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Thanks to its transformative $22 million transaction with Hymen Childs' Service Broadcasting, announced in May, Urban One has a "revitalized" Dallas-Fort Worth station group. As such, the company led by Alfred Liggins III has refreshed its leadership team in North Texas.

As of Saturday, WTLP-FM is abandoning its 20-year simulcast with WTOP Radio. Hubbard Radio placed the all-News station serving the National Capital Region on the signal in 2007. Before that, it was "Z104" — in two incarnations as a Top 40 station. Interestingly, it is the fourth hit-driven FM in the D.C. DMA since 1991 to adopt non-secular programming.

SXM Sports Pass will include the recently announced 23 local Audacy sports stations

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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.