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The Center for American Rights — the organization that has fueled FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's quest to investigate ABC, NBC and CBS over alleged "news distortion" — wants Carr to investigate the trio of networks "for deliberately misleading the American public" about deported El Salvador-born Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

He hosts the morning shift on a Class B1 FM radio station licensed to a city just west of the Dayton metropolitan area, on the Indiana side of the border. Now, this programmer and on-air host is teaming with his wife to acquire not only this property but its radio siblings serving Richmond.

Come May 2025, the head of Arkansas PBS will exit, starting the search for the successor of a woman who joined the statewide noncommercial network in 2017 and "leaves behind a legacy of transformative leadership and innovative growth across content, education and community engagement."

With first quarter 2025 earnings results coming in the next few weeks, Senior Analyst Robert Fishman and the MoffettNathanson team revisited its financial forecasts. Why? They wished to consider "how such a bleak economic backdrop might affect our coverage universe." Here's what they came up with.

Revenue operations and digital advertising tech-focused firm Marketron has promoted from within to fill the role of Chief Revenue Officer. The job is going to a 10-year company veteran who took over the marketing team in 2024.

A February "adjustment" of the organization designed to "optimize the alignment" of Skyview Networks' business units has resulted in the departure of its President of Network Partnerships and Chief Revenue Officer, who prior to taking this role in April 2022 was a longtime Executive VP.

This year's event, scheduled for June 11-12 at the Sheraton North Houston at George Bush Intercontinental in Houston, pays tribute to Alex López Negrete, an individual who saw the future and recognized the power of Hispanic consumers before much of corporate America. He helped launch LNC in the mid-1980s.

The home improvement category continues to be a hot one for spot cable and spot TV, and for the week ending April 20, one retailer led the way when it came to the number of spot plays that were detected on Spot Cable.

Radio industry sales advocacy group RAB has announced the dates for the 17th annual "Rising Through the Ranks" leadership program for women, produced by the group and sponsored by Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Inc.

Alford FM antenna elements go to auction, proceeds benefit SBE Ennes' scholarship fund

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