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One of the first staff members of what started out as National Public Radio and is today simply NPR has died at the age of 87. In the words of her son Josh, Susan Stamberg was "a true humanitarian" who believed in the power of great journalism. "Her life's work was connection, through ideas and culture."

It was once Oldies as "XTRA 104" and after that was "Z104" in an era of the Spice Girls and TLC. Now, WPRS-FM has entered a new era by adopting a Tropical presentation, with reggaetón and bachata beats debuting Thursday.

"Radio doesn’t need to accept its demise," writes Ernesto Aguilar

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Content from Free Live Sports will be accessible in BMWs with Xperi’s video platform

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As part of its ongoing “Radio Works” initiative, the RAB is presenting a live webinar on October 22 that seeks to provide radio sellers with insights into the current healthcare landscape and the factors influencing local healthcare advertisers’ marketing decisions.

The CBS News & Stations property in the Dallas-Fort Worth market branded as "CBS News Texas" on Tuesday morning brought to viewers for the first time its first local newscast that uses the virtual reality and augmented reality technology already put to the test in other markets, including San Francisco.

By-invite demos from one Woodinville, Wash.-based tech company during the NAB Show New York next week could offer a glimpse of the stateside possibilities of a technology already moving forward in Europe. It comes thanks to the latest endeavor from Vern Fotheringham.

A key ATSC 3.0 implementation firm has completed the configuration of the encoding system for New Mexico PBS powered by Ateme technology with live AI-fueled language translation for its NEXTGEN TV broadcast signal.

Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Inc. and the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation (NABLF) have shared who has been selected as the 2026 mentee for their joint MIW NABLF LAUNCH Program. It's a Broadcast Operations Manager for Townsquare Media in Texas.

Music is fragile, so handle it with care

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With hopeful deregulation, ATSC 3.0’s continuing rollout, the AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act awaiting a Congressional vote and those ever-pesky microeconomic challenges, what has this meant for the broker community? Richard A. Foreman, the veteran media broker, shares his thoughts in this conversation, presented by dot.FM.

On June 30, 2020, iHeartMedia brought to life a 24/7 nationally distributed audio services “dedicated to providing an objective, accurate and trusted source of continual news coverage with a Black voice and perspective.” Come Nov. 1, BIN: Black Information Network will be offered to non-owned stations via syndication.

In June, a privately held owner of radio and TV stations signed off on an asset purchase agreement that would give it ownership of a heritage adult-oriented Top 40 station in Wilmington, Del., along with an AM station in the market and four other FMs across the region. That deal has just closed.

A trio of New Orleans-based federal appeals judges has affirmed a National Labor Relations Board bargaining order, solidifying its claim that the nation's largest single licensee of broadcast television stations did not engage in fair negotiations with a union organization representing employees at its Denver properties.

Remarks of FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty to the Everything Policy Program at Mobile World Congress on October 15, 2025

Just days after introducing an eye-opening end to broadcast license terms for radio stations, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released a notice with a comment window that will help it work "on concrete ways to identify, prevent and eliminate barriers to accessibility."

A new all-Sports offering on a 250-watt FM translator serving greater Cleveland arrived in early September, replacing a "throwback" hip-hop presentation focused on tracks from some 25 years ago. Now, iHeartMedia's stations in the market are getting supercharged, as well as that mini-FM.

Rule change also allows AM stations to simulcast content on a trial basis

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OIA, WCB, and EB direct HKT and its wholly-owned subsidiaries to show cause why the Commission should not initiate a proceeding to revoke their domestic section 214 authority and revoke and terminate HKT's international section 214 authority

FCC Sent CCP-Controlled Telco Order to Show Cause why Commission Should Not Revoke its International and Domestic Telecom Authority