Outsiders hear "small market radio" and picture fewer listeners, fewer dollars, maybe a stop on the way to somewhere bigger. The people actually running those markets know the stakes are hardly minuscule, because you can't fake local in a small town. [read more]
Annual employment reports are now gone from the FCC's rulebook. The Media Bureau ordered the removal of the requirement that stations report workforce race, ethnicity, and gender data, bringing federal regulations in line with a Fifth Circuit decision that nullified the rule. [read more]
Any program director who has fielded angry calls after a morning show shakeup will recognize the latest podcast research. The Podcast Study 2026 finds audiences tune in for the host, forgive a vacation, but would consider walking away if that voice left for good. [read more]
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Could an all-Republican FCC legally do business? Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) doesn't think so, and he has asked Commissioner Anna Gomez, the agency's lone Democrat, for her legal opinion as speculation grows that she could be removed once a third Republican commissioner is seated. [read more]
Starting Thursday, Birmingham's public radio newsroom will stop saying Gulf of Mexico. University of Alabama at Birmingham-licensed 90.3 WBHM says a new Alabama law requiring state employees to use Gulf of America extends to its journalists. [read more]
Two family-built New York broadcasters are coming together. Pamal Broadcasting, rooted in Albany since 1987, has agreed to acquire Ed Levine's Galaxy Media and its Syracuse and Utica stations, stretching Pamal's reach from the Hudson Valley into Central New York. [read more]
Support for press freedom runs wide but not deep, according to new Pew Research Center findings, and the fault lines matter for broadcasters. When accuracy and a free press collide, Americans lean toward accuracy, and many say government should be able to order some stories removed. [read more]
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Outsiders hear "small market radio" and picture fewer listeners, fewer dollars, maybe a stop on the way to somewhere bigger. The people actually running those markets know the stakes are hardly minuscule, because you can't fake local in a small town.
Annual employment reports are now gone from the FCC's rulebook. The Media Bureau ordered the removal of the requirement that stations report workforce race, ethnicity, and gender data, bringing federal regulations in line with a Fifth Circuit decision that nullified the rule.
Any program director who has fielded angry calls after a morning show shakeup will recognize the latest podcast research. The Podcast Study 2026 finds audiences tune in for the host, forgive a vacation, but would consider walking away if that voice left for good.
Starting Thursday, Birmingham's public radio newsroom will stop saying Gulf of Mexico. University of Alabama at Birmingham-licensed 90.3 WBHM says a new Alabama law requiring state employees to use Gulf of America extends to its journalists.
Two family-built New York broadcasters are coming together. Pamal Broadcasting, rooted in Albany since 1987, has agreed to acquire Ed Levine's Galaxy Media and its Syracuse and Utica stations, stretching Pamal's reach from the Hudson Valley into Central New York.
Support for press freedom runs wide but not deep, according to new Pew Research Center findings, and the fault lines matter for broadcasters. When accuracy and a free press collide, Americans lean toward accuracy, and many say government should be able to order some stories removed.
