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As the CEO of TelevisaUnivision, Daniel Alegre is calling out one of the biggest tech companies in the world for threatening to "discriminate against Hispanics." How is Google potentially doing that? It plans to shift the Univision network away from its main bundle and to a premium tier. Alegre is fighting back.

It's a silent FM translator licensed to Greece, N.Y., that is designed to serve the Rochester, N.Y. metropolitan area. And, it is getting a new lease on life as Mars Hill Broadcasting has agreed to sell it to an individual, paperwork filed for FCC regulatory approval reveals.

There's a new Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Digital Officer, respectively, at Salem Media Group, the company focused on Christian-themed and secular conservative spoken word content announced on Thursday.

In August, a D.C. federal district court dismissed Soo Kim's $136 million racial discrimination lawsuit against the FCC and other players including Byron Allen, arguing this was crux to the Commission failing to approve his Standard General's planned acquisition of TEGNA. Now, a D.C. Federal Appeals Court is taking a look.

Here's some sobering but perhaps not-so-surprising news for those who have been closely monitoring the U.S. broadcast media landscape for the last several years: Media & Publishing is the only sector on course to record a real terms decline in ad spend between 2020 and 2027, new data from WARC show.

It said it aligns with a shift toward "digital-first audio experiences"

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As of January 1, 2026, there will be a new Market Manager in San Antonio for the radio stations formerly owned by Alpha Media, thanks in part to the company's recent acquisition by the Jeff Warshaw-led Connoisseur Media. This will see the retirement of longtime Market Manager Lance Hawkins.

FOX Television Stations has named a Senior Vice President of Human Resources, and as of Wednesday assumed oversight of all HR functions for the unit, reporting directly to CEO Jack Abernethy.

In the last week, two PBS Member station organizations announced that they will engage in severe service cutbacks, with NJ PBS completely shutting down in 2026. NPR Member stations are equally vulnerable, and the parent of two iconic New York noncomm brands is offering its shows at no cost to impacted stations.

Safety alerts, new stations and radio’s resilience are among the themes

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