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"We continue to execute our strategic plan during an economically sluggish second quarter, including investing in multiple growth initiatives, while simultaneously driving further reductions in our operating costs." That's what Raul Alarcon Jr. says of his company's Q2 results as it also parts ways with Elisa Torres.

With the FCC poised to revisit the 2022 Quadrennial Review in the coming months, the NAB is pushing full force for the elimination of local radio ownership limits. Its legal team met with advisors to Commissioners Anna Gomez and Olivia Trusty days ahead of the Commission's next open meeting.

"Broadcasters must be able to make programming decisions free from government influence — a responsibility the First Amendment entrusts to America’s local TV and radio stations." That's what NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt expressed in commentary shared Sunday by the association.

As RBR+TVBR first reported on September 17, the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025 was sent to the full U.S. House of Representatives for a full floor vote by the Energy & Commerce Committee with a neutered sunset period of the law. As John Catsimatidis sees it, "The sunset clause is unnecessary."

"Younger marketing people may be more inclined to favor nothing but social media," notes Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy. Yet, while they do favor social media, Sunshine finds they may be interested in their older counterparts in good ol' traditional, linear media channels.

The presently bankrupt licensee of three Lone State State radio stations has successfully received Commission approval to shift a vacant FM allotment from one Texas municipality to another.

The "AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act" is poised for a full floor vote in the House of Representatives. This iteration of the bill features a key "compromise," one driven by "stakeholders" such as the auto industry. Yet, that still doesn't satisfy the person whose association hosts the annual CES Show each January.

Just two days after it shared how it was promoting from within to fill two newly created roles that reflect "the evolving structure" of its sales organization, Skyview Networks has made a second round of business moves it says is designed to "ensure we have the right leadership in place to guide our continued growth."

As public radio begins its new life without federal support through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR executives are adjusting the organization’s budget with Member stations in mind. The NPR board recently met and prepared a balanced budget for the fiscal year that begins October 1, and two big moves are in the works.

A Class C3 FM serving the Hot Springs, Ark., area to the west of Little Rock, is seeing a change in control, one that sees a husband-and-wife duo cede control of the facility to one Alice Bates following the wife's death in April.

Skyview Networks, the national radio enterprise led by President/CEO Steve Jones, has promoted from within to fill two newly created roles that reflect "the evolving structure" of its sales organization.

Tood Noordyk and his Great Lakes Media has agreed to hand an AM radio station in a small city east of Marquette, Mich., with the all-important "AM revitalization" perk at 97.7 MHz to an entity that happens to be the second-largest licensee of radio stations in the U.S. 

On January 16, 2024, the owner of an AM radio station serving Volusia County, Fla., died. Now, paperwork has been submitted with the FCC shifting the station licensed to New Smyrna Beach to the woman who hosts the station's morning show and is a key figure behind the scenes, too.

One of Australia’s leading audio content creation and distribution companies that's the parent of the Hit and Triple M radio networks has secured an exclusive sales representation and distribution agreement with Audacy.

The radio stations owned by the nation's largest purveyor of audio content in areas of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin have a new Area President, and he reports to Division President Shosh Abromovich.