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The Spanish-language media company has been entertaining offers since last summer. An investor group led by former Viacom CFO Wade Davis has agreed to acquire a 64% majority stake in Univision. Davis will become the CEO. The group includes private equity firm Searchlight Capital and ForgeLight.

It was 499% above its allowed 10-watt output, according to an FCC notice of violation. The Commission also wrote up Iglesia Pentecostal Casa De Dios Para Las Naciones, owner of LPFM KCGG-LP, for not logging EAS tests. Read the notice HERE. .

The NAB just got a little help from its friends on Capitol Hill. Republican Minnesota Congressmen Tom Emmer (pictured here) and Democrat Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania have formed a new Congressional Broadcasters Caucus. Both Congressmen are former broadcasters

Nashville's Hip-Hop and R&B station WUBT, and Gospel station WNRQ, will hold the 6th Annual Sista Strut Breast Cancer walk to promote breast cancer screenings in the African American community.

The popular podcast by Global Calgary crime journalist Nancy Hixt is the first podcast in Canada to be picked up by TV. Crime Beat is set to premiere as a television series of the same title on March 7.

(By John Garziglia) For four St. Louis area AM stations, license renewal applications from the year 2012 have remained ungranted. As reported by Radio Ink in “Was A Convicted Felon Running Radio Stations?”, the FCC designated those license renewal applications for hearing in 2019.

That's what Media Monitors says happened on the final broadcast day for 50-year Boston rocker WAAF. Entercom sold the station to EMF last week and the staff said goodbye on Friday.

Eric Johnson is joining ABC Audio as the new Director and Executive Producer of Podcast Programming beginning mid-March. Johnson has been with ABC News for more than 13 years.

Gene Baxter co-hosted the Kevin and Bean morning show on KROQ in LA for 30 years. He retired at the end of 2019 and moved back to the UK, where he was born. Baxter has been hired as the second of Podcast Radio’s "podjocks" – a cross between a DJ and announcer.

Rachel Hubbard has been named the Executive Director of Oklahoma State University’s public radio station KOSU. The news and Triple A station broadcasts throughout central, northern, and northeastern Oklahoma, and portions of Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas.