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In May 2023, Karen McCrary Mitchell was named Market President for two iHeartMedia markets in the Mid-South. Now, a successor has been named, taking control of the company's radio stations in those two locales. 

While digital dollars are on the rise, macroeconomic issues continue to cloud Cumulus Media's P&L sheet while the end of a partnership with The Daily Wire — producer of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and founded by the conservative talk host a decade ago — also impacted the bottom line.

Berner cites tariffs and other economic headwinds

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It's a FM broadcasting buccaneer in the Bay State, but it's being investigated by the New York office of the FCC Enforcement Bureau. And, its landlord has just been handed a Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting — an official warning to shut down or else.

There's another tweak to just how and when the Marconi Radio Awards will be bestowed upon their respective honorees, and it sees a shift outside of the NAB Show New York annual conference — an event that was eyed as a locale that could win over former attendees of the former annual Radio Show.

Advocacy group says some of the FCC's broadcast rules should be preserved

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It's a city etched into the fabric of American history and today home to an AM radio station with an FM translator branded as "Happy 93.7." Soon, these facilities and a nearby Class A FM covering the Harrisburg and York, Pa., markets, will be woven into the expansive network of noncommercial Christian Contemporary stations under the K-LOVE banner.

The flow of exiting Chief Executive Officers slowed in March, while staying flat from February in the Media sector. That's welcome news as the first three months of 2025 resulted in record CEO turnover, new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas show.

What happens when you fail to pay your regulatory fees associated with an AM radio station for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2023, and it's nearly halfway through 2025? You pay up or show cause as to why you can't. A station owner in Kentucky has 60 days to do just that.

Court rules refusal to disburse $12 million was “arbitrary and capricious”

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