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Key Networks, a next generation syndication company serving the radio industry, and Bloomberg Radio, the global 24-hour business radio network, announce that specialty feature the Bloomberg Black Business Beat has launched across 20 radio station affiliates across the U.S. The affiliates include: WLIB-FM in New York, NY; WJBR-F3/100.3 in Philadelphia, PA; KDYA-AM/1190 in San Francisco, […] […]

Audacy has flipped Alternative “HFS @ 104.9” W285EJ White Marsh MD to a simulcast of recently launched Sports Betting “The Bet 1300” WJZ Baltimore. Following the January 2005 flip of Alternative 99.1 WHFS Annapolis MD to Spanish Tropical “El Zol“, the “HFS” brand was resurrected in the Baltimore and Washington markets multiple times by former […] […]

FCC Actions
Twenty years after being forced by the U.S. Court of Appeals to suspend collection of annual gather workforce composition data from broadcasters until issues regarding confidentiality of the employment data were resolved, the FCC is opening a comment period to refresh the record regarding the collection of broadcaster workforce composition data and obtain further input on the legal, logistical, and technical issues surrounding FCC Form 395-B.

The FCC continues to reach consent decrees with operators over missing documents from their online political files. Each of the groups have agreed to admission of liability and compliance plans:

Brandy Communications licensee of KOFO Ottawa KS
Carter Broadcast Group, Inc. licensee of KPRS Kansas City MO
Flood Communications of Beatrice, LLC licensee of KWBE Beatrice and KUTT Fairbury NE
Flood Communications West, LLC licensee of KSID and KSID-FM Sidney NE
Legacy Communications, LLC licensee of KMTY Gibbon and KRGI and KRGI-FM Grand Island NE
McGrath Publishing Company licensee of KVSV and KVSV-FM Beloit KS
Reyes Media Group, Inc. licensee of KCZZ Mission and KDTD Kansas City KS
WJAG, Inc. licensee of KQKX and WJAG Norfolk NE and KEXL Pierce NE

The FCC has also entered into a consent decree with Donze Communications, Inc.’s 93.1 KBDZ Perryville MO for failure to maintain its online public file.

Dismissals
The FCC has dismissed Roy Henderson’s S Content Marketing’s June 2020 application to increase Country 98.3 KULM-FM Columbus TX from a Class A to C1 with a move to 98.7 due to failure to comply with spacing requirements and the involuntary channel substitution proposed for 98.7 KTXN-FM Victoria to 98.3.

Deletions
Confirming to the FCC that 1450 WMVA Martinsville VA has been silent since January 2019, Martinsville Media has surrendered that station’s license.

Hope Christian Church of Marlton’s has turned in the license of Christian “Hope-FM 90.5 WLOM Somers Point NJ. Hope Christian Church acquired then WXGN in 2020 for $100,000. The surrender of WLOM allows the church to upgrade one of its other stations (see below).

FM Changes
With the surrender of WLOM, Hope Christian Church of Marlton applies […]

I’m still in my honeymoon phase with Dua Lipa, “Love Again.” It’s a song I’m hearing whenever I spend any time with CHR radio. It’s still a song I want to hear all the way through. Like three Dua Lipa hits before it, “Love Again” is a great hit single that confirms that listeners still […] […]

Salem Media Greenville SC has announced the addition of Stacie Bartro in the dual role of morning co-host to Bill Love on Classic Hits “103.3/95.9 Earth-FM” WRTH Greer/WLTE Pendleton and morning news anchor on Conservative Talk “94.5 The Answer” WGTK-FM Greenville. Bartro was APD/afternoon host on AC “Magic 98.9” WSPA-FM from 2006 to 2014. She […] […]

For the second time in a matter of months, a Charlotte based syndicated show is losing its longtime flagship. The Ace & TJ Show announced they will depart iHeartMedia CHR “Hits 96.1” WHQC Shelby/Charlotte on September 1 after nine and a half years at the station. Ace & TJ joined WHQC in January 2012 following […] […]