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The Nashville-based non-profit organization that represents commercially licensed radio stations when it comes to music licensing matters has selected the former General Counsel at Audacy Inc. as its next Executive Director, as Bill Velez will be retiring on January 1, 2026 — ending a 17-year tenure.

For nearly 60 years, Arkansas’s only statewide public television network has worked to inform and inspire viewers through stories that educate and strengthen its communities. From June 30, 2026, that programming will be absent of anything from PBS — a casualty of Congressional CPB defunding.

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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