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Audacy Hot AC “Q104” WQAL Cleveland has added Bill Ryan to its “Q Morning Show” alongside Morgan Wright. Ryan previously worked at WQAL from 1996 to 2002. He has also served as morning show producer for WRMF West Palm Beach from 2004 to 2009 and the syndicated Johnjay & Rich Show based at KZZP Phoenix […] […]

Townsquare Media has announced the appointment of Jonathan ‘JR’ Ruppel as cluster Director of Content for Lansing MI and Brand Manager/afternoon host at Country 100.7 WITL. Ruppel, a native of nearby Flint, joins Townsquare from Saga Communications’ Portland ME where he has been PD/afternoon host at Country 101.9 WPOR since 2019. He previously spent seven […] […]

FCC Actions
After an informal objection to their license renewal applications for 106.1 KPYM Matagorda and 105.1 K286BW Midland TX for failing to timely file resumption of operations with the commission, Elohim Group Corporation has entered into a Consent Decree giving the stations one year license renewals. The FCC states that KPYM was silent for 248 days in its previous license term between its sign-on in July 2019 and August 1, 2021. The decree also resolves issues from the failure to maintain its online public file.

After going unclaimed in previous auctions, the FCC has removed the following allocations from the FM Table of Allotments:

100.9 C2 Millerton OK
106.5 C2 Powers OR
103.7 A Mount Enterprise TX
107.1 C3 Paint Rock TX
105.9 A Hardwick VT
99.7 C Meeteetse WY

A seventh allocation had been proposed to be removed for a Class C2 on 99.7 in Snowflake AZ, but Estrella Broadcasting filed a comment that it has full intentions to bid on it in a future FCC auction. Estrella won the allocation for 94.7 Overgaard AZ in the last auction and said if it was able to make a larger opening bid deposit it would have bid for Snowflake as well.

FM Changes
Countering the Show Cause Order in the application filed in January by Waco Entertainment Group’s 99.1 KLTO Moody to upgrade from a Class A to C3, Univision’s “Zona MX 99.1” KFZO Denton TX proposes […]

Sunil Hali’s Zindagi 967 FM LLC is purchasing 96.7 W244DU Parsippany NJ from Cantico Nuevo Ministry for $750,000. W244DU, which despite being licensed to Parsippany, covers the area in Central New Jersey around Edison, which is home to one of the largest South Asian populations in the country. The translator, fed by 1310 WXMC Parsippany-Troy […] […]

iHeartMedia Country “New Country 103.9” WZDA Beavercreek/Dayton OH has added its first local personality with the addition of Gina Ferraro to the station as midday host. Ferraro most recently hosted middays at Cumulus AC “Warm 98.5” WRRM Cincinnati from February 2020 until this past March. It marks a return to iHeartMedia Dayton for her as […] […]

North Texas Public Broadcasting’s KERA is awaiting final votes to take over management of Classical 101.1 WRR from the city of Dallas. Should the contract be approved on Monday, May 16 by the city’s Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee and then by the city council in June, KERA will add WRR’s operations to […] […]