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After over a decade at Townsquare Media CHR 94.5 WPST Trenton NJ/Philadelphia, Tiffany Workman has departed the station. Workman has spent her entire professional career at WPST starting as an intern in 2008. Since 2012 she has been part of the “Chris & the Crew” morning show first as phone screener, and later as a […] […]

After just under 30 years in mornings at Audacy News/Talk 1080 WTIC Hartford, Ray Dunaway will retire on Christmas Eve. The Kansas native worked at WRTC and WPOP Hartford in college and later worked at WWWW Detroit, WFAA Dallas, KHJ Los Angeles (as Mike Dunaway), and KUDL and KMBZ Kansas City, the latter of which […] […]

Deletions
International Aerospace Solutions’ Classic Hits “K-Tahoe” 590 KTHO and 96.1 K241BK South Lake Tahoe CA were deleted after failing to response to multiple FCC inquiries that they were Silent or operating with unauthorized facilities. FCC Field Office personnel and public complaints noted that KTHO went silent in December 2019 after its transmission equipment was deemed abandoned and seized by the tower owner due to nonpayment of rent. The translator was however, noted as being on the air originating programming as KTHO was off the air.

The FCC has deleted the license of New Millennium Communications Group’s 1040 WZSK Everett PA. After an agency inquiry earlier this year after a complaint was filed with the FCC’s enforcement bureau that WZSK may have been silent or operating with unauthorized facilities for over a year, owner Shane Imler replied in June but did not confirm or deny the operating status of the station only claiming “Wzsk has been up and down since the pandemic” and explaining that station’s transmitter was out for repair and its backup at life’s end. The FCC deemed that response to be insufficient.

Community Broadcasters surrendered the license of Sports “ESPN 1310” WDKD Kingstree SC as the station ceased operations on November 16.

FCC Actions
Mega Moo Radio Company and Nanette Valdez-Schwartz have been fined but granted waivers for failing to comply with the September 13 deadline for timely filing the longform applications for the permits they won in FCC Auction 109. Valdez-Schwartz has been fined $3000 for failing to file its application for 101.1 Medicine Bow WY until September 27. Mega Moo’s Amy Meredith was fined $1500 for filing its application for 100.3 Clayton OK until September 14, but asking for a waiver in her filing whereas Valdez-Schwartz did not.

Langston University’s KALU Langston OK and Lincoln County School District’s KLYX Pioche NV have entered Consent Decrees for failing to maintain their online public files.

The following licensees entered into Consent Decrees with additional licensees for failing to properly maintain their online political files:

Americom Limited Partnership licensee of KOLC Carson City and KRNO Incline Village NV
Brazos Communications West, LLC licensee of KQRX Midland and KMCM Odessa TX
Brazos Valley Communications, Ltd. licensee of KORA-FM Bryan, KAPN Caldwell, and KBXT Wixon Valley TX
KBEST Media, LLC licensee of KBST and KBST-FM Big Spring TX

FM Changes
Educational Media Foundation applies to move 90.1 WKWR Key West FL […]

After the CXR Radio LLC divestiture trust sought a one year extension to its requirement to divest CHR “Power 95.3” WPYO Maitland/Orlando and Alternative “97X” 97.1 WSUN Holiday/Tampa FL by December 17, 2021, Spanish Broadcasting Systems has filed comments against the extension alleging that CXR Radio has been negotiating in bad faith for the sale […] […]

At a moment when even a single CHR station in a market often struggles just in competition with itself, it has been interesting to watch the recent Top 40 battle in Atlanta. In September, iHeart’s WWPW (Power 96.1) was up 4.1-5.1. Last month, it was Cumulus’ WWWQ (Q99.7) that rebounded 4.1-4.9.  The flagship for both […] […]

Bonneville Phoenix has announced the promotion of Ryan Hatch from VP/Programming to SVP/Market Manager. Hatch originally joined the cluster in 2006 as Program Director of Sports 620 KTAR. He moved to the company’s Seattle cluster as Operations Manager in 2010 before returning to Phoenix as VP/Programming for News/Talk 92.3 KTAR-FM, “Arizona Sports 98.7” KMVP-FM, and […] […]