The social medium of choice of the outgoing president has banned said individual for all time in the light of recent events. A company statement read, in part, “After a close review of recent Tweets … and the content around…
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NAB weighs in on ownership rules revision.
The National Association of Broadcasters has filed a reply brief at the Supreme Court supporting the FCC’s appeal of the action by the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals vacating and remanding the revised FCC local media ownership rules. Essentially, the…
Board changes at the RAB.
The new year has brought some changes to the Board of Directors of the Radio Advertising Bureau. Jeff Warshaw, CEO of Connoisseur Media, supplants Bill Hendrich as vice chair (Hendrich has retired from Cox); the post of finance chair, occupied…
Midwest LPFM stations may lose licenses for renewal application failures.
Four low-power FM stations—including one, incidentally, in my old hometown of Fairfield, Iowa—may well see their licenses yanked by the FCC for not filing timely renewal applications. The other stations are in Waterloo, IA, and the Missouri towns of Canton…
COVID Collaborative formed; NAB joins..
The COVID Collaborative is a bipartisan project to address the pandemic, comprising infectious-disease experts and organizations dedicated to defeating the COVID-19 virus and its mutations. The head of the NAB, Gordon Smith, is joining the group’s National Advisory Council; he…
Special-interest website launched in California.
The Victor Valley, CA cluster of El Dorado broadcasters, comprising six radio stations in the area, has launched a website dedicated to local news. The website is www.vvng.com. They join a growing number of stations and groups around the country…
Another IBA member benefit announced.
Noted consultant Mike McVay will conduct a programming webinar, “Programming Principles That Win in Ratings and Revenue,” exclusively for members of the Independent Broadcasters Association, on Thursday, January 14. To find out more about IBA membership, visit www.iba.media.
Federal global media agency CEO end run challenged.
Michael Pack, CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, which runs Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia, is trying to keep his conservative political appointees who are running those media in their jobs beyond the transition…
Jamie McKibbin, 43.
The longtime Jackson, MI radio fixture, who not that long ago purchased the radio group he’d worked at for 23 years, died unexpectedly in a boating accident in November. He is survived by his wife, Katina, with whom he had…
NAB defends radio duplication rule elimination.
After an appeal by a number of music-industry groups of the FCC’s order eliminating the radio duplication rule, the NAB has filed comments supporting the action, which ends the 25% cap on same-band stations with substantial signal overlap simulcasting programming.…