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She joined Gray Media’s NBC affiliate in Anchorage in 1981, and since then has served as the station's Director of Marketing, Programming Director and General Sales Manager before rising to General Manager. Friday will mark the final day of her professional career, as retirement awaits come January 6.

Led by CEO Ken Harrison, Waterstone has made its mark with Christian-themed charity groups through grants and fundraising. Now, it is a major shareholder of publicly traded Salem Media Group.

For the last several months, an Atlanta-headquartered publicly traded owner of broadcast TV stations has been referring to itself under a slightly different name than the one used on Wall Street. Now, investors who wish to invest in "GTN" will have no confusion as to what media company they are putting their dollars into.

WFSH"104.7 The Fish" has been a ratings winner for Salem Media Group, which arrived in Atlanta in August 2000 thanks to an asset swap with Cox Media Group. Now, Salem is making a strategic move that strengthens its finances by parting ways with not only this CCM-focused FM, but all of its other stations airing Christian Contemporary Music.

The court has expedited hearings for June 2025, with payments deferred until the legal process concludes. In the meantime, streaming companies, including Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and Disney, have mounted public opposition.

It promises "Real Music," and those who enjoy "Americana Gold" have come to make The Creek 100.9 an audio destination while in Macon and Warner Robbins, Ga. Now, the fate of this estuary of unique tunes has come into question, as it is being sold.

Salem Media Group has announced the $80 million sale of its remaining Contemporary Christian Music stations as part of a series of major financial and strategic transactions. The move brings the end of the broadcaster’s CCM format, commonly under the “Fish” moniker.

Mediaproxy has been awarded formal approval by Dolby for the Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby AC-4 decoders. This adds support for all of Dolby's distribution codecs and the Dolby Atmos immersive audio format to the LogServer compliance monitoring software platform and Monwall multiviewer.

Entravision Communications is on the hook for a small fine for its failure to upload its programs/issues lists to the online public inspection file (OPIF) associated with a low-power TV station it owns.

Thanks to the "PIRATE Act," the FCC is able to go after landlords of buildings found to be the origin point for unlicensed radio stations. Now, an individual who owns a property in a small city north of Dayton, Ohio, has been warned to stop the buccaneer broadcasts coming from the site.