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A contemporary R&B and hip-hop station superserving African-American audiences in one of Alabama's biggest cities is being sold, paperwork submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval has revealed. What does this mean for the station that "JAMZ"?

The owner of radio stations heard from Westchester County, N.Y., through the Adirondack Region and neighboring Vermont has named an Executive Director of Operations and Programming.

Educational Media Foundation, the Christian music noncommercial giant that operates the K-LOVE and Air1 networks, has filed paperwork with the FCC seeking its permission to trade an FM translator for that owned by another religious broadcast ministry.

Hartley Adkins, the iHeartMedia Markets Group President and one of the company’s key senior executives, is retiring. That news was first shared Wednesday. One day later, it became known through a second staff memo that his successor has been named, and she's taking the role as of September 1.

Delta Media Corporation, which owns radio and television stations in Lafayette and Lake Charles, La., has moved forward with the purchase of an AM radio station with an FM translator licensed to New Iberia, La. At the same time, it is donating an Opelousas, La., and its FM translator to a religious broadcast entity run by a Mouton family member.

He would become an honorary Cincinnati "Commissioner of Fun," years after his father sold WEBN to the Randy Michaels-led Jacor. Now, many across Southern Ohio are pausing to pay respects to Frank "Bo" Wood, who went from hosting "The Jelly Pudding Show" to becoming a nationally respected Rock and Roll Radio renegade. 

A temporary moratorium on filing the reports on FCC Form 323 or 323-E is now in place. Why? The Media Bureau, headed by Acting Chief Erin Boone, says, "With the next filing window approaching, we find there is good cause to waive the biennial ownership report filing requirement for a period of 18 months."

"We made significant progress in the quarter toward our strategic growth initiatives," says CEO Jon Kirchner. "However, as the quarter progressed, the changing macroeconomic environment created increased uncertainty for our customers, ultimately impacting our financial results for the quarter."

What happens when you fail to pay your regulatory fees associated with an AM radio station for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2023, and it’s nearly halfway through 2025? You pay up or show cause as to why you can’t. A Kentucky station owner did neither. Now, the station's license has been lost.

American Public Media Group, the parent of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and the Classical 24 service, has confirmed that it will engage in a reduction-in-force initiative that will trim between 5% to 8% of its staff. Other expense reduction efforts are also on the way.

In June 2020 BIN: Black Information Network launched on a group of AM radio stations owned by iHeartMedia and one of its full-power FMs. In June 2025, that FM scored a 1.1 share in the Norfolk ratings, as measured by Nielsen Audio. Alas, BIN has just moved to a smaller signal to make room for a new format.

The nation's largest purveyor of audio and video content superserving African American consumers has decided when it will peel the lid on its second quarter 2025 earnings results. For shareholders of Urban One, the hope is that growth in revenue will continue to fuel a year-long rise on the company's Nasdaq-traded stock

The NAB is "extremely pleased" that the FCC's top-four prohibition has been struck down by a federal appeals court, but is downbeat about the court's decision to abide by every other rule reinforced by the 2018 Quadrennial Review — released in the waning days of the Biden Administration.

As the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act gains traction on Capitol Hill, automakers doubled down on efforts to block it. Broadcasters are answering in kind with intensified lobbying to defend AM’s place in the dashboard and involvement in numerous efforts across D.C.

In an interview with Texas Public Radio conducted by its News Director, Dan Katz, the President/CEO of NPR revealed that it will cut its budget and divert those dollars to member stations most impacted by Congress' rescission bill approval, which claws back pre-authorized federal funding to the CPB.