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Some FM stations that lose a tower can’t move to another one because the FCC’s spacing rules say no. A petition now open for comment would let them, as long as the move causes no added interference and Urban One’s chief executive is among its backers.

A SportsCenter anchor with more than three decades of credits is getting the Alliance for Women in Media’s Gracies Icon Award. ESPN’s Hannah Storm will be among those honored at the Gracies Leadership Awards on November 16 at Tribeca 360° in New York City.

Hubbard Radio has brought back a former Alexandria operations manager to run the shop. Kris Valentine returns as General Manager of its Alexandria and Wadena, MN stations after a stop at Leighton Broadcasting, and he and Chelsea Valentine are restarting their morning show on KIKV-FM.

Radio’s ad return jumped 27 points in a 2012 study, then a recent do-over came back flat. A new IAB guide explains why audio keeps getting shortchanged in media mix models, and names the one party with the power to change that.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America is widening a college scholarship that once reached only broadcast families. Students with no industry ties can now apply, and six new awards join the original $10,000 scholarship, bringing the yearly total to $25,000 across seven awards.

A new guide outlines how media mix models underrepresent audio and how better data can fix it

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NPR has found its next product chief at a magazine company, not a public media one. David Berzin joins as Senior Vice President of Product and Data, with a brief that includes engagement, revenue diversification, and the data infrastructure behind NPR’s Network tools.

Twenty-one Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have a message for Senate leaders as another Republican FCC nomination looms: don’t confirm one without the other party. Specifically, the full-term renomination for Commissioner Anna Gomez.

Group’s updated loudness website tackles issues around hard-to-hear audio across broadcast, streaming

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How in-car analytics are changing the conversation for sales

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