On November 12, NBCUniversal Local Chairman Valari Staab will be honored with the 2026 RBR+TVBR Lifetime Leadership Award. Now, the Forecast conference presentation of this award will have deeper meaning — her post-retirement successor has been named, starting the clock on Staab's departure date.
A Class D AM radio station and its companion FM translator serving a Minnesota city southwest of St. Cloud will soon be wholly owned by the widow of her husband and business partner who held 50% interest in the station's controlling limited liability company. It's the result of his untimely death in September.
It's a collegiate athletic conference whose members today include public universities across the west coast of the U.S. Now, fans of this conference's basketball teams — both men's and women's — and its football teams' crowning event can tune to audio coverage across affiliate stations produced and marketed by Compass Media Networks.
For many years, the call letters were associated with a San Diego radio station. Today, they're tied to a Class A FM in the heart of Choctaw Nation. Soon, this radio station will come under new ownership, based on a FCC filing just submitted for regulatory approval.
It holds a Construction Permit for an 1,100-watt FM signal from a tower site in Carroll Township, Pa., allowing it to serve Pennsylvania's state capital once it returns from a temporary silence under FCC authority. When that happens, the owner of this facility is expected to be Seven Mountains Media.
The owner of 437 of a total 1,000 shares in the licensee of three radio stations and an FM translator in western North Carolina is moving forward with divesting her stake in the company, FCC records show.
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