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On Friday The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would take up the long-running legal dispute over whether the FCC can loosen U.S. media ownership rules. A lower court has prevented the FCC's efforts to revise the rules since 2003.

The House has passed The Heroes Act, which includes provisions to expand eligibility for SBA loan access to broadcasters. Before you get your hopes up that financial relief is on the way, it has no chance of being approved by The Senate and signed by President Trump.

Adams Radio Group CEO Ron Stone says his company has moved its  national rep partnership to IBA Radio Sales which is managed by GenMedia Partners. Stone created the Independent Broadcasters Association which now has close to 3,000 radio stations.

During this week's Hispanic Radio LIVE "It's a Wrap," a discussion that started with the kick-off session on political advertising continued, including conversation about ad "environment." What's the impact of opinions expressed by personalities on the air and in social media by advertisers and agencies? Here's how we address that in week two.

Savage posted to Twitter that he was done with radio and going to podcasting exclusively. We asked him what the story was but he pushed us off to his attorney Daniel Horowitz who would only tell us, "we have something brewing."

In a Thursday press release, Spanish Broadcasting Systems announced that as part of regularly evaluating market conditions, the company is looking at refinancing options to help the company deleverage.

AdLarge Media and Harris Media have put together Election Day from Motion Mixes/Broadcast Motion. The touchscreen music system that writes and ‘rewrites’ itself in real time has been customized for pre-election and election night coverage.

iHeartMedia Indianapolis has created community partnerships with eight nonprofit organizations. The organizations address the physical, spiritual, academic or emotional needs of the Indianapolis community. 

Jacobs Media and the Public Radio Program Directors Association have released Public Radio Techsurvey 2020, an annual study that looks at digital media's impact on public radio. This 12th annual survey also shows how big an impact politics and COVID has had on public radio.

AdLarge Media will now be repping National Sports Network for ad sales of the network's NCAA basketball play-by-play coverage on radio.