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FCC Chairman Carr Appoints Dan Daly as Managing Director.

FCC Chairman Announces Retirement of Managing Director Mark Stephens.

Media Bureau substitutes the FM channel or class for five existing vacant FM allotments located in various communities in Alabama, California, and Texas.

Gomez on Media Consolidation at SOTN

The commissioner used the State of the Net Conference to advocate for guardrails

The post FCC’s Gomez: Fewer Owners Means Fewer Voices appeared first on Radio World.

The San Antonio-based developer of an all-in-one automation platform has brought to market a built-in traffic and billing system designed to simplify operations for independently owned radio broadcasting companies.

The FCC announces its intent to re-charter the Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council on or before March 26, 2026, and seeks nominations for membership.

Thirty years later, there is still much to learn from our experiences with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. That is the focus of an AEI event on Tuesday morning at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., that will feature former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt.

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Steamboat Springs, Colo., is world renown for its ski slopes. It is also the home of a seven-station radio station group that also includes five FM translators. Pending FCC approval, there will be a new owner for this "blizzard" of properties.

The nation's leading audio content creation and distribution company has appointed a new Senior VP of Programming in Arizona's second-largest market, taking control of what comes out of the speakers for eight brands including a heritage Top 40 station that is the original home of the Johnjay and Rich program.

It hasn't been confirmed, but the talk across the Nation's Capital was convincing enough to generate a vociferous statement of dissent from the lone Democratic Commissioner on the FCC. The Commission is said to have opened an investigation into ABC daytime talk program "The View."

Until Saturday afternoon, the NBC affiliate serving Western Pennsylvania had been blocked by law from subscribers to Verizon Fios' cable television services due to a two-month long retransmission consent impasse. Then, just ln time for Super Bowl LX, the dispute ended.

On Capitol Hill, the most important hearing in more than two decades for broadcast television will be held on Tuesday morning. And it is now known who will round out the roster of four witnesses that includes Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy and NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt.

After expressing statements that suggested he wasn't fond of the combination of the nation's largest single owner of broadcast television stations with the company formerly known as Gannett, President Trump took to his own social media website to express a change of heart.

The FCC Commissioner is standing by the Commission's push to adopt sweeping media ownership reforms, echoing the comments of the NAB and many of its broadcast industry members that outdated regulations prevent stations from competing for ad revenue needed to reinvest in local communities.