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The broadcast media industry's premier gathering for multicultural audio programming and marketing leaders is bringing two of the industry’s most energetic and authentic personalities to the stage as co-emcees. The 2026 Hispanic Radio Conference is scheduled for the Hilton Phoenix Tapatio Cliffs Resort on May 27-28.

Another sale of a former Alpha Media property now owned by Connoisseur Media is in the works. The owner of a Christian Contemporary Music station in North Texas has agreed to acquire the 18kw Class C2 facility serving two cities just south of  the Red River and the Oklahoma State Line.

A new study from the Video Advertising Bureau finds that Americans "overwhelmingly trust" TV news over any other digital media source. When isolating that group of respondents to potential voters, the VAB finds that they are almost nine times more likely to trust TV news than social media platforms.

The departure of Paramount's Sr. VP of Government Regulations & Regulatory Counsel at the end of 2025 for a role at SAP and the abrupt exit of Jeffery Liberman from Entravision Communications has resulted in two replacements on the NAB Television Board of Directors for the respective companies.

The Black-owned radio network led by Chesley Maddox-Dorsey, has forged a strategic partnership with advertising technology platform AdGrid to launch a new initiative designed to help brands reach and engage multicultural audiences across today’s digital media landscape.

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The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) is committed to overing "its strong support" for legislation in the House of Representatives that would establish a "Communications Equity and Diversity Council"  — something the advocacy group says would ground its mandate in statute.

He has served as President/GM of Hearst Television's CBS affiliate in Kentucky's largest market since 2008. In just a few months, he'll be concluding a career that spans four decades — most of them with the privately held broadcasting company that's owned this station since 1998.

MediaCo Holding Inc. has appointed an individual to serve as Vice President of Operations & Efficiency. He will report to Chief Revenue Officer Brian Fisher.

As of July 1, 2026, the Arkansas PBS operation was to transform to "Arkansas TV" with the elimination of PBS programming as a result of a contract lapse. That was the result of a 6-2 vote by Arkansas PBS's governing body to not renew the PBS contract. It seems there's a bit of a change of heart.