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Pamal Broadcasting's stations across Upstate New York and lower Vermont continue to excel, with tremendous ratings and revenue success for some heritage Adult Contemporary and Top 40 brands. How does the company do it? Find out in this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, as we talk to COO Chuck Benfer.

Now silent under Special Temporary Authority, the licensee of an AM near Mobile has asked the FCC to move the station. But, the Assistant Chief of the Media Bureau's Audio Division wants further evidence that such a move "constitutes a preferential arrangement of allotments."

A Class A FM radio station serving a community to the west of Corpus Christi, Tex., filed its license renewal application with the Commission more than 90 days after it was due. Now, it may have to pay up for its timeliness fail.

The transfer of the common stock of a licensee following her death from one revocable trust to another within the family, minus FCC authorization, resulted in an transfer of control that should have not happened so soon.  To resolve the matter, the FCC and the licensee have entered into a Consent Decree.

The Boulder, Colo.-based publicly traded company behind a proprietary AI-powered platform for audio identification and classification and related technologies, "reinventing how consumers engage with radio, podcasts, and other audio content," has rolled out the newest version of its faidr app.

A 1kw Class B AM radio station in Danville, Ill., operating with 3 broadcast towers and its FM translator companion at 99.5 MHz, is being sold by Randy Richmond Services LLC. Who's the buyer?

A quartet of FM radio stations are moving forward with filings seeking the FCC's approval for the use of GeoBroadcast Solutions' "ZoneCasting" technology as part of plan to make their stations "hyper-local" — and potentially more lucrative in an addressable advertising world.

The Legal Advisor for FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr from March 2021 until July 2023 has returned to the role. She's been in the private sector for the last 12 months, leading state and local government relations matters for "a nationwide telecommunications infrastructure provider."

For 25 years, she was a local media fixture in Salt Lake City, serving as Local Sales Manager of KUTV-2 under CBS ownership and in May 2011 joined iHeartMedia as Regional SVP of Sales, rising to Market President in April 2021. Now, this longtime leader is trading the Wasatch Front for Orlando.