It is a Class B AM radio station with a signal blanketing the Seattle-Tacoma market offering a Spanish-language Christian-themed format. Until now, it has been owned by Bustos Media. Pending FCC approval, this station and a companion FM translator will become the property of a Hispanic broadcast ministry.
On October 14, 2025, longtime multicultural radio broadcasting pioneer Sima Birach died at the age of 86. Now, his son has taken the helm at Birach Broadcasting, and he's signed off on the acquisition of an FM translator with a translator atop the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago.
He's the man behind The Video House, a Pittsburgh-based video production and editing shop he's operated since 1982. He's also the individual behind a licensee that is agreeing to purchase a low-power TV station in an Alabama college town.
Sinclair Inc. stockholders on Thursday elected the nominated nine Directors at the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting while also ratifying the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the broadcast media company’s independent registered public accounting firm for FY 2026.
Weigel Broadcasting's business model, focused largely on digital multicast networks, has been largely successful. As such, the company is wary of a "mandated flash cut" to ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV as proposed by the NAB. The company owned by Norman Shapiro says it is very much a matter of economics.
Taryn Asher was suspended in fall 2025 before being terminated for what WJBK-TV in Detroit says was improper workplace behavior. She couldn't disagree more, as the former news anchor believes she was discriminated against based on her gender, and that retaliation led to her departure.
Video serves as "a historically resilient, high-priority category, even as the entertainment landscape grows increasingly fragmented and competitive." That's the primary takeaway from TiVo's Q4 2025 Video Trends Report, released this week by the subsidiary of Xperi Inc.
The Arkansas Broadcasters Association has commenced its search for the organization's next Executive Director, ahead of the forthcoming retirement of the person that presently holds that role, Neal Gladner.
While YouTube is acknowledged as the biggest free streaming platform when it comes to ad revenue — some $20 billion was seen in 2025 — MoffettNathanson's trio of senior analysts point to Tubi and Roku Channel, both of which have driven FAST growth.
As January began, it was made known that one of two PBS Member stations in the Toledo DMA would end its relationship with PBS because of the loss of federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Now, Bowling Green State University‘s TV station will be keeping PBS thanks to a Toledo savior.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies and the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee has once again declined to include what APTS considers "essential" federal funding for facilities across the U.S. in its FY 2027 proposed legislation.
Entravision's radio division, now under the leadership of Eduardo Maytorena, is taking AI-powered air talent to another level. The company says Al Aire y Sin Permiso, which pairs host GeeGee Guzman with artificial intelligence-generated "personality" Coyotec at "José 97.5" has been successful in luring younger Latino males.
The NAB has released a new television spot as part of its new "Keep the Game On" campaign that highlights what the association led by Curtis LeGeyt believes is a growing concern among sports fans: the increasing number of games moving behind paywalls and subscription services.
With the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and SEC v. Jarkesy, questions arose as to whether or not the Federal Communications Commission had the authority to impose financial forfeitures for violations of its rules. The nation's highest judicial body has spoken.
Nielsen has agreed to collaborate with Mediaocean by providing reporting on advanced audience segments for data-driven linear (DDL) national TV campaigns. The result is the expansion of an integration of Nielsen's Big Data + Panel audience measurement product directly within Mediaocean’s Prisma platform.
He's a media executive and advisor with more than three decades of experience "championing local media and its vital role in serving communities." As of June 15, this individual is the new President/CEO of the Washington State Association of Broadcasters.
The individual heading the group selling a LPTV property in Fort Smith, Ark., is the same individual leading the entity that's agreed to buy the station. What's happening is simple: Larry Morton has struck a deal to transfer, for a price, this LPTV property from a non-profit group to a commercial operation.
A woman who has served as Vice Chair of ATSC Specialist Group on Interactive Environment (TG3/S38), Vice Chair of ATSC Implementation on Conformance (IT-3), and Chair of ATSC Specialist Group on Management and Protocols (TG3/S33) has been honored with the 2026 Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award.
The Media Bureau has entered into a Consent Decree with SDK, which is purchasing a pair of noncommercial FM translators from a Hispanic evangelical broadcast ministry. This paves the way for the FM translators' respective license renewals. To accomplish this, a sizable "voluntary contribution" to the U.S. Treasury is being made.
Key editorial and creative leadership roles across NPR spoken word station WNYC-AM & FM; Classical WQXR; news-focused online brand Gothamist; and WNYC Studios have been finalized by New York Public Radio (NYPR) President/CEO Christy Tanner.
