan. 19 a virtual seat at a big concert event.

In the Valley of the Sun, he's remembered as the CEO of Rivera Broadcasting. He's also been an Operating Partner at YMF Media, and as an Executive Vice President of pre-iHeartMedia radio station groups Capstar and AMFM. As of today, he's leading a group of five FM stations serving Southern Nevada.

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A new partnership is bringing three new audio streams from The Weather Channel and sibling weather brand Pattrn to Audacy Inc.'s app-based and online audio content consumers. Details were revealed on Tuesday morning.

Did Entercom swing to a huge Q4 net loss? Not exactly. On a non-GAAP basis, net income soared. What's the deal? A big impairment charge was recorded in the quarter. Why? "A sustained decrease in the company's stock price" led Entercom to perform an interim impairment test. Here are the details.

A Class A FM offering Country music as "Froggy" to a big college town, and its Top 40-formatted Class A FM sibling focused on Clarksburg and Fairmont, W. Va., are being sold. The buyer? It's the broadcast station ownership group led by James Kail.

For more than 28 years, Kevin & Bean have served as the anchor for one of the most successful Alternative radio stations in U.S. history: KROQ-FM in Los Angeles. Soon, it will be without one of its two main hosts, who revealed early Wednesday on-air that he's leaving.

Instead of annual bonuses, the audio content creation and distribution company will be giving cash-based retention bonus awards of varying amounts to its five leaders in the C-Suite and on the market level. For the CEO, it means $1 million in his pocket.

For three years, the operator of two big Christian Contemporary Music non-commercial networks has been battling an arts and culture-focused nonprofit in Pasadena, Calif. The reason? Co-channel interference claims, which the FCC nixed. A settlement is now here.

The FCC at its August Open Meeting will vote to seek comment on whether to change the way the Commission determines the maximum power for "digital FM broadcast stations." It could bring a welcome boost to HD Radio, while giving digital multicast audio choices a shot in the arm.

That's a question asked by "Simply Wall St.," a popular financial blog. With "significant price movement" seen in recent months, could this present an opportunity for investors? Or, is a price of $2.42 -- higher than where is today -- "reflective of the actual value" of Salem stock?

For listeners in rural Lompoc, Calif., Classic Country tunes have been the appeal of KTNK. Now, this AM with an FM translator has been sold to a veteran Country PD. 

For nearly five years, a hyperlocal AC serving Westchester County, N.Y. owned by Cumulus Media has used a 250-watt translator to continue what had been offered for many years on a Class A that's home now to an Urban station. Today, it has ceased operations.

For years, he was one-half of a morning duo who were heard on radio stations in markets ranging from San Francisco and Dallas to Atlanta and Raleigh, where they were last heard until August 2016 on "Mix 101.5." Now, an outpouring of condolences have been made to Julie Gates via Facebook after she revealed in a social media post that her husband, Gene Gates, has died.