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Select Beantown listeners could soon hear something different on 104.5 XLO (WXLO). Cumulus Media plans to bring ZoneCasting to the station in the first quarter of 2027. In partnership with Aktira, Cumulus says the approach lets the station serve specific parts of Greater Boston

The Chief Telecommunications Counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee is headed back to the FCC, this time to run the Space Bureau, where Chairman Brendan Carr says she will play a key role in advancing America’s leadership in connectivity, technology, and national security.

It’s for women building careers in engineering, production or tech ops

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The average radio listener chooses 2-3 radio stations in a month, the company said

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WXLO plans a 2027 rollout of Aktira’s technology on booster-aided rimshotter

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Alongside NAB, they warn about dwindling choice of vendors

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After 34 years, the Catholic broadcaster cites listenership declines and high maintenance costs

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Three Boston TV employees who hauled cameras and live gear ahead of a blizzard get to make their case that the prep was paid work. A federal judge says the clock may start earlier than WHDH-TV believes, and most of the suit survives.

Thirteen years after first taking over the programming under an LMA, a South Texas broadcaster is lining up to outright own three Alice, TX signals serving the Corpus Christi area with Spanish-language Christian and Tejano music programming.

Disney Entertainment Television’s new money chief didn’t have to move far for the job. A finance executive with nearly a decade at the company, most of it around Freeform and ABC, is now the division’s CFO, with the networks, stations, and news group under his purview.