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GatesAir — a renowned company in the broadcast industry with a history of powering over-the-air networks worldwide for the past 100 years — has landed in the hands of a new owner. It ends three years of operating as a Thomson Broadcast subsidiary.

Thomson Broadcast flips the business after three years

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The future for Central Pennsylvania's lone NPR member radio station and its PBS-aligned TV station sibling is now clearer, ending weeks of uncertainty for the facilities licensed to Penn State University. The stations are en route to being sold, and Philadelphia's leading educational noncomm entity has come to the rescue. 

Canadian radio stations may no longer need to submit a license renewal application, thanks to a "modernization of radio processes" memorandum released Friday by the CRTC. The Commission also moved forward with a one-year trial allowing the long-desired simulcast of an AM station on the FM band in the same market.

The latest play count report indicating what the most active brands are using Spot TV and Spot Cable are out, and for the week ending October 12, a fast-growing accident attorney specialty law firm and a pharmaceutical brand are the biggest users of Spot TV.

The entertainment system will be available first in the RAV4 vehicle family.

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A new slate of incoming directors has been approved by the RAB at its biannual board of directors meeting, held last week in Carlsbad, Calif., as the ANA Multicultural and Inclusive Marketing Conference was also being held close by. Who are the incoming directors?

The fresh agreement allows Audacy-owned WJFK-FM 106.7 in Manassas, Va., the longtime all-Sports station serving the National Capital Region, to continue to serve as the flagship audio home of the local NHL and NBA teams. Meanwhile, the station is mourning the loss of Craig Heist.

A short-form audio podcast distributed on platforms such as Apple Podcasts hosted by Newsweek's Senior Editor-At-Large that "charts a path forward for American conservativism and exposes the woke Left" has joined the Salem Podcast Network.

Loss of federal funding from CPB brings new challenges for stations

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SiriusXM with 360L is ready to make its Toyota debut, and drivers of the new 2026 RAV4 SUV model will be the first to enjoy the technology, which  combines satellite and streaming content delivery into a single, cohesive in-vehicle entertainment system.

In April 2022, RBR+TVBR readers first learned of how RFS expanded the existing RFS antenna and combiner infrastructure atop 1WTC, enabling delivery of NEXTGEN TV in the New York Tri-State Area. Now, that TV station is the home of MediaCo Holding Co.'s Spanish-language broadcast TV network.

There's a new Program Director in place for the KHCB Media Group, which has long enjoyed a dominant position among Christian-themed audio brands in Houston and, in more recent years, adjacent markets in the Lone Star State.

SBE Chapter 37 brought experts together for a unique event

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Gray Television is moving ahead with a trio of station acquisition deals in the wake of a federal appeals court striking down the FCC’s “Top Four” ownership ban, as the Commission’s Media Bureau has the pleading cycle for public comment with petitions to deny due next week — assuming the federal government reopens.

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Tennessee broadcasters honor engineer Tim Berry

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Web-based tool integrates with automation and supports SMS, phone calls and social media messages

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The federal government may be shut down and more than 1,000 FCC staffers remain on unpaid leave, but that hasn't deterred individuals from submitting comments on GN 16-142 — authorizing the permissive use of the "Next Generation" broadcast TV standard known as ATSC 3.0 — on the Commission's ECFS.

A member of the air staff at KBDZ-FM 93.1, licensed to Perryville, Mo., and serving a swath of downstate Illinois and southeastern Missouri between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, has died after contracting West Nile Virus some five weeks ago.