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Office of International Affairs Announces Effective Date of Updated Foreign Ownership Rules

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In a four-page order released early Friday morning, Sacramento-based Chief District Judge Troy L. Nunley has modified and extended a Temporary Restraining Order preventing Nexstar Media Group from integrating all of the assets acquired in its merger with TEGNA for seven days.

The FCC Enforcement Bureau issued a Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting (NIPRB) per its authority from the PIRATE Act to New York property owner for allowing illegal broadcasting from their property.

The FCC Enforcement Bureau issued a Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting (NIPRB) per its authority from the PIRATE Act to New York property owner for allowing illegal broadcasting from their property.

The FCC Enforcement Bureau issued a Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting (NIPRB) per its authority from the PIRATE Act to New York property owner for allowing illegal broadcasting from their property.

"FOX 13" in West Tennessee's key DMA is owned by a licensee led by Todd Parkin. This could soon change, as RBR+TVBR reported in late March that multiple stations his group acquired are being transferred back from Rincon Broadcasting Group to Standard Media’s Community News Media LLC. That hasn't stopped Parkin from naming a VP/GM of the Memphis property once owned by Cox Media Group.

The Media Bureau of the FCC this week released an Order that extends an existing waiver of a rule that would require broadcast TV stations to provide an aural representation of visual, non-textual emergency information that is displayed during non-newscast programming.

It's a Class C1 FM known for playing "the most music" in Northwest Arkansas, from a transmitter located between Fort Smith and Fayetteville. Soon, it will be in the hands of a new owner.

The Office of Engineering and Technology grants the request of Hitachi Rail STS USA (Hitachi) for a waiver of Section 15.205(a) of the Commission's rules.

What do first dates and first meetings have in common? Everything, says public speaking expert Rosemary Ravinal. "Whether you’re sitting across from someone at a candlelit table, at a conference table, or on a Zoom screen, you’re doing the same essential thing," she says in this column.

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"The company’s recently announced financial restructuring marks an important step toward meaningfully reducing the debt burden that has constrained the business." That's what Cumulus Media President/CEO Mary Berner has to say about the fiscally challenged radio station owner's fiscal health as Q2 revs up.

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Remembering the longtime WADO(AM) New York chief engineer

The post How Richard Ross Kept the City That Never Sleeps On the Air appeared first on Radio World.

There were less commercially licensed radio stations — regardless of band — at the end of Q1 2026 than there were at the end of 2025. That's one key takeaway from the latest Broadcast Station Totals courtesy of the FCC.

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) addresses the risks of foreign adversary control of Commission-granted licenses and authorizations by adopting rules requiring a broad range of holders of such licenses, authorizations, or approvals to attest whether they are owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a foreign adversary, and, if so, to disclose additional information about such foreign adversary control. Among other things, the Commission defines categories of licenses and authorizations that are subject to the rules, and establishes a streamlined process by which license and authorization holders should file their foreign adversary control attestations and disclosures.