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For a decade, she has worked in Radio in the nation's No. 1 market. Now, she's been promoted from the General Sales Manager role to General Manager at the two spoken word audio outlets serving New York owned by Salem Media Group.

Publicly traded Francophone-focused Cogeco Media, tied to U.S. MVPD Breezeline parent Cogeco Inc., will be welcoming a new President, effective February 3. It's a woman who most recently directed Radio-Canada, the French audio division of Canada's CBC.

He was the Digital and Media Director for President Trump's successful 2016 campaign and served as Campaign Manager for his 2020 re-election bid. Now, he's joining Salem Media Group as its Chief Strategy Officer. 

In 2021, iHeartMedia — which considers itself to be the No. 1 podcast publisher globally — teamed up with the National Football League to create the NFL Podcast Network. An extension to that exclusive partnership has been agreed upon.

The FCC has released its broadcast station totals for the last quarter of 2024, reflecting the three-month period ending December 31. The biggest takeaway? Some 30 fewer AM radio stations are on the air today compared to at the end of June 2024.

A Class A FM radio station serving a community to the west of Corpus Christi, Tex., in August 2024 was handed a proposed financial penalty for its late filing of license renewal forms with the FCC. Now, this FM is off the hook because it was the Commission's fault.

In February 2021, a former SVP overseeing Emmis Communications' radio stations in St. Louis was appointed Market President for the iHeartMedia cluster in the Gateway City, later adding Area President duties. Now, he's embarked on what the company calls "the next chapter of his career."

What is CES 2025 expected to bring to radio and TV? Mary DelGrande, CEO of vCreative + PromoSuite, believes attendees in Las Vegas will see "even more groundbreaking advancements that can reshape the way radio and TV operate in an increasingly digital-first world."

Audacy announced on December 16 that it planned to raise $100 million from the offering, with a strike price of $20 per share. The proceeds were to be used to pay down its current debt.  That's been scratched, due to lack of interest from potential participants.

A prominent valuation specialist for radio and television stations in the U.S. has done the math, and he's found that based on the population metric for Salem Media Group's end-of-2024 transaction that sees Educational Media Foundation acquire 7 radio stations, the dollar amount is perhaps higher than some may have expected for "stick licenses."

He began as an Account Executive, and has risen to Local Sales Manager, General Sales Manager and, most recently, Director of Sales for a seven-station Pacific Northwest radio group. Meet the new Senior Vice President and Market Manager of Audacy Inc.'s radio stations in the Rose City.

There's a new Director of Sales for Streamline Publishing's media division, which includes the Radio + Television Business Report, Radio Ink and the division's signature conferences, including the Hispanic Radio Conference and Forecast.

The first media network dedicated to sports betting will once again supply its audio sports betting programming to the nation's lone satellite radio service provider, starting January 17. That's the date VSiN content will return to SiriusXM.

It's been talked about for three years: by law, FM radio signals for Switzerland's much-consumed public broadcast stations were to come to a close-down by the end of 2024. That's now transpired, with DAB+ the main method one can tune to the audio channels without streaming.

The main source for PBS and NPR programming across The Peach State is starting 2025 with a new visual identity, an updated sonic logo and several other branding updates that can be seen or heard across 20 radio stations and nine television stations.