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National advertising sales specialist Katz Media Group has promoted from within to fill the roles of VP of Political Sales and Director of Political Sales, respectively. Each individual reports to CEO Mark Gray.

The Walker River Paiute Tribe of Native Americans in Nevada, due east of Lake Tahoe, has entered into a consent decree with the FCC that resolves a matter in which the tribe was tardy with the license renewals for a series of low-power TV stations it owns.

It is a 1kw Class C facility on the AM band that offers residents of a Mid-Missouri town St. Louis Blues hockey coverage, St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, University of Missouri sports and is a sibling to the "Your World Today" local news brand.  Soon, it will have different ownership.

Collapse of multiple towers knock out radio and TV stations as damage estimates rise

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NAFB survey finds 42% of farmers prefer radio over magazines, TV

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Roger S. Haddon is known across the radio broadcasting industry for his time as a Music Director, as a Program Director and as the President/CEO of the Sunbury Broadcasting Corp., comprised of four radio stations. Haddon has now decided to sell one of those properties.

Two U.S. Senators have asked the Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to lift its freeze on grants that are designed help improve the resiliency of public broadcasting stations.

It's a Class A FM serving Butte, Mont., as "The Zone," playing "everything that rocks." As of 10:30am Tuesday, "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour could be heard. In a matter of weeks, that programming will be replaced by Worship Music, if an Asset Purchase Agreement just filed with the FCC gets an OK.

They say FEMA’s action is “unnecessarily threatening public safety”

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Commission seeks to codify existing policies and streamline reviews in new proposal

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