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A privately held licensee of broadcast radio stations found across the Show-Me State is largely to thank for the end of the FCC's TV "Top-Four Prohibition," as it successfully sued the Commission in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2025. Now, it has written to the Commission to outright eliminate its local radio restrictions.

Our experts comment on the remarkable power of today’s control and monitoring systems

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Who are the recipients of the Diane Sutter Shooting Star Award and the Broadcast Leadership Training (BLT) Champion Award?  We now know that this year's honors went to KOAT-TV's VP/GM and the recently retired FCC Video Division chief, respectively.

Together, Cumulus says the tools will give its account executives a framework for advertiser conversations built around category demand, consumer targeting, and competitive positioning rather than tuning data. The alliance comes as Cumulus continues its legal spat with Nielsen over coverage and pricing.

He's been with DMR/Interactive since taking the post of VP of Marketing Strategy in December 2019, helping shape the company's strategy as media consumption habits were shook by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he's been promoted to Executive VP of Strategy and Growth.

The changes would facilitate voluntary DIRS participation, NAB said

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Signals in Wilmington, Jacksonville are part of the $1.75 million deal

The post Curtis Media Acquires Five Stations in Coastal North Carolina appeared first on Radio World.

Tools and tactics to help your station prosper

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With a focus on its broadcast stations' programming and ratings, Sinclair Inc. CEO Chris Ripley on Thursday released first quarter 2026 results that beat analysts' revenue projections as the media company that also owns tower firm Dielectric and has a key role in the ATSC 3.0 rollout reaffirmed its full-year fiscal guidance.

If there was any doubt as to the seriousness of the chatter regarding a potential merger between SiriusXM Holdings and iHeartMedia, the early Thursday Q1 2026 SiriusXM earnings call held for analysts and investors perhaps offered a subtle yet plainly obvious sign that talks are indeed ongoing and quite substantial.