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In June 2010, American University in Washington, D.C., expanded its reach by acquiring a 50kw Class B facility with a signal covering the entire Delmarva Peninsula, home to the Salisbury-Ocean City, Md., market. The station served as a repeater of its market-leading NPR Member station in D.C. Now, it is parting ways with it.

Throughout his career, Richards/Lerma Creative Director Aldo Quevedo has been motivated by his passion for big ideas and innovation. Now, he says in a Q&A appearing in an Argentine marketing and advertising industry publication that Radio is the one media that has evolved the most. What does that mean for marketers and for radio broadcasting companies?

Four SEC filings made last week by private investment firms paint a vivid picture of who presently holds big chunks of Cumulus Media stock. Among the groups taking a position is Boston-based Eaton Vance Management.

There's much mudslinging and overly biased language flowing to the media from Irving Azoff's Global Music Rights. There's also some choice words, and accusatory statements, flowing from the Radio Music License Committee. It's all over royalty payments, and GMR's antitrust lawsuit filed in California by the RMLC. Are both sides victors in a Thursday ruling?

A 10kw daytimer serving Spanish-speaking Latinos behind the "Redwood Curtain" didn't paid its Commission regulatory fees in full during 2007 or 2008. It also apparently failed to pay its FCC fees in full between 2012 and 2016. Now, the FCC has ordered the licensee to pay up.

Ask any audio editor or producer who’s ever worked with music in the podcasting space and they’ll tell you the same thing: it’s a pain to find good music you’re actually allowed to use. This Podcast Business Journal column from Casey Franco sheds some light on the subject -- a touchy one, given the latest GMR/RMLC battle news.

While cross-ownership rule changes nixed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals forced Cox Media Group to sell three daily newspapers in the Dayton-Springfield DMA to Cox Enterprises and has placed other newspaper/radio deals on hold, the owner of a publication in Utah has decided to purchase a Class C2 FM and an associated FM translator. It's perfectly permissable.

For longtime radio industry professionals, John Beck is best-known for his nearly 35 years at Emmis Communications. He is the last SVP of the company's now-divested St. Louis stations. After Emmis, Beck dipped into station ownership as a partner on an Arizona deal. Now, he's purchased an FM translator in the place he's called home since 1983.

Slow, steady and even infinitesimal growth is still growth, right? That's the positive spin the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group is putting on its just-released findings from its annual MIW Gender Analysis Study -- at least when it comes to the GM role.

Word Broadcasting Network has operated three Louisville stations licensed to Salem Media Group under a Local Marketing Agreement since January 2017. Thirty-seven months later, the Word is the bird: It's officially flying away with the properties, marking another sale of non-essential assets as Salem struggles with stock prices last seen in July 2009.

One of the nation's leading Hispanic media companies has selected online contesting, marketing, revenue and promotions firm Aptivada to provide all of its stations "online promotions solutions" -- a move that could give this company's LaMusica.com a bit of a boost.

The owners of a small radio station serving the northernmost communities of greater Los Angeles have been stuck in Yokohama, Japan, on a Princess Cruises luxury liner -- quarantined to their rooms due to the coronavirus. On Tuesday evening, local time, they checked in with RBR+TVBR and Radio Ink to provide an update on their situation.

The owner of Pandora is taking a further leap into the podcast/audio-on-demand universe by purchasing millions in SoundCloud securities, taking a minority investment in the operation. The funds will be used to "accelerate" SoundCloud's product development and enhance the services that fuel its global community of creators and listeners.

The broadcast media company, which owns the Cadence 13 podcasting entity and is the parent of the Radio.com streaming app, will host a conference call two weeks from Tuesday to review the results and what it terms "recent progress against its strategic initiatives." Here's what investors expect to hear from President/CEO David Field and CFO Rich Schmaeling.

Entercom's all-News station serving the Delaware Valley -- a former Group W and, later, CBS Radio property -- is now getting attention for partnering up with the two NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations serving Philadelphia for a content-sharing agreement. Sources ensure that the move doesn't impact jobs at the cluster, and the NBC deal simply replaces one with the CBS O&O.