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The parent company of Rocky Mountain PBS, Jazz-focused KUVO-FM in Denver and HD2 "Urban Alternative" offering "The Drop" is the latest noncommercial educational entity that has chosen to downsize after a Republican-led Congress effort crippled federal funds distributed through the CPB.

A former home of a Polish-language Full Service radio brand serving Chicago has been sold. And, in a sign that kHz-band radio is imperiled in even the largest of markets, the final purchase price is in the tens of thousands of dollars — rather than hundreds of thousands of dollars.

CBS Atlanta, which debuted on August 16, 2025, as WUPA-69 took the network affiliation from Gray Media's WANF-46, has launched its new weekday early morning newscast. It's a 60-minute offering, airing in the 6am hour ahead of CBS Mornings.

Coloff Media LLC has decided to trim its holdings ever-so-slightly by agreeing to sell one AM and two FMs in an area north of Waterloo, Iowa. The buyer is a partnership that includes an individual who is a former Regional Director of Content for Townsquare Media.

The Board of Directors of ATSC, the television industry's Broadcast Standards Association led by President Madeleine Noland, has elected its 2026 Chair and Vice Chairs, welcomed new directors, and appointed 2026 officers.

It also sets new rules for transparency in “foreign adversary control”

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The broadcast infrastructure conference takes place in Vegas Feb. 23–26

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The FM sports station serving Portland, Ore., and owned by Audacy that recently replaced a Hot Adult Contemporary brand has become the new flagship radio home for the local Major League Soccer club.

All three vote-making Commissioners on the FCC have said yes to revised foreign ownership review requirements the Republican majority believes "maintain strong national security review processes while providing greater clarity for foreign investment."

It's a transaction that first gained radio industry attention in August 2025. Now, the deal is complete, putting K-LOVE in Milwaukee-Racine with the acquisition of two FM radio stations that are shifting from respective commercial formats to non-commercial Christian music brands.