In a move that differentiates the organization from many of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies and the NAB, the leading advocacy group representing Black-owned station owners has asked the FCC not to weaken the rules establishing "subcaps" for both AM and FM radio in the U.S.
A legendary New York Hip-Hop personality. A longtime West Coast AM talk duo. A Rock & Roll Hall of Famer. They are just three among this year's 24 nominees for entry into the Radio Hall of Fame.
In May 2023, Karen McCrary Mitchell was named Market President for two iHeartMedia markets in the Mid-South. Now, a successor has been named, taking control of the company's radio stations in those two locales.
While digital dollars are on the rise, macroeconomic issues continue to cloud Cumulus Media's P&L sheet while the end of a partnership with The Daily Wire — producer of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and founded by the conservative talk host a decade ago — also impacted the bottom line.
It's a FM broadcasting buccaneer in the Bay State, but it's being investigated by the New York office of the FCC Enforcement Bureau. And, its landlord has just been handed a Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting — an official warning to shut down or else.
There's another tweak to just how and when the Marconi Radio Awards will be bestowed upon their respective honorees, and it sees a shift outside of the NAB Show New York annual conference — an event that was eyed as a locale that could win over former attendees of the former annual Radio Show.
It's a city etched into the fabric of American history and today home to an AM radio station with an FM translator branded as "Happy 93.7." Soon, these facilities and a nearby Class A FM covering the Harrisburg and York, Pa., markets, will be woven into the expansive network of noncommercial Christian Contemporary stations under the K-LOVE banner.
The flow of exiting Chief Executive Officers slowed in March, while staying flat from February in the Media sector. That's welcome news as the first three months of 2025 resulted in record CEO turnover, new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas show.
What happens when you fail to pay your regulatory fees associated with an AM radio station for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2023, and it's nearly halfway through 2025? You pay up or show cause as to why you can't. A station owner in Kentucky has 60 days to do just that.
Renew Group Private Ltd. has fully divested its stake in audio content creation and distribution company Cumulus Media — shedding the shares just ahead of an exit from the Nasdaq Global Market exchange and shift to the OTC Markets.
An ex parte filing from the NAB in response to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative has taken aim at two groups representing the recorded music industry, accusing them for engaging in "copy-paste advocacy" and "rent-seeking" to block deregulation for local radio operators.
It was the first item on a lengthy agenda that also considered17 bills ranging from "fog observations and geographic forecasting" to the Deploying American Blockchains Act. Now, it's very clear that there'll be no blocking the advancement of President Trump's nomination of Olivia Trusty to serve as a FCC Commissioner.
He spent 24 years at Amazon, and is the prime architect (no pun intended) of the digital streaming expansion into on-demand entertainment and live sports, building Prime Video, Amazon Studios, Amazon Music and Amazon's advertising and marketplace divisions. Now, he's taking over Tennis Channel.
Charlie Grisham has become one of the nation's most outspoken advocates for local television consumption and advertising. Now he has a message for skittish local businesses: 'Big Tech' is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising, so they should follow their lead because local TV works.
It's a provider of TV transmitters, ATSC 3.0 products, translator, exciters and gap fillers at all TV bands and power levels and was in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center across the 2025 NAB Show showing of its wares. Now, it is welcoming a Sales Manager who will cover the eastern U.S.
Vizrt, known for its real-time graphics and live production tools, has brought to market a dedicated audio connectivity and monitoring technology product. Introducing Viz Connect Audio, which gives users the ability to manage any and all NDI sources on a network, both visually and aurally.
Avid has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to deliver a cloud-based production framework that helps television production companies address including rising costs, reduced budgets, and increasingly complex workflows.
Tom and Cheryl Hodgins saved it. Now, they're spinning it to a company that seeks to use it to bring Sports Talk programming to listeners in coastal Oregon. An asset purchase agreement with the details has been filed with the Commission for its regulatory approval.
The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts; MANA – A National Latina Organization; the National Urban League and the Hispanic Federation have teamed up to pen a letter to the FCC urging modernization of its broadcast ownership rules.
The owner of a Boston-area building found to be the home of an unlicensed radio station has received a "Notice of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting" warning them of a potential fine for harboring the unlicensed FM station using 107.5 MHz.
