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DirecTV has a no-cost programming service, and it has just added additional free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) linear content offerings from NBCUniversal, Fox Corp., and Warner Bros. Discovery.

“With Telemundo Deportes Ahora, we’re giving Hispanic audiences another way to connect with the sports they love, complementing our sports offering and enhancing their viewing experience on the road to World Cup and beyond,” said Joaquin Duro, Executive Vice President of Sports at Telemundo.

On Saturday, Gray Media's WANF-46 will conclude its run as a CBS affiliate, with Paramount Skydance-owned WUPA-69 becoming "CBS Atlanta" in the South's largest market. Unlike the debut of WWJ-62 in Detroit at the end of 1994, a local news team will provide Atlanta with another choice for information.

It's motto is that it is the "Pick of the Dial," and can be heard at 1570 kHz or at 102.5 MHz via an FM translator serving a Lone Star State town due east of Dallas. Soon, these facilities will be under the ownership of Christie Lynn Tate.

Jeff Jury says the evolution of the dash isn’t necessarily bad news for radio

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As part of the overarching larger merger of the companies, the FCC has approved Alpha Media’s waiver of the Commission’s local radio ownership rules to transfer control of its five licensed stations in the Tyler-Longview, TX market to Connoisseur Media.

The commission waived the local ownership subcap for Alpha's five Tyler-Longview market FMs

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While Allen Shaw in recent years sold WINC-FM 92.5 in nearby Winchester, Va., to Educational Media Foundation, he kept the Fredericksburg AM/FM combo linked to Centennial Broadcasting II. Now, he's growing, not selling, in Fredericksburg and adjacent Stafford and Spotsylvania Counties.

He has been with the FOX Television Stations (FTS) properties serving the Nation's Capital since 2014 and with the company for 20 years. Now, he's been promoted to VP of News and Content for WTTG-TV and WDCA-TV in Washington.

Trading on the OTCQX and with its stock hovering below $1 for more than two months, Salem Media Group has in recent months ramped up its video content while recently welcoming conservative digital strategist Harrison Weinhold to accelerate podcast growth. Will that be enough to reverse Salem's fiscal ills?