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Entercom is acquiring three stations from Urban One: WPHI-FM in Philadelphia, Hot 104.1 (WHHL-FM) in St. Louis and 980 The Team (WTEM-AM) in Washington D.C. In exchange, Entercom is trading its Charlotte stations to Urban One.

The FCC's Media Bureau and the FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment for the Path to Media Ownership and Sustainability, will host a Virtual Symposium today. The event features broadcasters and lenders discussing how to obtain financing for station transactions.

WSOU 89.5 FM, has been honored with National Student Production Awards from College Broadcasters Inc. The winners were announced during CBI’s annual National Student Electronic Media Convention, which was held virtually this year due to the pandemic.

KOSI-FM in Denver flipped to Christmas music, as it does every year. 19 years to be exact. PD Jim Lawson says listeners have been asking him to flip since Labor Day.

STAR 102.1 (KDGE-FM), is playing holiday music for listeners in the Dallas/Fort Worth community. iHeartMedia has rebranded the station for the season as -'Your Home for the Holidays'.

We've seen two consistent themes as companies begin to report. The first is that revenue is improving every month since the bottom in April. The other is that radio companies now compare revenue to a previous quarter in the same year, as opposed to the same quarter the previous year.

Saga CEO Ed Christian, who is not a paying customer of Nielsen, spent about 15 minutes on his Q3 earnings call voicing his displeasure with the ratings firm's upcoming Customer First strategy.

(By Deborah Parenti) There are probably as many management styles as there are managers. No two managers are exactly alike, any more than are those they manage. And there is no perfect model. During my career, I worked for three distinctly different and, I might add, excellent managers. Here's why I say that...

It took 23 seconds for four orange and white towers, used in the 1960's and 70's, by WMAL in Washington to come down. According to WTOP the Bethesda, Maryland land in which the towers sat will be used for a new Toll Brothers subdivision with over 300 homes.

Rebert Feder is reporting that the MLB team will announce a new deal for play-by-play with Good Karma's ESPN in Chicago. Feder reports that the team rejected Entercom's offer to carry the games on WBBM-AM and WCFS-FM. The Sox were with WGN. Read the story HERE.