Edison Research recently released its "Share of Ear" report for the first quarter of 2025, and its chock full of useful findings radio industry executives can use to further tout its exceptional reach and ROI for advertisers. For Audacy SVP of Research and Insights Ray Borelli, one finding really stood out.
Bill Spry loves his Classic Rock deep cuts, and created "ClassX Radio" as a listener-supported home of songs from acts ranging from Boomtown Rats and Pure Prairie League to ELO and Joni Mitchell. A spring fund drive is ongoing today. But it is now known that one of the station's broadcast homes is being sold.
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) consumers are driving major shifts in digital commerce, sports engagement, and beauty trends. Why marketers should invest in this consumer group is the focus of a new report from Nielsen released under the direction of SVP of Diverse Insights & Intelligence Stacie de Armas.
In Southeast Mississippi, an AM/FM combo serves the small city of Lucedale. Soon, with the FCC's regulatory blessing, these stations will be owned by someone else.
FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez is partnering with select consumer and civil society organizations for speaking engagements focused on "protecting the rights and freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment and fighting back against this Administration’s ongoing campaign of censorship and control."
Lilly Broadcasting has capitalized on its ability to bring viewers across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands customized channels featuring programming from The CW, CBS and ABC.
Now, Lilly is growing with the acquisition of two properties — a full-power TV station and a LPTV facility — on St. Thomas. It is also purchasing a LPTV property in Puerto Rico.
With no other comments submitted to the FCC for its consideration, the Video Division Chief with the Media Bureau has cleared a path for Gray Media to move forward with a VHF-to-UHF upgrade for a new full-power television station it gained the right to build via a swap with Marquee Broadcasting.
The operators of a LPFM licensed to the Broward Jewish Alliance, targeting Blacks of Caribbean descent with reggae and soca music, has received a Notice of Violation from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau for far exceeding its licensed power maximum, extending its coverage area beyond where it is permitted to serve.
It's an iconic ABC affiliate long known for playing host to presidential debates ahead of the New Hampshire primaries. Now, this Hearst Television property has a new General Manager, and she's a 30-year veteran of the station.
He began his career in 2008 and was most recently the sales strategy and team development leader at Nexstar Media Group-owned WOOD-8 in Grand Rapids. Now, he's taking a top-level sales position at the broadcast TV company controlled by Soohyung Kim's Standard General.
What the future will bring for Cumulus Media may be full of speculation, but investors, analysts and industry observers will get the answer as to how the struggling audio content creation and distribution company performed during the first three months of 2025 on May 1.
YouTube has secured its second consecutive month as the top reported media distributor, eclipsing its previous best share of TV that it set in February, new data from Nielsen show. At the same time, the largest monthly viewership increase among media distributors in March is attributed to Warner Bros. Discovery.
It bills itself as a "predictive advertising company" and as of today has a new "unified, enterprise-class" advertising system using predictive modeling and real-time performance optimizations designed to "transform the omnichannel workflow." The new offering from Cadent comes as it welcomes a new board member.
RadioFX, a mobile app developer for radio stations, has teamed up with one of the world's most famous Country radio stations as it celebrates its 100th anniversary of broadcasting live from Music City USA.
Futuri Media, known for AI-powered media solutions, has brought to market an updated version of its mobile app platform. Mobile v12 promises new customization opportunities, deeper audience engagement, and increased monetization opportunities, the company founded by Daniel Anstandig says.
ENCO is celebrating its presence at the recent 2025 NAB Show, where it showed new developments for aiTrack that opens its dynamic content insertion capabilities for its DAD on-air radio automation system.
Shure is collaborating with Haivision in a way that allows MoveMic wireless microphones to be paired directly to mobile devices within Haivision’s MoJoPro app without the need for an external MoveMic Receiver — and without blocking the USB connector on the mobile device.
Available soon via a board-level upgrade, the Barix LX400 Audio over IP codec now offers SRT support alongside Barix’s standard RTP-based STL firmware and Reflector Evo cloud networking service. Optional SRT encoding is now available, with optional SRT decoding to follow later this year.
The Center for American Rights — the organization that has fueled FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's quest to investigate ABC, NBC and CBS over alleged "news distortion" — wants Carr to investigate the trio of networks "for deliberately misleading the American public" about deported El Salvador-born Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
He hosts the morning shift on a Class B1 FM radio station licensed to a city just west of the Dayton metropolitan area, on the Indiana side of the border. Now, this programmer and on-air host is teaming with his wife to acquire not only this property but its radio siblings serving Richmond.
