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Univision San Antonio has flipped its AC Rhythmic format playing Hip Hop on KMYO-FM to a new Latino Mix. It's an English-language station designed for Latino San Antonians, featuring a blend of Top 40 and Latin Rhythmic hits. The playlist includes Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and The Chainsmokers to J Balvin, Nicky Jam, Enrique Iglesias, and Daddy Yankee.

SBS's much-delayed Q4 2016 earnings were released late last night and the company reported consolidated net revenue of $42.1 million compared to $40.3 million a year earlier. That's an increase of $1.8 million or 5%. SBS's radio division net revenues increased $1.1 million or 3%, due to increases in national, local, and digital sales. Local sales increased in Chicago, Miami New York and Puerto Rico.

In addition to finally releasing Q4 earnings Spanish Broadcasting Systems has also laid out what it is calling "a comprehensive recapitalization plan, and also says it is in default of its notes and a covenant.

Imagine waking up one morning as your cell phone and e-mail buzz crazy with questions and messages about your station's website, which in the middle of the night, was somehow redirected to a porn site. That's exactly what happened to the KCAA (Loma Linda, CA) website. CEO Fred Lundgren says, "What I saw on the home page was enough to give me a heart attack." He details what he had to go through to get it fixed in a Huffington Post Blog.

You hear more and more stories about it. Advertisers are spending increasing amounts on digital, yet, in many cases, they have no idea where it's going or if human beings are even seeing or hearing their ads. A new report by Borrell & Associates continues that theory, as online fraud continues to climb and advertisers are getting duped in the process.

Garvey, Schubert, Barer's Media, Telecom and Technology Group has filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the Commission to repeal the radio and television Main Studio Rule. The current rule requires radio and television stations to maintain a main studio within or near their communities of license. There has been a push, as of late, to get the rule repealed...

iHeartMedia's KISS-FM in Austin received some national attention Wednesday for a promotion called "Kiss-A-Kia." Listeners had to keep their lips puckered to the car (with a 10-minute break every hour). Whoever lasted the longest won the vehicle.

(By Paul Cramer) The term artificial intelligence often evokes images of sentient computers from Star Trek or cyborgs from The Terminator. While those are extreme examples of artificial intelligence or AI, the Oxford Dictionary gives a more pragmatic definition of AI as computers that have the capability to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, and decision-making.

Fantasy sports has become big business and very popular with sports fans. Fantasy Sports Entertainment Group is now making the FNTSY Sports Radio Network available to radio. The FNTSY Sports Radio Network is a free fantasy sports radio network dedicated entirely to fantasy sports enthusiasts. KMG Networks is handling distribution and media partnerships.

Attorneys James Sammataro and Hans Hertell, with the Miami office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, tell Radio Ink they have successfully defended SBS in the company’s second victorious copyright trial in the last six months. The court granted a "directed verdict" in SBS’s favor before the close of day one of the trial, ruling that the plaintiffs “miserably failed” to offer any credible evidence of SBS’s alleged infringement.