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The home of ABC, FOX and The CW Network serving the city that's home to Western Kentucky University has a new General Manager, starting Monday. He's being promoted from the role of Multimedia Sales Manager at this Gray Media property, and he'll also lead up sales efforts.

Yaman Coskun, the longtime radio industry creative specialist, has taken a post at BionicVO as part of an arrangement that sees his company become the exclusive business development partner for the company founded by Oink Ink Radio creator Dan Price.

The FCC's Media Bureau has established a comment cycle in which interested parties can chime in on a Petition for Rulemaking from XGN/X1 Mobile and Tyche Media that seeks Commission approval for low-power television stations to use the 5G Broadcast transmission standard on a voluntary basis.

Two weeks ago, she wrapped up what she describes as "one of my favorite eras yet." On September 14, the former Director of Communications and Social Media at the National Association Of Broadcasters finished her first day at her new employer — one of the nation's biggest telecommunications companies.

The Media Bureau's Video Division has granted the company's Petition for Declaratory Ruling — triggering criticism from the lone Democrat serving as a FCC Commissioner and from a fired Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. It puts partial ownership of CBS in the hands of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

According to Friends of Georgia Radio, "Sunshine Melodies" was longest-running show hosted by same person in North American radio

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Young Broadcasters Development Fund was launched with grant from two WBA Hall of Famers

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A bipartisan coalition of 18 former FCC decisionmakers has gained the support of two Washington think tanks, which filed an amicus brief with a federal district court in Washington, D.C., in support of a request for emergency relief made by The Walt Disney Company's ABC Television Network.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the FCC have announced that they will be teaming up to conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. Word of the test, scheduled for mid-November, came via a Public Notice from the Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.

Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Famers Terry and Sandy Shockley have been revealed as the founding grantors of the newly established Young Broadcasters Development Fund, aimed at inspiring career building in the broadcast industry.