For Mental Health Awareness Month, Radio Ink brought together three experts with roots in mental health and the broadcast industry for our May issue, covering the hard questions in radio. What they had to say went well beyond what fit on the page. [read more]
US Hispanics hold $4.4 trillion in purchasing power. The ad industry is sending roughly 4% of total spend its way. Day one of the 2026 Hispanic Radio Conference in Phoenix made the case, session by session, that the gap is possibly the biggest opportunity in radio. [read more]
FCC policy shifts, Nielsen audience data, and firsthand revenue case studies made a compelling case on Day Two of Hispanic Radio Conference 2026 that the structural problems threatening Hispanic radio are most certainly not product problems. [read more]
Celebrating the Industry's Best: Daily InRadio Ink Nominations for the Best Program Directors in Radio open tomorrow! Think your PD or Brand Manager deserves national recognition? Your chance to recognize them comes in Monday's headlines.
"No broadcaster has a 'right' to use the public spectrum," is the blunt message that the FCC Media Bureau delivered on Thursday in a public notice that has only inflamed the ongoing debate over public interest that has defined the FCC under Chairman Brendan Carr. [read more]
In celebration of the legacy of the founding father of Spanish-language radio in the United States, Phoenix welcomed Hispanic radio's finest on Wednesday evening as Radio Ink named the 2026 Medallas de Cortez winners from a nationally nominated field at HRC. [read more]
A major streaming platform's latest AI feature is doing double duty as regulatory ammunition for Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw, who is seeking to get radio's ownership caps deregulated in the FCC's 2022 Quadrennial Review proceeding. [read more]
The argument for loosening broadcast ownership rules is well-documented in FCC filings and NAB talking points. Attorney David Oxenford frames it differently: through the eyes of a local advertiser trying to reach every Country music listener in a single market. [read more]
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