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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.

Records truly is his middle name. Soon, John Landecker can also boast that he truly is a Hall of Fame inductee. The NAB will induct the longtime former "Musicradio 89 WLS" voice into its broadcasting hall on April 20 as part of the 2020 NAB Show. Landecker's career also includes a stint at another Chicago station, WJMK-FM, and stops in Cleveland, Toronto and Philadelphia.

On Monday, Feb. 3, YouTube and Google parent Alphabet disclosed for the first time specific revenue figures for the world's most popular on-demand video hub. For fiscal 2019, the revenue for YouTube advertising was in the billions. It was slightly more than what U.S. radio broadcasters have likely attracted during the same period.

Exactly two years after former Top 40 KDND-FM "107.9 The End" signed off the air, with programming moving to another Entercom station serving Sacramento, the FCC has provided a "clarification" concerning a Construction Permit being offered in Auction 106 that will bring a brand-new radio station to the facility formerly used by KDND.

Thursday marked another gloomy trading session for Salem Media Group, which will see company representatives pitching itself to investors later this month at Noble Capital Markets’ Sixteenth Annual Institutional Investor Conference in Hollywood, Fla. SALM is trading at its lowest price since the summer of 2009.

The FCC believes satellite companies don’t need the entire C-band to provide the services to broadcast radio and TV stations they are providing today. That's why knowing what is in draft rules released Thursday by Chairman Ajit Pai that would reform the use of the C-band could be essential to your business.

Radio’s digital ad revenue blasted through the billion-dollar plateau for the first time, now accounting for 10% of total advertising revenue for the industry, according to research released today by the Radio Advertising Bureau and ad-tracking firm Borrell Associates. 

The Hispanic Radio Conference is pleased to present a session that will dive into the details, prep you on the prospects, and share how to best take advantage of the opportunities for maximizing the potential windfall the 2020 election could offer. Here are all of the details — along with registration information for this late March event in Miami.

Consider it a "refi" -- on much bigger terms. The nation's No. 1 owner of radio stations on Monday prepaid $150 million of debt before it needed to, with cash on hand. To do it, it is replacing its lender in a move that significantly trims its annual interest on the billions of dollars of debt iHeart still holds post-bankruptcy.

The Cleveland-based affiliate relations company founded by Danno Wolkoff and Laura Orkin has been purchased by a fast-growing Gen Media Partners-owned national radio network with offices in New York, Boston and South Florida. With the acquisition, Wolkoff and Orkin will become stockholders and join the C-Suite at Sun Broadcast Group.