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With its stock price at a 10-year-low, Beasley Broadcast Group has much ground to gain should it wish to reverse a decline in share value prompted by the sell-off of BBGI shares from the Bordes family acquired as part of its sale of Greater Media. Could the company's Q3 results provide a spark?

From the earliest days of the Radio Business Report through the sale of what became RBR+TVBR to Streamline Publishing, Dave Seyler was a key member of the editorial team. Now, the radio and TV industry is pausing to honor Seyler, who has passed away of cancer.

That incendiary question serves as the headline of an Insider Monkey video report on Entercom by Reymerlin Martin that puts a magnifying glass on why the radio broadcasting company has seen a decrease in support from "the world's most elite money managers" in recent months. 

Baby Boomers are active, largely employed and have disposable income that's hard to ignore. Yet, they are largely ignored by brand after brand, with a focus instead on Millennials and Gen Z consumers. Perhaps marketers shouldn't ignore the Boomers by using Radio, a Westwood One exec suggests.

An AM radio station that dates to 1952 and has been a sibling to a powerful FM Adult Contemporary station on New York's Long Island since its birth is being donated to a Spanish-language broadcast ministry.

When's the last time your broadcast TV or radio station demonstrated how YOUR BRANDS can connect you with more customers than any other media company? If this is done during each client interaction session, that's great. But, what about over a three-day "must attend" event?

Beasley Media Group is expected to unmask its Q3 earnings between Halloween and November 4. Will investors be treated to a not-so-scary report, or is a fright fest on the way? The latter may be the case, given BBGI's late-afternoon slide, sending it to a fresh five-year low.

In July, RBR+TVBR first reported on collaborative efforts between Eastlan and Mike Agovino for the launch of a new product offering from the Bellevue, Wash.-based radio audience measurement company. Now, key takeaways from an E-Plus test conducted in the L.A. market during July have been released.

In a blog post penned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai outlining the agency's November Open Meeting, confirmation came regarding a proposal to allow AM licensees to broadcast using an all-digital signal on a voluntary basis. On Tuesday, the Media Bureau formerly opened a docket on the plan.

Univision Communications' PR team isn't commenting publicly, but has acknowledged a Bloomberg report suggesting a special purpose acquisition company has been formed with the expressed intent of making an offer for the Hispanic multimedia company.

Will Salem investors experience a repeat of the company's last fiscal performance -- one that Zacks Equity Research says delivered an earnings surprise of minus 300% during Q2 -- for the three months ending Sept. 30? They'll find out a week from Wednesday. 

Due to several weeks of medical treatments in Houston, Dick Morris will not be at Forecast, scheduled for Nov. 20 at the Harvard Club in New York. In his absence, Morris has asked political pollster John McLaughlin to step in to analyze the trends and messages that will set the foundation for the election campaign.

What is a clawback? Just ask some of the top executives at Entercom. Five company C-Suiters signed an agreement acknowledging a new clawback policy -- formerly known as an Incentive Compensation Repayment Policy -- Entercom's board approved on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Sirius XM turned heads and even got mentioned on NBC's TODAY program for announcing today's return of Hallmark Channel Radio to kick off the "Countdown to Christmas." Cumulus Media doesn't want to be outdone. It's just flipped a Youngstown, Ohio FM to "The Valley's Christmas Station" a full week before Halloween.

The FCC on Friday at its October Open Meeting moved forward with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comment on whether to eliminate or revise its current rules regarding access to FM radio and TV antenna sites.