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What has running an AM/FM combo in rural Arizona meant for veteran talk show host Rollye James and her husband? There are so many issues, you will just have to listen to this fresh InFOCUS Podcast hosted by our editor-in-chief to find out! LISTEN HERE

"If you don't focus on what is happening with marketing, and you drop the ball, you are going to lose your station." Those strong words of advise come courtesy of Gordon Borrell, who offered Hispanic Radio LIVE! attendees a detailed look at the local media ad landscape while offering suggestions on what Radio may wish to do to escape the COVID-19 blues.

The Independent Broadcasters Association (IBA) has announced a partnership with dk east associates, a media specialty accounting firm, to conduct a financial analysis of independent broadcaster operations.

With the recent transition of a heritage Columbus, Ohio, Alternative brand to streaming-exclusive operations, the future of the FM was one of speculation. It’s now known Hispanics of Mexican descent are the target. Urban One is the operator.

The Copyright Royalty Judges have approved a cost of living adjustment to the royalty rate that noncommercial radio stations at certain colleges, universities, and other educational institutions not affiliated with National Public Radio must pay for the use in 2021 of published nondramatic musical compositions in the SESAC repertory.

For more than a month, yuletide tunes have been easily accessible across digital and terrestrial audio platforms accessible to all across the U.S. Yet, SiriusXM, which offered a plethora of holiday-themed channels to its subscribers in years past, has seemingly skimped on its satellite-delivered offerings. That's not the case, the satcaster says. There's an app for that explanation.

Steve Harvey, popular national radio personality, television host and best-selling author, will be inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame during the NAB...

With Monday's news that Emmis founder and CEO Jeff Smulyan has formed a $200 million "blank check" company that could very well merge with a media company focused on sports bettor content, RBR+TVBR revisits a recent InFOCUS Podcast interview with Bill Adee, of VSiN.LISTEN HERE

The Commission’s auction of 22 CPs for new AM signals is over after six days of bidding. 22 stations were available and 10 received bids. The frequencies and calls, locations, amounts, winners and station power:

The revenue decline remains in the double digits. But, the results point to a good, if not great, quarter-by-quarter recovery from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic's economic carnage on broadcast radio in Canada. That's the story Montréal-based Cogeco is sharing with respect to its just-released fiscal Q1 2021 results.

One Catholic organization in the North Carolina Wilmington is giving WBLP-LP to another Catholic organization....