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The Founder/Managing Partner and CEO of Nueva Network and Costa Media will be sharing his insight at a Forecast 2025 panel on November 13. To get a preview of what is in store for conference attendees, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson welcomes Villafañe to the InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.fm.

From the Hawaiian Islands to New England, dozens of stations within the iHeartMedia family have parted ways with employees on multiple levels of the audio content creation and distribution company's core radio broadcasting unit. Among the casualties is the Market President for Raleigh-Durham, and the Boston Region President.

Four scrappy entrepreneurs have faced all of the threats and competition from digital media, streaming ventures and even cable television channels. How have these "Main Street Media" professionals succeeded? That's a question ex-NAB communications head Dennis Wharton will ask as a Forecast 2025 session moderator.

A Local Management Agreement has been signed that sees La Mega Media Inc. and Lazo Media LLC "taking a significant step to expand Spanish-language programming across its Ohio markets and into Indianapolis." How so? Urban One is taking the "La Mega" brand and its programming to stations in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Ohio, as well as Indiana's largest market.

From September 1998 through June 2017, it was a Top 40 station branded as "Mix 96.1." For the last 7 1/2 years, the FM has taken the "96.1 NOW" branding. Now, iHeartMedia has brought the "Mix" name back, but has adopted a presentation championed by its WLVE-FM in Miami.

The nation's top producer of audio content for podcasting and its 800+ broadcast radio stations releases its Q3 2024 earnings on Thursday morning, and the forecast is for a good fiscal check-up from CEO Bob Pittman and COO/CFO Rich Bressler. This led Zacks Equity Research to ask if now is a good time to buy "IHRT." Investors listened.

With Sirius XM Holdings shares going ex-dividend on November 5 and its value off by one-third since the start of 2024, some investors seem convinced that now is the time to buy — even as the audio content creator and distributor reported Q3 earnings on Thursday that saw its per-share income impacted by a non-cash impairment charge.

An Idaho-based non-profit offering a unique Christian-themed Country music format on a handful of stations across the U.S. is agreeing to sell a 100kw Class C1 facility in Montana. Who's the buyer? It is a Salt Lake City radio personality-turned-public radio station operator who has already taken the FM in an Adult Alternative direction.

Fifteen years ago, Steven Fuchs signed off on a Time Brokerage Agreement allowing Fox Radio Network to control a 25kw Class C3 FM serving a Missouri city along the Black River, in the southeastern corner of the Show-Me State. Now, he is converting that long-term lease into an outright purchase.

In March 2023, a 250-watt translator with a formidable signal across the Denver-Boulder market dropped its all-Comedy format by adopting a gold-based Country presentation under the "Front Range Country" brand. Now, the Audacy Inc. audio service is being put in the hands of artificial intelligence, powered by Super Hi-Fi.

A 1kw Class C AM serving the Lancaster-Palmdale, Calif., area to the north of Los Angeles is being acquired by a local operator from a Nevada LLC associated with the owner of stations along California's Central Coast.

The publicly traded company that controls Estrella Media's radio and TV properties and is the owner of WQHT "Hot 97" and WBLS in New York has a new Chief Operating Officer as Albert Rodriguez has assumed interim Chief Executive Officer duties, a SEC filing reveals.

From July to September 2024, listeners spent 67% of their daily time with ad-supported audio with radio, 18% with podcasts, 11% with streaming audio services and 3% with satellite radio. That's a key takeaway from the latest Edison Research Share of Ear report card presented in partnership with Nielsen.

The Chairwoman of the FCC has confirmed that the five vote-makers on the Commission will decide at the November Open Meeting if program origination for FM booster stations — the lynchpin for GeoBroadcast Services' "ZoneCasting" technology — is permissible beyond an experimental basis. The NAB and many broadcast station owner groups are against it.

One of the most recognizable multimedia personalities associated with Estrella Media, today controlled by publicly traded WQHT and WBLS owner MediaCo., will now see his radio program enjoy ad representation by a company some may consider a rival.