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Do you have anything to share with the FCC regarding the proposed acquisition of TEGNA by Nexstar Media Group? Your opportunity to share your party's views on the blockbuster deal via an ex parte filing with the Commission has opened.

It's an institution of higher learning "developing servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ’s redemptive love, grace, and truth to the world" since 1846. Soon, it will become the owner of two Hoosier State FM radio stations.

In March, a Class B1 FM airing Classic Country music under the "NASH Icon" brand went dark, concluding its service. The station's owner, Cumulus Media, thought the FM would be better silent than a money-loser. Now, the publicly traded company led by Mary Berner has found a buyer.

It already has a presence on Suffolk County thanks to WLIR-FM 107.1 in Hampton Bays, bringing programming heard on WABC-AM 770 to the easternmost portion of New York's Long Island. Now, John Catsimatidis and his Red Apple Media are reinforcing its coverage of the region with an AM and its FM translators.

The Chief Legal Officer and head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at the NAB has made it clear that any suggestions that retransmission consent is a relevant consideration when contemplating changes in the FCC's national television ownership rule are "unsound" and "wholly unmeritorious."

The weekly look at the actual amount of commercial airings per brand at both spot cable and spot TV is here, courtesy of iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors. And, at spot cable, there's a big push to increase consumption — and subscriptions — at Warner Bros. Discovery's key OTT streaming platform.

It had operated as a Class B AM radio station. As of Monday morning, it was reduced to an online-only offering featuring Christmas music. That's because this facility no longer has a broadcast signal. The FCC affirmed the cancellation of its license, for being dark for too long without permission and then seeking its renewal.

Rich Bressler will soon focus fully on his COO role at iHeartMedia. What's happened? The company has given Bressler's CFO duties to an individual who has been its Executive Vice President of Finance and Deputy CFO since joining iHeartMedia in 2019.

Stingray Group Inc.'s broadcast arm is expanding its radio station stable in the home of the Stampede. The deal will give Stingray three FMs in Calgary, joining a Top 40 station and Adult Hits leader modeled after its successful "Boom 97.3" in Toronto.

The man who has served as Senior VP of Media Operations at the broadcasting company that's parent to such stations as WUSA9 in Washington, D.C., and is poised to merge with Nexstar Media Group in 2026 — pending regulatory approval and a likely federal court challenge — has retired.