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Chicago Public Media, which owns WBEZ-FM, the local NPR affiliate, announced Monday it completed a deal to buy the Chicago Sun-Times, the punchy tabloid with roots that stretch back to the mid-19th century. Final terms were not disclosed.

Beginning his career at small radio stations and then moving into television as well, Emery was probably best known for his work on the Nashville Network cable channel. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007. He was 88.

Margaret Sullivan: The veteran host used a “truth sandwich” approach to counter the former president’s election lies. The idea is to avoid magnifying lies; and the technique is to surround false statements with established truths before and after, thus blunting the effect of what can amount to propaganda.

Unflinchingly conservative, wildly partisan, bombastically self-promoting and larger than life, Limbaugh galvanized listeners for more than 30 years with his talent for vituperation and sarcasm. He was 70.

President Biden, seeking ways to advance his agenda in a cluttered media landscape, is set to revive a presidential tradition that faded under his predecessor: the weekly radio address. The Biden version is not exactly just a man and his microphone. White House press aides said that some installments could follow a traditional president-talks-to-the-people format, but that they were also planning to pair Biden with everyday Americans and other guests, recreating the informal style of popular podcasts. “We expect it to take on a variety of forms,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said Friday.

The NextGen TV service will deliver TV and radio to anyone with a NextGen television set connected to the web.

The FCC has given permission for the license transfer, and the IRS has granted tax-exempt status, Vermont PBS and VPR announced. The television station and radio network will operate independently until July.

Donations to the public broadcaster went up sharply after the president said it was “a very good question” to ask why it still existed.

KYW-AM and WCAU-WWSI join forces to create what the companies call the region’s “largest and most experienced broadcast news and weather team.”

Don Imus survived drug and alcohol woes, a raunchy appearance before President Clinton and several firings during his long career behind the microphone (and MSNBC’s cameras). But he was vilified and eventually fired after describing a women’s college basketball team as “nappy headed hos.” His radio show, once home to presidential hopefuls, political pundits and platinum-selling musicians, was yanked eight days later by CBS Radio.

The FCC’s Media Bureau is seeking comment on whether analog LPTV stations should be able to continue to program an analog radio service after the deadline to switch to digital.

Cox Enterprises will retain a minority in the new company substantially owned by Apollo Global Management.