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On April 10, Beasley VP of Corporate Sales Bob McCurdy's departure was made under the guise of retirement. A month later, it became known that he was losing a cancer battle that involved a medical malpractice suit against three parties accused of giving McCurdy 25% of the prescribed dose of an essential chemotherapy drug. McCurdy has now lost his cancer fight.

Notre Dame Global Partnerships, the multimedia rightsholder for the University of Notre Dame’s Athletics Department, has signed on with Skyview Networks for a partnership that gives the school's storied athletics program end-to-end network management, services — including distribution, production, AdView inventory management software and affiliate sales.

The CBS Audio Network has enjoyed a partnership with Phoenix-based Skyview Networks since 2018. That relationship will now continue for the next several years, as the two parties have renewed their network sales and distribution agreement.

"There are massive unanswered questions about the direction that the COVOD-19 pandemic will take and how it will impact the underlying economics of the U.S. and the industries we cover," warns Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson. That's a likely explanation for his latest report on the state of U.S. media and internet companies: It's as clear as mud.

Get ready for a new immersive experience where you’ll have a front row seat to the action, and won't have to worry about navigating through throngs of attendees at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the latest major conference and expo to go virtual, owing to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

After some five decades in broadcast media, the Product Manager for iHeartMedia-owned RCS's Test All Media division is heading into retirement. He's been in the role since 2011, making him one of the key figures driving the group forward in the field of media and research technology. 

Get ready for one of the biggest morning radio show wars Seattle has perhaps ever seen. Jubal Fresh, who had been the host of the nationally syndicated "Brooke & Jubal" program before officially exiting the KQMV-FM-based show in early April, is teaming with his wife for a new wake-up program. It's set to air on the direct format competitor to "Movin 92.5" in the Pacific Northwest's biggest market.

With its Q2 earnings release date not yet known as many media companies next week will release their third-quarter results, investors have at least one thing certain as the owner of Mega TV and some of the nation's top Spanish-language radio stations enters August. Its publicly traded stock is about to be delisted.

In a private Facebook community page for those involved, in some way, with Podcast Movement, the CEO of podcast hosting platform Blubrry posted a note that deserves the attention of the radio industry. Why? It reinforces the fact that a podcast is not the same as a radio program -- especially when it comes to music and the licensing fees.

On March 27, a Hot Talk radio station featuring such well-known Atlanta personalities as The Kimmer, Shannon Burke, Kara Stockton and Mike Brooks faded away. Now, paperwork has been filed with the FCC that will transfer ownership of the the Class D AM and its FM translator to a new owner full of "spice."

The Independent Broadcasters Association has filed articles of incorporation in the State of Minnesota and is officially in business with a freshly formed board of directors. “We filed the articles last Friday, on a day where we were at 96% of our 3,000-station goal," says Ron Stone, the President/CEO of Adams Radio Group and the linchpin behind the IBA's foundation.

For a generation of broadcast media professionals, Clay Holladay is a well-known figure. From Mississippi's state capital, his New South Radio has included various properties across the Deep South. Now, it will be minus one AM and an FM translator serving the city of Jackson.

Educational Media Foundation has reached an agreement that will bring its KLOVE Christian Contemporary noncomm network to a big chunk of Kentucky, and to the Evansville, Ind., market. The station it is acquiring previously aired programming from FOX Sports Radio.

In 1992, a husband and wife with no prior experience in Radio built a Southern Oregon FM station from scratch. Health issues led them to cease broadcasting. As 2019 neared its close, Shirley Wilson -- the station's sole licensee -- passed away. Now, the station she built with husband Herb is about to come back to life. An Oregon State Representative is to thank.

The FCC Media Bureau has reached settlements with six of the radio industry's biggest companies in respective moves that it believes "will ensure timely compliance" with rules requiring that AM and FM stations upload to their online public inspection files records of requests for the purchase of political broadcast time.