Good Morning! Here's The Pulse For Tuesday, Oct 6

Radio Broadcasting

Programming Tweaked: Urban One Dallas is realigning programming across its three Dallas-Fort Worth stations, returning Rickey Smiley to mornings at KBFB (97.9 The Beat), shifting lineups at KKDA (K104), and giving 105.7 KRNB a new music direction. MORE

K-Love Closes: K-Love Inc. has closed its $2 million purchase of the 94.5 FM signal in Gilroy, California, from Connoisseur Media, completing a deal announced in July and adding a full-power outlet for its Christian programming in San Jose. MORE

NPR Host:  Mary Louise Kelly is stepping down as a host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” after 25 years at the network and is also leaving the national security podcast “Sources & Methods.” MORE

Media Industry

Trump Pivots: President Donald Trump said Monday that the television ads praising him and his agenda will no longer be paid for with taxpayer money. He wrote that he will instead cover them himself and with money raised for MAGA Inc., his super PAC, after days of bipartisan criticism over the government’s role in funding the spots. MORE

Skydance Sets leadership: Paramount Skydance on Monday confirmed the leadership structure of the combined company ahead of the expected close this week of its $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery MORE

Staffers Relieved:  Mark Thompson will remain chairman and editor in chief of CNN after Skydance completes its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery this week, most likely on Tuesday. MORE

U-S News

Drone Plot: The U.S. abruptly moved a dozen B-1 bomber aircraft from a U.K. military base because of urgent concerns about a potentially complex drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The planned attack was part of a multifaceted Iranian plot to target the aircraft and kill personnel at RAF Fairford, including American pilots, the officials said.

Military Execution: President Donald Trump approved a firing‑squad execution for former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the convicted Fort Hood shooter, marking the first U.S. military execution since 1961.

RIP: Jim Bakker, the former PTL televangelist who built a multimillion-dollar evangelical broadcasting empire and later fell from grace due to sex and fraud scandals, died at age 86. MORE