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She's known across the radio industry for her programming roles at such stations as WRKS "98.7 Kiss FM" in New York and WPOW "Power 96" in Miami and most recently served as Director of Operations for Cox Media Group's South Florida radio properties. Now, Jill Strada is settling in to a new role with a group of Atlanta radio stations.

Two weeks ago, it became known that Bally Sports Southwest will not be the home of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks for the 2024-2025 season. On Friday, the team owned by Miriam Adelson and led by CEO Cynt Marshall revealed who its new TV partner will be.

The publicly traded audio-focused media company founded by George Beasley and today led by his daughter, CEO Caroline Beasley, is moving forward with an exchange offer that swaps out old debt for new debt — at a slightly higher interest rate.

With Frank Montero as legal counsel, a New York-based individual is shifting ownership of a construction permit for a future radio station on Florida's Panhandle to an LLC for which he's the sole member. It now awaits regulatory approval.

But it will defer a decision that would let more FM HD Radio stations increase power

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Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink broke the news in February that Rick & Bubba Show co-host Rick Burgess would be going solo with his own syndicated show in 2025. Details regarding that program’s premiere are now known, and Burgess won’t have a long break after Rick & Bubba's end.

The North Carolina-based radio station ownership group led by Tom Birch has filed a 53-page interference complaint against a licensee led by one of the region's biggest local broadcast leaders. It pits Birch's Lakes Media against Don Curtis, and a Class C3 FM licensed to Clarksville, Va., against a 150-watt FM translator designed to expressly serve the cities of Cary and Raleigh.

What sets Nexstar Media Group apart from its peers in the television broadcasting space? With a stock price that far exceeds that of other over-the-air station licensees, founder and CEO Perry Sook and Chief Financial Officer Lee Ann Gliha had much to tout during a "fireside chat" held Wednesday during the Citi 2024 Global TMT Conference.

In this exclusive chat, conducted in early June, Pio Ferro opens up about working for a privately held broadcast group, how great content can drive revenue and advertiser ROI, and why a Foo Fighters/Becky G mashup may not be the best of ideas. It's all in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM.

It will feature community radio standouts, station diversity tools and election coverage how-tos

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