Lee Harris, the President of NewsBalancer who has also served as Director of Integrated Operations for NewsNation and spent more than three decades at iconic all-News WINS Radio in New York, has taken the title of VP of News for both WABC Radio and the fledgling World dwide News Network., which is coming soon from Red Apple Media.
DirecTV filed a petition to deny the $171 million transaction that would see 10 Allen Media Group TV stations wind up in the growing stable of the second-largest broadcast television licensee in the U.S.: Gray Media. Erin Boone's replacement as acting Media Bureau Chief tossed DirecTV's plea. The deal's closing came late Friday.
A particularly bitter battle over carriage fees for Gray Media's broadcast television channels on one of the nation's two direct broadcast satellite TV service providers ended late Friday, with its channels being restored just in time for the Kentucky Derby on May 2.
Its properties include seven distinct television brands serving the Delmarva region and a collection of FM radio stations stretching from Wilmington, Del., and Havre de Grace, Md., to its home market of Salisbury-Ocean City, Md. As of today, these properties are under the leadership of a new President.
It was alluded to on Thursday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr during a post-May Open Meeting press conference with journalists at Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. Now, we have the full story as to why a radio station is getting a short-term license renewal
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