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Gomez is on the record staunchly opposing lifting the TV caps

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Photos from the transmitter site of the station that birthed the Grand Ole Opry

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For 17 seasons, the radio play-by-play of the NHL franchise serving the Buckeye State has seen Bob McElligott handle the task, with TEGNA's WBNS-FM "97.1 The Fan" in Columbus, Ohio, the team's flagship audio partner. Beginning with the 2026-2027 season, all Columbus Blue Jackets broadcasts will be simulcast across TV and radio. 

Entravision's financial portrait during the first three quarters of 2026 was simply framed: digital advertising revenue growth and retransmission fees helped spark growth. At the same time, the Media Operating Loss doubled from the same period in 2025. Is this part of a long-term trend that will repeat in Q2 2026?

Veteran technology and public media executive will lead nonprofit consortium

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Mid-West Family Broadcasting has reached a deal to blend its four Springfield, Mo., stations into Zimmer Communications’ holdings in the market, forming a new nine-station cluster under local ownership. It's being billed as a "merger" in the Southwest Missouri hub between two longtime licensees in the Land of the Ozarks.

There's chatter that one of the nation's largest radio station ownership groups could be faced with its own oversized job force shrinkage. Why? The post-bankruptcy ownership structure of Cumulus Media shows that the president of notorious newspaper owner Alden Global Capital will hold a big stake of Cumulus stock.

PMI was founded by American Public Media Group, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, New York Public Radio, PRX, and the Station Resource Group through one of the final grants awarded by the now-defunded CPB to modernize the critical technology infrastructure that powers public media.

A new arrangement that brings ratings integration from VideoAmp into its ad intelligence platform will now allow MediaRadar clients to gain access to spot-level analyses of television advertising — offering a performance gauge that further puts a chink in the armour of ratings firm Nielsen.

The community-oriented station updated to a solid-state STX 10

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