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Under Amancio Suárez, and a few years later Heftel Broadcasting, WAQI-AM "Radio Mambí" would become a Spanish-language spoken word force for the Cuban exile community in South Florida. Now, forty years since its birth, Radio Mambí is coming to an end.

SoundStack said the jazz station has added “thousands in incremental sponsor revenue”

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In September 2012, a lawyer-turned-licensee of broadcast radio stations in the Sunshine State agreed to acquire a Class A AM radio station in Palm Beach County.  Thirteen years later, the facility and a sibling FM translator serving northern parts of the county with Haitian Creole programming are being sold.

Unauthorized tones are a "threat to public safety," the commission said

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He's been the Radio + Television Business Report's Top Local TV Leader for the last several years, and in command of the flagship television property within Graham Media Group. Now, he's no longer associated with the NBC affiliate branded as "LOCAL 4," as he has resigned from WDIV-4 in Detroit.

The offering, says Nueva Network, "combines Latino cultural intelligence with modern ad-tech to give brands a single, scalable way to reach U.S. Hispanic audiences across digital audio, video, and Connected TV."

For the first time, Pinterest will combine its intent-rich audience signals with a Connected TV engine, so marketers can clearly measure how television lifts the results of their performance ad campaigns. It is doing so with tvScientific, in an intriguing move for a social media platform.

The NAB has endorsed a request from aviation organizations that the FCC extend the deadline

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Just like industry peer Beasley experienced, Discord chat rooms about investment opportunities — as seen on social media platform X — are actively talking up iHeartMedia stock. With 30 minutes to go in trading on Thursday, their posts appeared to be working, with "IHRT" shares up by more than 8% from Wednesday.

Thanks to "meme stock" Discord chat among gamers and followers to dubious trading option-makers with followers on X, "BBGI" exploded in growth on Wednesday. Within the first 90 minutes of Thursday's trading on Nasdaq, the wild increase in value had all but evaporated.