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Home Radio and Television Transactions African American-Focused Radio Pair Are Sold An asset purchase agreement has been submitted for regulatory approval that would transfer a pair of AM radio stations and their respective FM translators to a new owner. There’s likely no big changes for listeners with this proposed deal, as the buyer is likely to keep the programming just the way it is. Please Login to view this premium content. (Not a member? Join Today!) Your Account

The NextGenTV team sets up its booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES 2022 With the 2026 NAB Show opening on Sunday and the broadcast television industry eager to finally bring ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV to critical mass, the Pearl TV marketing arm promoting the new digital over-the-air TV standard for the last several years has confirmed that a big marketing push focused on consumer affordability is a go for launch.

For some, it’s a real life boogie and a real life hoedown. Now, others will soon get to experience women literally grabbing the bull by its horns. Thank Brian Lawlor and his team at The E.W. Scripps Co. for that forthcoming new programming opportunity, on live and local broadcast TV.

At the end of the first quarter of 2026, firebrand television station owner DuJuan McCoy and his Circle City Broadcasting closed on his purchase of the ABC affiliate serving Indianapolis. This made WRTV-6 a sibling to two full-power stations McCoy acquired exactly seven years ago from Nexstar Media Group. Creating a three-station cluster, with the FCC granting a waiver to make it happen, didn’t come without detractors who lamented a consolidation of the WRTV and WISH-8 newsrooms.

For some, its time has come and gone, with television industry leaders convinced ATSC 3.0 transition for the nation’s broadcast stations is the best move forward and the solution for future-proofing a business under siege from “Big Tech.” A legion of low-power TV station owners think otherwise, and have hedged their bets that — at least for LPTVs — 5G Broadcast technology can work in the U.S. On Tuesday, the second domestic station officially launched its 5G Broadcast operations.

Travel to the Monterey Bay area and tune to a longtime AM radio station at 1410 kHz or its recently added FM translator at 94.7 MHz and you’ll get an Adult Alternative blend of music that’s attracted both locals and streaming audio audiences from afar. Now, that operation’s future is in question, as the facilities are being sold. Please Login to view this premium content. (Not a member? Join Today!)

In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, Radio + Television Business Report Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson speaks with Joe D’Angelo, the Senior Vice President of Global Broadcast Radio at Xperi Inc. That’s the parent company of such familiar brands as TiVo, HD Radio and the DTS AutoStage, and Joe offers viewers a little bit about the latest developments from a company that’s been increased attention to its broadcast media technology for on-the-go consumers.

Media workflow product specialist vCreative has brought a couple of new integrations to its clients. They connect the company’s Cloud AutoDub technology directly to two platforms, enabling produced audio to flow from production to playout with no need for a locally based server. The integrations are with WideOrbit Aurora and RCS’s ZettaCloud, which are widely deployed broadcast automation systems for Radio.

Artificial intelligence-powered audio announcing opportunities are a key offering from Super Hi-Fi. Just in time for the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas, it has brought to market a music scheduling machine “built for the way the human brain experiences music.” The product goes by the name Neuron, and it brings an AI-powered music scheduling engine designed with insights on neuroscience research based on published research from Spotify, the Max Planck Institute, and academic labs studying...

Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio, Inc. (MIW), the non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of female leadership in radio broadcasting, has revealed the recipient of the 11th annual 2026 MIW Airblazer Award. It happens to be the woman who is one-half of the WWBX “MIX 104.1” in Boston morning show.