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It's an FM known for "the greatest Country in the world," and serves rural Inyo County, including the U.S. 395 corridor towns of Big Pine and the station's city of license, Bishop. Its owner put the station up for sale, as well as its AM sibling. The stations have been purchased — by the woman who leads sales.

The purveyor of Christian-themed and conservative Talk content that in 2021 relocated to Irving, Tex., is selling its former Ventura County, Calif., headquarters, while entering a sale leaseback agreement. Salem Media Group continues to use the facility for broadcast studios and corporate needs.

FCC efforts to stop unlicensed radio activity have seen a significant step-up over the last year. These accomplishments were shared in an annual report to Congress submitted by the FCC on the positives the "Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act" has brought to patrolling the nation's airwaves.

In November 2021, the FCC opened a filing window for new noncommercial FM radio station applications. Six groups of mutually exclusive applications for new construction permits resulted from the filing window. Now, the Commission has moved forward with its near-final tentative selectees.

A group of radio stations that lease space on an American Tower-owned broadcast tower located at the top of Buckman Mountain Road in the Austin, Tex., neighborhood on the west bank of the Texas Colorado River are coping with broadcast issues that began early Saturday morning.

As RBR+TVBR first reported on January 23, 100kw Country WCNK-FM in Key West, Fla., is being sold by Bob Holladay, ending 10 years of ownership by Holladay's group for the station.  It turns out a second, larger transaction was consummated, too, with paperwork filed late Tuesday night with the FCC seeking its approval of that deal.

NPR has selected a seasoned technology expert to serve as its next President/Chief Executive Officer. It's an individual who since June 2022 has been a Member of the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board and in October 2023 took the role of CEO of Web Summit.

To some, he's remembered as the host of the syndicated Saturday evening Top 40 program "Open House Party." From June 2012 through November 2021, he owned and operated four radio stations on Cape Cod. Now, John Garabedian is reentering radio station ownership, thanks to the estate of the late Bob Bittner.

A historically Black college based in tiny Marshall, Tex., has entered into a Consent Decree with the FCC's Media Bureau to resolve issues arising from the Commission's review of the license renewal of the school's broadcast radio station. In particular, the Public File Rule wasn't adhered to by the Wiley College-owned FM.

“CES 2024: The Year of AI,” is scheduled for Feb. 8 and will see Fred Jacobs present a summary of the new technology that will impact Radio in the coming years. The webinar is designed for broadcasters, programmers, marketers, and advertisers who seek more on the state of media in an AI-driven world.

It’s a fast-growing cable television news network and owned by the parent of WGN-AM in Chicago. Now, NewsNation is getting an audio roll-out every U.S. radio station can consider for their own listening audience.

An AM with an FM translator offering Adult Contemporary programming and its Classic Country FM, along with that facility's FM translator, serving Glasgow, Ky., are being sold. The buyer? Look no further than Seven Mountains Media.

When it comes to the Home Improvement category, two major national retail brands have been key users of Spot Radio. Historically, however, one has stood out over the other with respect to spot plays and omnipresence. For the week ending January 21, there was a role reversal at AM/FM radio.

An owner of seven radio stations serving the northern tips of Vermont and New Hampshire has been sued by the "boutique" performing rights organization founded in 2013 by recording industry veteran Irving Azoff, on the grounds that it repeatedly and willfully played songs some 1,600 times without a license.

A broadcasting operation headquartered in Charlotte focused on Christian talk and teaching programming and five secular radio station owners each face an audit of three years of statements submitted to SoundExchange concerning royalty payments they made pursuant two statutory licenses.