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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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Update expands configuration capabilities, routing control and AI noise reduction

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Until a move to the UK in October 2024, he served as Director of Corporate Program Operations for Gray Media. Now, he's at TitanTV, the company focused on providing TV viewers with the most accurate program listing and channel information.

They will be honored Nov. 19 at NAFB's 83rd convention

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Eight days after Audacy Inc. reached an agreement that places some 42 spoken word properties on the SiriusXM channel lineup, the nation's subscription-based and ad-supported satellite radio company is readying the September 1 rollout of a sports-only access pass.