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A digital low-power television station presently airing non-secular programming is being sold to another broadcaster focused on spreading the word of Christ. 

It was on September 6 that the FCC established a pleading cycle inviting public comment in the proposed transfer of control of CBS News & Stations parent Paramount Global from controlling shareholder National Amusements Inc., to investors in Skydance Media. Now, a new pleading cycle has been established. Here's why.

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The holiday shopping season has arrived, and one major department store brand has stepped up its Spot Cable activity to help lure customers, the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report shows.

Come December 1, new local leaders will be taking over the reins for Gray Media-owned broadcast television stations in Presque Isle, Me.; Hazard, Ky.; and Topeka, Kan., respectively.

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When WFAS went silent, it took its MA3 with it

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The company helmed by CEO Bob Pittman and COO/CFO Rich Bressler seeks more time to repay its lenders by proposing to push out its repayment dates by at least three years. In order to accomplish this, two lender proposals have been drafted. Each would see a significant hike in interest rates in order to gain more time for repayment.

Pending regulatory approval, two Kentucky FMs, an AM and two FM translators will become part of a collection of Bluegrass State radio properties tied to the CEO of QUU Inc. who is also the former NAB Joint Board Chairman and EVP for Industry Affairs and Strategic Planning. Cantrell's group is getting something in return.

The president-elect called the commissioner a "warrior for free speech"

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