He has spent the last 10 years as Electronics Research Inc. (ERI)’s Radio Account Manager for the Eastern United States and has been in the radio technology sector for nearly 50 years.
Now, Carl Davis is retiring, and his successor has been selected.
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The SVP of Distribution and Government Affairs for Hearst Television has been named to the NAB Television Board of Directors.
The appointment of Nick Radziul was made by Television Board Chair Perry Sook in accordance with NAB by-laws. The appointment is effective immediately.
Radziul joined Hearst in 2016 and is responsible for the broadcaster’s distribution rights agreements with all programming and distribution partners, including national program networks, multichannel video programming distributors, and television and digital syndication partners. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the ABC Television Affiliates Association.
Before joining Hearst, Radziul was VP/Strategic Transactions for CBS Corporation and served previously as Senior Counsel/Programming at Cablevision. He has also served as an associate at Davis & Gilbert LLP, focusing on media, advertising, corporate and entertainment clients, as well as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
Radziul assumes the Board seat of Patrick McCreery, President of Meredith Corporation’s Local Media Group, which was recently acquired by Gray Television.
MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF. — “From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California” was a trademark phrase used by the late news anchor Jerry Dunphy. It signified the vast size of the Los Angeles DMA, which includes such High Desert communities as Barstow and Ridgecrest and Beach Cities bearing the names Manhattan, Redondo and Hermosa.
Now, everyone in the nation’s second-largest market has access to NEXTGEN TV, the ATSC 3.0-powered digital broadcast standard. Making it possible across the Southland: Nexstar Media Group and FOX Television Stations.
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The U.S. Ad industry lost billions of dollars in potential ad spend during COVID-19 lockdowns, with the worst impact — to little surprise — coming in Spring 2020.
Now, an analysis by Standard Media Index illustrates just how steep the decline was.
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What appears to be a last-ditch effort by Urban One Broadcasting Network to salvage a radio station construction permit in Florida has failed. The FCC this week denied a Petition for Declaratory Ruling by the broadcaster to reinstate Urban One’s forfeited permit to construct an FM radio station in Cross City, Fla.
Urban One’s efforts to resurrect the CP for WURB(FM) date back to 2014 and its acquisition of an expiring construction permit from Alex Media Inc., according to FCC documents. Urban One filed an application to modify the construction permit just months before the expiration and proposed a new tower site. However, Suncoast Radio filed an objection to the modification saying it did not comply with the commission’s rules.
The FCC agreed and, in a subsequent notice sent on July 17, 2014, gave Urban One 30 days to amend its modification application. At the same time, the commission noted the CP permit for the proposed station was due to expire days later on July 21, 2014.
The FCC told Urban One: “This letter does not extend the expiration date of that construction permit or provide any additional time to construct.”
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According to FCC documents, Urban One followed up by filing two petitions for reconsideration — one asking for Special Temporary Authority to operate the FM at the new site — which were filed following the CP’s expiration. The FCC denied both in early 2015, determining “the construction permit automatically expired and was forfeited.”
What followed has been years of petitions and appeals filed by Urban One seeking return of the CP. The broadcaster’s most recent Petition for Declaratory Ruling was filed in June 2021 and sought reinstatement of the CP with an additional 18 months to construct the facility.
Albert Shuldiner, chief of the FCC’s audio division, perhaps ended the back and forth for good with a letter sent Wednesday to William Johnson, managing member, Urban One Broadcasting Network, which stated: “In short, then, there remains no construction permit for us to reinstate, as it was forfeited by its own terms on July 21, 2014. The call sign WURB was deleted, and the unbuilt Cross City FM channel assignment was deleted and designated as a vacant allotment in the Table of Allotments, from which it was subsequently added to the Auction 109 inventory.”
The FCC says channel 249C3 at Cross City, Fla., was included in the inventory of the recently completed Auction 109.
Cross City, Fla., is a city of 1,689, according to the 2020 Census, located about an hour west of Gainesville, Fla., on the state’s Gulf Coast.
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In late September, Diponti Communications was handed a Notice of Apparent Liability from the Audio Division of the FCC’s Media Bureau seeking a $7,000 fine.
Why? The Rhode Island licensee apparently willfully violated section 73.3539 of the Rules by failing to timely file a license renewal application and for apparently willfully and repeatedly violating Section 301 of the Act by engaging in unauthorized operation of its FM translator after the license had expired.
The Media Bureau has ruled on the matter. A fine is being handed to Diponti, but it’s been reduced.
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A Washington-based Hispanic broadcast ministry has decided to spin an FM translator serving the eastern community of Moses Lake.
The buyer? A broadcast ministry that will retain the core values of the property.
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Susie Hedrick, the Chief Executive Officer at vCreative, last appeared on the InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, in August 2020.
She’s returned today to discuss CES 2022 and Radio industry interest in this massive tech-focused event. Why is attendance important? Is this a learning experience for Radio, rather than an opportunity to show off Radio’s strengths to the tech universe?
Hedrick answers these questions in this 10-minute audio interview conducted by RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson
She’s a 28-year Hearst Television veteran who since October 2017 has served as General Sales Manager for the company’s NBC affiliate serving Pennsylvania communities from Lancaster through Harrisburg and down to York.
Now, this longtime local TV sales pro is he station’s President/GM.
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The independent TV measurement and analytics firm founded by CEO Kristin Dolan has turned to a former M&A banker at Goldman Sachs in selecting its new President.
Most recently, he held principal roles at several fast-growing firms — including 605-owned ad tech, measurement and services firm Adscribe.
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