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Salem Media Group has announced the $80 million sale of its remaining Contemporary Christian Music stations as part of a series of major financial and strategic transactions. The move brings the end of the broadcaster’s CCM format, commonly under the “Fish” moniker.

Mediaproxy has been awarded formal approval by Dolby for the Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby AC-4 decoders. This adds support for all of Dolby's distribution codecs and the Dolby Atmos immersive audio format to the LogServer compliance monitoring software platform and Monwall multiviewer.

Entravision Communications is on the hook for a small fine for its failure to upload its programs/issues lists to the online public inspection file (OPIF) associated with a low-power TV station it owns.

Thanks to the "PIRATE Act," the FCC is able to go after landlords of buildings found to be the origin point for unlicensed radio stations. Now, an individual who owns a property in a small city north of Dayton, Ohio, has been warned to stop the buccaneer broadcasts coming from the site.

In September 2018, the post-Les Moonves era at what was then-called CBS Corporation entered another new chapter. Dick Parsons — the former head of Time Warner — was named Interim Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Now, many across the broadcast media industry are paying tribute to Parsons, who died December 26 in New York.

The made-for-TV movie was a genre that helped to make Irv Wilson an integral broadcast TV executive in the 1970s. Wilson died on Thursday at the age of 93, following a short illness. His work includes an acclaimed account of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which aired on ABC some 50 years ago as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation.

The Christmas holiday season is now in the past, but there was one big retail chain that took to Spot TV to target last-minute shoppers in the two days leading up to Santa Claus' arrival across the U.S.

Flags are at half-staff and a National Day of Mourning is scheduled for Thursday, January 9, in honor of the 39th president of the United States. James Earl Carter Jr., known as "Jimmy" to all, has died at the age of 100. His legacy at the FCC under Chairman Charles Ferris, who died in February of this year, is tremendous.

They are the couple behind "Denver Digital Television LLC" and have long been associated with low-power television station ownership. Now, Penny and David Drucker are agreeing to acquire a property serving the Colorado mountain communities of Vail and Avon.

There will be no "great affiliation swap" in some 25 DMAs across the U.S., thanks to a freshly signed agreement between a major broadcast TV station ownership group and The Walt Disney Company. Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr earlier this month expressed his concern that such deals were heavy-handed, in favor of ABC's parent.