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He's an icon when it comes to radio personalities who first gained fame on "77 WABC." He later worked at WCBS-FM during its period as an Oldies station in New York and in 2020 returned to WABC-AM under the ownership of John Catsimatidis to host a Saturday night specialty show, shifting from Sirius XM. Now, this program is getting a national rollout.

As President-elect, Joe Biden spent months seeking to fill the fifth seat on the FCC, a chair that eventually went to Anna Gómez after two disastrous attempts to get Senate confirmation of Gigi Sohn. Today, President-elect Donald Trump wasted no time in selecting the next Commissioner at the agency.

A Class C3 FM serving the Burlington, Vt.-Plattsburgh, N.Y. market as an Air1 Worship Music affiliate is poised to become an owned station with the Educational Media Foundation family. That's according to paperwork filed with the FCC on Thursday seeking its regulatory approval of the transaction.

"SuperFrank" Copsidas has decided to part ways with a Class A digital LPTV station licensed to a small town in Indiana between Kokomo and Indianapolis. The buyer is the Norman Shapiro-led, Chicago-based company that is the parent of the MeTV Network and broadcast TV stations in the Windy City and in Milwaukee, among other locales.

She is a longtime aide to Sen. Roger Wicker

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A "reimagined" advertising sales and integrated marketing division at Sinclair Inc.'s broadcast group and a "dynamic new brand focused on news-news content and original programming" has been launched by the company led by Chris Ripley and Rob Weisbord.

RBR+TVBR has learned that a Fresno-area owner of broadcast TV stations in such markets as Bakersfield; LaCrosse and Wausau, Wisc.; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Tex.; and Yuma, Ariz. has signed on with brokerage Hadden & Associates in a bid to find the right buyer for its assets.

Exactly two years ago, RBR+TVBR shared the news that the golf league backed by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) had signed a multi-year agreement with Nexstar Media Group that made The CW its home for 2023 and 2024. That relationship has ended.

A Hampton Inn in Massachusetts has a love of timekeeping

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He began his radio career in New Orleans and has experience that includes serving as COO for Apex Broadcasting, and as VP of Radio for Griffin Communications. He's been on his second tour of duty at Cox Media Group since 2019, and in one month he's transferring from San Antonio to Atlanta to take the helm of its radio stations.