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Nearly 1000 Celebrate PBS Kids Day at WKAR

Nearly 1,000 community members of all ages gathered recently to celebrate PBS KIDS® Day with WKAR. Families across mid-Michigan came together for the event, hosted at the WKAR studios on the campus of Michigan State University on January 25.

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Midwest Communications Closes on WQXC/WZUU

On February 4, Midwest Communications closed on its acquisition of WQXC-FM (Allegan) and WZUU-FM (Mattawan) from Forum Communications. The deal, filed in September was approved by the FCC in December.

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FCC Enforcement Advisory Warns of Payola Concerns in Coercing Bands to Play at Broadcast Station Events with Threats of Decreased Airplay – and Reminds All Broadcasters, Radio and TV, of Sponsorship Identification Requirements

David Oxenford

When in January I offered my predictions as to the issues that the new FCC would be considering this year, payola and musical artists complaining of being coerced to play for free at radio station concerts or other events was not on the bingo card.  That changed early this past week

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Legendary Detroit Reporter Al Allen Dies

2021 Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame Inductee Al Allen, who retired from WJBK-TV in 2012.

Al Allen, a Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame honoree who worked in broadcast news in Detroit for over 50 years, passed away this past Tuesday (2/4) at the age of 79.  Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, his family moved to Detroit and he started reporting at Mumford High School for the student in-house broadcast, “Spotlight on Mumford.”

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Roy Moore Rejoins WRSR-FM as Program Director

This week, Krol Communications Inc. has announced announces that it has appointed Roy Moore as Program Director for its WRSR-FM (Flint/103.9 The Fox). This marks a return to Krol Communications by Moore, after having taken a pause from radio to pursue other opportunities.

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