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Power expected to return Thursday after more winds force outage

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Within hours of being sworn in as the 47th President, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.” On Tuesday, pursuant to the policies stated in the Executive Order, the new FCC Chairman announced that he is ending the Commission’s DEI promotion.

The NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers will simulcast five upcoming telecasts on Rock Entertainment Sports Network and on Gray Media-owned WUAB-43 in Cleveland. It's another instance in which a free-to-air television station is regaining live pro sports action after years of relegation to regional sports networks.

There are 11 new members of the FCC and the Office of the Chairman

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Some 26% of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other than non-Hispanic White, making the 119th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to date. In continuation of a long-running trend, this is the eighth Congress to break the record set by the one before it.

After 45 years of dedicated service, Teresa Samaniego is retiring as Vice President of Diversity and Community Engagement at KABC-7 in Los Angeles.  Taking her role is the Director of Community Engagement at KTRK-13 in Houston.

In 2024, Sinclair Inc. and APTS shared that the company that's helping bring the ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard to life would provide carriage of APTS member stations for free in markets where Sinclair has deployed NEXTGEN Broadcast Service and a public television station has not. The third launch under this arrangement has come to fruition.

Westchester County-headquartered Townsquare Media believes it is right on-target when it comes to its 2024 revenue expectations and where the company will likely end up for the year. Preliminary FY '24 results were shared by the company ahead of Tuesday's return to trading on Wall Street.

The newly minted Chairman of the FCC wasted no time in announcing staff appointments to the Office of the Chairman and to the Commission. Who is the FCC's new Chief of Staff? It's a Michigan Law School graduate who has served as Deputy Bureau Chief and Chief of Staff of the Wireless Bureau.

After many years of appearing as a guest on several shows each week, a Radio Hall of Fame inductee who became an icon as a fiercely conservative Talk host is getting his own one-hour prime-time program each Sunday on the Chris Ruddy-helmed Newsmax cable TV news network.