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The news was first shared on a Texas local media blog and shared by the individual at the heart of the report via LinkedIn early Friday morning. A former Regional VP for Urban One's radio division from October 2004 through March 2015, overseeing its Dallas and Houston stations, is returning to the company.

For thirty years, a nonprofit organization founded by Brent Bozell determined to clean up sex and violence portrayed on prime time television has fought for its advocates. Now, the PTC is in self-destruct mode, after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.

He was known by listeners as the "Voice of Westerly," for his distinct voice on a Class C AM serving the Rhode Island city on Block Island Sound. Christoper DiPaola passed away three years ago this coming Tuesday. Now, transfer of control of the AM and its associated FM translator he owned has begun.

An Ohio Congresswoman has become a co-sponsor of legislation Introduced by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) that seeks to revive the Minority Tax Certificate program, which from 1978 to 1995 helped facilitate hundreds of broadcast ownership transfers to women and people of color.

Beasley CEO Caroline Beasley will take on the CFO role on an interim basis, while Shaun Greening rises to CAO, both effective October 17.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Studios has launched what it is calling an “industry-first” podcast incubator in partnership with the University of Miami, giving student creators access to Telemundo’s production resources, mentorship and distribution platforms.

In the time since President Trump returned to the White House, the NAB has taken an aggressive stance on key issues that it believes are of the utmost importance to Radio and Television. In the words of President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt, the association has been on offense since Day One of the second Trump Administration.

A multifamily residential building is being proposed for a site on the west bank of the Malden River in suburban Medford, Mass., that until 20 years ago served as the home of one of the nation's most iconic Top 40 stations and its AM sibling. 

Ryan McClafferty joins the practice

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