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The individual who since 2006 has served as the Creative Services Director at Hearst Television's flagship station in Boston has been promoted to the executive position of VP/Marketing for the New York-headquartered broadcast TV entity. He succeeds Suzanne Grethen, who recently retired as SVP of Promotion and Marketing.

Radio station owner Audacy Inc. and data analytics firm Claritas have forged a partnership just in time for this year's mega-sized affair. This, says Audacy, gives it enhanced measurement capabilities for clients through "a cross-platform multi-touch attribution solution for analyzing the impact of broadcast and digital audio campaigns."

The Radio Pirate of Mattapan is an individual the FCC wants stopped. It's warned the audio buccaneer's landlord that they must stop, or will pay the price for the unauthorized FM activity one can hear in a South Boston neighborhood.

FCC watchers and D.C. pundits are buzzing with the possibility that more, not less, Washington regulation over virtual MVPDs such as Hulu + Live TV — which will soon merge with Fubo in a multi-million deal announced early Monday — is on the way. It all stems from the adoption of a Report and Order by the Commission on December 31.

The General Sales Manager for Sinclair Inc.'s "FOX 47" in Wisconsin's state capital of Madison has been promoted to VP/GM after five years in his previous role.

Colorado station held an open house before turning off the signals

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At CES, the new solution integrates broadcast data for campaign metrics

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Chris Bungo, an original founder of PromoSuite, which in February 2024 was acquired by  Banyan Software with the intention of merging it with vCreative, has stepped down from his Technology Consultant position.

A prominent valuation specialist for radio and television stations in the U.S. has done the math, and he's found that based on the population metric for Salem Media Group's end-of-2024 transaction that sees Educational Media Foundation acquire 7 radio stations, the dollar amount is perhaps higher than some may have expected for "stick licenses."

He began as an Account Executive, and has risen to Local Sales Manager, General Sales Manager and, most recently, Director of Sales for a seven-station Pacific Northwest radio group. Meet the new Senior Vice President and Market Manager of Audacy Inc.'s radio stations in the Rose City.