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In one of the biggest radio station sales to surface this year, Local Media San Diego has decided to part ways with its Adult Hits-focused FM that was once "B100" and, later, "Star 100.7," in America's Finest City. With Kalil & Co. serving as the exclusive broker, a LMS filing seeking FCC approval is on the way. Lotus Communications is the buyer.

The addition of SBS brings one of the Hispanic audio content creation and distribution companies to the HRA, whose efforts include local marketing campaigns, research, creative development, and leveraging airtime and digital platforms to promote Hispanic radio’s unique value to advertisers.

The official title is "Director of Discipleship," and it is going to an individual who will be charged with oversight of Pillar Media "Star"-branded Christian-themed radio stations, found in Denver, Cincinnati and Central New Jersey.

Access to latest music and live updates is driving market growth for Radio on a worldwide level. But, there's a caveat — the upward momentum comes with a trend toward online radio services, a newly released study from U.K.-based Technavio finds.

A Class D FM translator that until now has been part of the regional Christian-themed "Truth FM" operation is being put into new hands. But, is it a sale or a reorganization of business interests?

As RBR+TVBR reported on December 17, Sweet Tea Radio LLC. — a.k.a. the licensee led by Christy Andrulonis — is adding an FM translator serving an area between Baltimore and Newark, Del., that had been a part of the "WHGM Gold" operation. Now, she adding an AM in this region to her stable of broadcast properties.

A pair of digital low-power television stations licensed to Dalton, Ga., are being added to the Gray Media stable of broadcast properties, pending FCC approval of a transaction agreed to on Tuesday.

Chapter 63 in North and South Dakota fills a geographic void, according to President Ted Hand

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Futuri teams up with emergency officials in the hurricane-prone state

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Why RNZ Pacific has reinvested in shortwave

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