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A 1kw daytime-only AM radio station with an FM translator serving a small town in North Carolina is seeking the FCC's approval to give 100% ownership of the facilities to Glasgow Hicks III.

It's the last week of 2025 for brands to build consumer awareness and sales through TV spots, and at cable TV networks tracked by Media Monitors, the play count crown goes to an auto insurance specialist that was barely a household name 15 years ago.

So, are you so over that pre-roll ad one sees when accessing streaming audio on one major platform? Perhaps fresh data from a "Viewer Experience Lab" initiative is of importance to both the agency who create the spot, and the media company in control of what's shown.

The Association of Public Radio Engineers, for the 26th year, will hold its annual Public Radio Engineering Conference (PREC) in Las Vegas ahead of the NAB Show. Registration has opened, and the PREC is pricing the event at the same level as it did in 2024 and 2025.

For nearly a decade, a tastemaker NPR Member station known for decades as a hub for unique Adult Alternative-influenced music has served San Luis Obispo, Calif., with its "Eclectic 24" service. Soon, that will come to an end — but it depends on the FCC's OK of a local ownership rule waiver.

Do you have a New Year resolution? If not, think about your listeners. Many do, and even if they don't hold to their promises, radio is still empowered to profit from them. How? Here's some food for thought from the RBR+TVBR archives that could still help a few years later ... unless, of course, dieting and exercise are your New Year resolution.

New Year's Eve 2025 is rapidly approaching, and broadcast TV stations that are developing plans for their on-air, online and social coverage of New Year’s Eve now have access to this year’s official Times Square New Year’s Eve content, courtesy of Countdown Entertainment and the Times Square Alliance.

A Class D AM with a regional Mexican format serving Loveland and nearby Fort Collins, Colo., along with its corresponding FM translator, will soon be under a new ownership structure, paperwork filed for approval at the FCC shows.

"Without CPB funding and amid the collapse of many local-news ecosystems, 2026 will require new approaches"

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