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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"?

Radio industry icon Randy Michaels has submitted paperwork with the FCC seeking its approval to purchase a FM radio station with full-market coverage of the entire Dayton DMA. His Radioactive LLC is already operating the facility, which widens "The Oasis" to cities including Springfield, Ohio.

Nielsen’s radio rule change gains traction

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An investment strategist with an academic pedigree spanning Yale University, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Columbia Law School, and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has sold his suite of investment advisory products to Salem Media Group.

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.

SiliconDust wants the FCC to confront "the DRM problem as it relates to ATSC 3.0 video gateway devices" by presenting two possible solutions. That's the company that sells a NEXTGEN TV gateway device which is whiffing with consumers due to a Huawei component that won't work.

Dan Slentz shows how an Ohio LPFM harnessed an "invasion" on Facebook

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Many date back at least 40 years and mean little for radio stations today

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In mid-2023, he formally retired from Hearst Television as SVP of Technology and Information Services. That didn't stop this television industry veteran from fully saying goodbye to the business. As of August 1, he's the new MASC Chair.

So, are you so over that pre-roll ad one sees when accessing streaming audio on one major platform? Perhaps fresh data from a "Viewer Experience Lab" initiative is of importance to both the agency who create the spot, and the media company in control of what's shown.