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Why not celebrate Valentine's Day now?

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It debuted in 2009 as part of a wholeshift away from daytime television "soap operas" to more cost-efficient chat shows. Now, CBS is preparing to wind down this series, with a finale scheduled for December 20 for hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O'Connell and Sheryl Underwood.

Tightrope Media Systems has built a reputation for consistency over its 27 years in business, anchored through a managerial structure and staff that rarely changes. That consistency is a distinction. Yet, Tightrope’s longstanding managerial structure is on the verge of change.

The nation's leading licensee of broadcast television stations has confirmed that members of its C-Suite will participate in a pair of key institutional investor conferences coming after the Thanksgiving holiday.

It has been one year since SiriusXM launched a channel curated and hosted by singer-songwriter John Mayer, and it has proven to be a smash hit with subscribers. Now, Mayer is launching an interview series featuring "intimate and extensive" conversations between the musician and some of his more notable peers.

Orban tool boosts NY’s Original HOT 103/97

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The FCC allows legal, license-free broadcasting over a small signal footprint

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A few years ago, an FM translator with a signal covering suburban Milwaukee was purchased by Dave and Connie Stout. Today, that facility holds a Construction Permit for a Milwaukee-based facility due south of Whitefish Bay, and that's what made it attractive enough for a nonprofit broadcast ministry to buy it.

In September 2022, a 6kw Class A “ESPN Radio” affiliate at 96.5 MHz in Parker’s Crossroads, Tenn., was sold by Crossroads Broadcasting to News Talk West Tennessee LLC in a deal valued at $500,000. Two years later, the FM that reaches Lexington and Huntingdon, Tenn. due northeast of Jackson, Tenn., has run out of time due to fiscal challenges.

A Class A FM serving small agricultural communities in Georgia that have attracted first-generation Hispanics has been targeting this immigrant community with regional Mexican programming as "El Gallo" under a lease management agreement with its owner. Now, this LMA is being converted into an outright purchase.