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To mark the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, NAB President/CEO Curtis LeGeyt penned a thought piece that shares how Spanish-language broadcasters are delivering "essential, election-related information to voters and combatting misinformation."

SPARC will provide tools to manage promo campaigns and prize fulfillment

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She began her career as a sales assistant for Petry Television some 30 years ago and has also been an account executive for the ABC affiliate serving Bakersfield. Since August 1998, she has been linked to the CBS and FOX stations serving this southern San Joaquin Valley city. Now, she will lead those stations for owner Sinclair Inc.

To fill the role, the advertising division of Comcast has hired an individual with experience at both Major League Baseball and as head of the Washington Post Creative Group — in addition to a notable tenure at Marriott International.

The multimedia company led by Byron Allen has reportedly engaged both Moelis & Co. and Kirkland & Ellis as part of a plan to address its debt maturities amid cost cutting that a source says includes permanent work-from-home arrangements for staff in New York and in Southern California.

It seeks to avoid delisting on Nasdaq

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The PBS Member serving the Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Burlington, Vt.; and, indirectly, the Montréal metropolitan area is one of two additional grant recipients of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds designed to give the operations cash for enhanced emergency alerting upgrades.

The owner of such radio stations as "98.5 The Sports Hub" in Boston, WCSX and WRIF in Detroit, and WMMR and WMGK in Philadelphia will move ahead with a reverse stock split in a bid to regain Nasdaq minimum trading requirements. What's the ratio it is going with?

Wade Davis is no longer the Chief Executive Officer of TelevisaUnivision, the company announced early Thursday, after reports in The New York Times and Reuters distributed Wednesday evening cited unnamed sources close to the matter that a change in leadership was imminent. Who's his successor?

Investors in Townsquare Media will be pleased with their "decent" return over the last five years. That's the conclusion of financial blog Simply Wall St., which took a deep dive into the radio station ownership group that derives most of its revenue from digital initiatives.