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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.

Will it rain or snow in the coming days? Is the heat wave and fire danger set to end soon in California? Answers to these questions are being provided to consumers of Entercom radio station websites thanks to a digital content integration agreement now finalized with AccuWeather.

In the New York Tri-State area, public television has been synonymous with Channel 13 for nearly 50 years. It's noted in the Billy Joel song, "Pressure," and the "Thirteen" brand has established PBS member station WNET-13 as a force. Now, WNET, chartered by the SUNY board of regents, is buying its first radio station.

In August, Entercom shared that it had acquired Brooklyn, N.Y.-based podcast producer Pineapple Street and the outstanding shares of a podcast creator and distributor it has had a 45% stake in since August 2017, when it was known as DGital Media. That latter transaction has just closed.

What if reaching consumers through a digital medium -- say, e-mail -- was a challenge for your radio or TV station or for a medium or small-business client? A Florida digital marketing company has a solution. It worked for newspapers. Now, it believes it's on track to work for broadcast media, too.

Longtime media executive Randy Michaels returns to Forecast this year, heading up a session that is bound to prompt undivided attention and provoke plenty of discussion, both on stage and from the audience ... and with good reason.

Townsquare Media will release third quarter 2019 financial results before the market opens on November 5. The news comes as TSQ's first month of Q4 has outperformed much of the stock's performance of the previous three quarters.

The owner and operator of one of the largest news operations in Nebraska has agreed to acquire an AM/FM combo located in the town of Sidney. Serving as the broker on this deal: Jason James of Patrick Communications.

In 1996, he pocketed millions by selling a pioneering Smooth Jazz FM in "America's Finest City" to Jefferson-Pilot Communications. Now, he's being remembered for his time as a radio station owner, following his death on Friday at age 68. Bruce Walton's passing comes amid sale rumors at two other San Diego radio stations.

Until now, a Class C3 noncommercial FM scraping the southern edges of the Cincinnati metropolitan area has used its signal to provide Christian Contemporary Classic Hits. Now, a programming shift is likely. The facility has just been acquired by another non-secular broadcaster.