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“Local radio works,” Tom Duke of Swick Broadcasting told us

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It is a Class B AM radio station with a signal blanketing the Seattle-Tacoma market offering a Spanish-language Christian-themed format. Until now, it has been owned by Bustos Media. Pending FCC approval, this station and a companion FM translator will become the property of a Hispanic broadcast ministry.

On October 14, 2025, longtime multicultural radio broadcasting pioneer Sima Birach died at the age of 86. Now, his son has taken the helm at Birach Broadcasting, and he's signed off on the acquisition of an FM translator with a translator atop the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago.

He's the man behind The Video House, a Pittsburgh-based video production and editing shop he's operated since 1982. He's also the individual behind a licensee that is agreeing to purchase a low-power TV station in an Alabama college town.

Sinclair Inc. stockholders on Thursday elected the nominated nine Directors at the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting while also ratifying the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the broadcast media company’s independent registered public accounting firm for FY 2026. 

Weigel Broadcasting's business model, focused largely on digital multicast networks, has been largely successful. As such, the company is wary of a "mandated flash cut" to ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV as proposed by the NAB. The company owned by Norman Shapiro says it is very much a matter of economics.

Taryn Asher was suspended in fall 2025 before being terminated for what WJBK-TV in Detroit says was improper workplace behavior. She couldn't disagree more, as the former news anchor believes she was discriminated against based on her gender, and that retaliation led to her departure.

Video serves as "a historically resilient, high-priority category, even as the entertainment landscape grows increasingly fragmented and competitive." That's the primary takeaway from TiVo's Q4 2025 Video Trends Report, released this week by the subsidiary of Xperi Inc.

John S. Martin and Richard Thomas II receive plaudits

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The Arkansas Broadcasters Association has commenced its search for the organization's next Executive Director, ahead of the forthcoming retirement of the person that presently holds that role, Neal Gladner.