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- Northeast Ohio AM Radio Station Goes Silent
WCUE’s tight directional pattern, shown for its daytime pattern. From the RadioLand app. In northeast Ohio, a longtime AM station has gone silent after owner Family Stations sold the property for its six-tower antenna array. WCUE(AM) 1150 is licensed to Cuyahoga Falls. It broadcast from a 38-acre site just outside the boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, operating 5 kW daytime and 500 watts at night. Family Stations filed a special temporary authority with the FCC on May 8, citing that the tower site was sold due to financial considerations. The network is currently deciding on the next steps for the license, a spokesperson told Radio World. Family Stations sold the property to Helen Scott Custom Builders for $850,000, according to Summit County records. Two weeks later, the property was transferred to Park Ridge Preserve, which is based in Barberton. WCUE signed on in February 1950 according to Cleveland Classic Media as a daytime-only station licensed to Akron. In 1963, the license was assigned to Cuyahoga Falls and from 1969 into the 70s, WCUE aired a Top 40 format, according to Wikipedia. Owner Sackett Broadcasting donated WCUE to Family Radio of Oakland, Calif., in 1986. It had functioned as a repeater for the Family Radio Network since 2002. [Do you receive the Radio World SmartBrief newsletter each weekday morning? We invite you to sign up here.] The post Northeast Ohio AM Radio Station Goes Silent appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Jimmy Kimmel Urges Viewers to Never Watch CBS Again After Colbert Finale Airs
Jimmy Kimmel urged his viewers to never watch CBS again after the Thursday finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as he reminded his audience that his own show, which airs opposite Colbert’s on ABC, would go dark for the night. At the beginning of his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Wednesday, the host praised Colbert’s 11-year run on the network, having taken over the show from David Letterman in 2015, and expressed solidarity with The Late Show crew. “We have a lot to get into, but before we do a quick programming note. We will be off tomorrow night out of respect for our colleague and friend Steven Colbert and the writers, producers, and staff and crew at The Late Show whose final show on CBS airs opposite ours,” Kimmel began. In a jab at CBS executives who canceled the show last year, he continued, “I think you know how I feel about the fact that they are being pushed out. I hope the people who did the pushing feel ashamed of themselves tonight, although I know they probably won’t.” “But that being said, I think it is most important to congratulate Stephen and the team at The Late Show for all the great work over the last five years and all the great work you will continue to do in other venues. I have no doubt,” he said. “Everyone at that show has always been very gracious to us. We never felt like we were competing against them, it was nothing like the old days of late-night. I always loved being on Stephen’s show. I loved having him here on ours. I hope we’re able to do that again. I hope he comes to visit as many times as possible.” But Kimmel’s most striking remark came as he encouraged audiences to tune in to Colbert’s farewell broadcast one final time before boycotting CBS as a network entirely. “I will be watching tomorrow night, I hope that those of you who watch our show will also tune in to CBS for the last time. Don’t ever watch it again,” he said. “But watch tomorrow night to wish Stephen and our friends at The Late Show a fond farewell.” Watch above via ABC.The post Jimmy Kimmel Urges Viewers to Never Watch CBS Again After Colbert Finale Airs first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Bruce Springsteen Torches President and Ellisons Before Performing Anti-Trump An...Bruce Springsteen used Stephen Colbert’s second-to-last Late Show episode to launch a blistering jab at President Donald Trump, who he said “can’t take a joke,” as well as Paramount owner David Ellison for choosing to “kiss” the president’s “ass” on Wednesday. Appearing on The Late Show’s penultimate episode, the rock icon began his act by trashing the cancellation of the long-running late-night program as part of a broader climate of political pressure surrounding media companies and Trump critics. “I am here in support tonight for Stephen because you’re the first guy in America who’s lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke,” Springsteen said to loud applause inside the Ed Sullivan Theater, laughing to himself. The singer then directly called out billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison and his son David Ellison, owner of Paramount, CBS’s parent company. “And because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want,” Springsteen continued. “Anyway, Stephen, these are small-minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this country are supposed to be about. This is for you.” Springsteen then performed “Streets of Minneapolis,” his anti-Trump anthem about the administration’s immigration crackdowns, protests in the city, and the killing of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by “federal thugs.” The song’s lyrics lambast “King Trump” and, what it calls, the “dirty lies” of the policy’s architect Stephen Miller. Different slogans were projected onto an American flag backdrop throughout the performance, including “RESISTANCE” and “TRUTH.” The final episode of The Late Show is set to air on May 21 after CBS announced its cancellation last year. The network said that it would be ending the show’s multi-decade run for financial reasons, although critics have pointed out that the cancellation came after Colbert criticized parent company Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump, which it finalized while seeking federal approval for a merger. Watch above via CBS.The post Bruce Springsteen Torches President and Ellisons Before Performing Anti-Trump Anthem on Colbert’s Penultimate Show first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Shamrock Capital Closes Over $810 Million Fund for Entertainment Ip
For publishers, songwriters and rights holders, Shamrock Capital’s latest capital raise is a clear signal that entertainment IP continues to attract serious long-term money. The Los Angeles-based investment firm said Wednesday that it closed a fourth fund with more than $810 million in committed capital, adding fresh firepower to a [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - Democratic Governor Censured by Own Party for Freeing Trump Ally Convicted in El...
AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File The Colorado Democratic Party censured Governor Jared Polis (D) on Wednesday in a stinging rebuke of his decision to grant Tina Peters early release from prison. Peters, a former Mesa County clerk, was convicted in Colorado state court in 2024 on seven counts, including four felony charges, after she conspired to breach her county’s voting systems in 2021. She was sentenced to nine years in prison. “I’m convinced you would do it all over again if you could,” the judge told her at sentencing. “You’re as defiant as a defendant as this court has ever seen.” Last week, Polis granted Peters clemency and said she will be released on June 1, after President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded she be freed. Peters was convicted after the jury found she conspired with associates of election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell in a harebrained attempt to prove the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. In justifying granting her clemency, the governor has made several misleading claims about Peters’ conviction, prompting a lengthy fact check from CNN. On Wednesday, the Colorado Democratic Party voted overwhelmingly to censure Polis. “This is not a small policy disagreement at all whatsoever,” Zane Schichtel, a Democrat from Montezuma County, told The Colorado Sun. “I think it is a direct rebuke of the principles of accountability and election integrity that uphold our democracy, and as such, we need to treat it for the serious matter that it is.” Trump had repeatedly called on Polis to commute Peters’ sentence. In December, the president went so far as to grant her a “pardon,” which he cannot do because she was convicted of state crimes, and not federal ones. “Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the “crime” of demanding Honest Elections,” Trump posted on Truth Social at the time. “Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”The post Democratic Governor Censured by Own Party for Freeing Trump Ally Convicted in Election Scheme first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - Trump Administration Overpaid for DHS Warehouses Owned by President’s Allies: ...
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The Department of Homeland Security spent millions in taxpayer funds to purchase property for warehouses owned by investors with close ties to President Donald Trump, a new report claims. DHS spent $1 billion in 2026 to buy warehouses to house detained immigrants. In multiple cases, the Department paid a price far higher than a warehouse’s market valuation, often on properties that had been up for sale for years, data from activist group Project Salt Box showed. Some of these properties were financed with bank debt, meaning their purchase equated to those loans being paid off. “In other words, some of these warehouse sales are effectively acting as a vehicle for these institutions to sell off otherwise distressed assets and profit from taxpayer-funded investment,” a report on the data from More Perfect Union reads. The report gives multiple specific examples of instances where DHS paid up to a thousand percent markup on warehouses, including one Pennsylvania property bought at double the estimated market value owned by Blue Owl Capital. The investment company gave large donations to Republican congressional groups, while one of its directors was previously on the board of one of Trump’s companies. “ICE didn’t necessarily want to be using warehouses,” said Salt Box’s Michael Wriston. “The plan came from folks very close to the White House who were sitting on properties that were causing them losses every year, and the decision was to buy them at taxpayer expense.” More Perfect Union cites at least thirty-three members of the president’s administration who publicly reported investing in the funds under Blue Owl or the agency that brokers the purchasing deals, with the president himself owning around $5 million in Blue Owl. Blue Owl did not respond to the organization’s request for comment. NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money. We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price. It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it. pic.twitter.com/MmUDL9kFsW — More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 20, 2026 Goldman Sachs also owned or controlled loans for properties purchased by DHS, including one that the bank refinanced only months before its sale to the department. Former employees of Goldman, like former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, have frequently held roles in both of Trump’s administrations.… [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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