A US senator's complaint to the FCC accused radio stations of trading airtime for free artist performances. Eighteen months later, that tip has landed iHeartMedia in a settlement, in which the company pledges to overhaul its sponsorship disclosure practices. [read more]
AM/FM radio remains the nation's media reach leader, reaching 87% of US adults on a weekly basis in the first quarter of 2026 and outpacing every other platform Nielsen measured, including smartphone apps, connected TV devices and traditional television. [read more]
Radio listeners can't reliably tell an AI-generated voice from a professional human read, and more than half are okay with a station using AI, per a new blind-listening study that found human and synthetic voices scoring nearly identical on trust, energy, and likability. [read more]
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The same week that programmers and air talent were cut across many iHeartMedia markets, reply comments were already in the docket at the FCC arguing that radio's pattern of layoffs is a case for the status quo when it comes to ownership caps. [read more]
A Massachusetts-based movie content company is suing SiriusXM for trademark infringement, alleging the satellite radio giant's newest logo, debuted in 2023, is confusingly similar to its own, a mark it says it has used continuously since 2022. [read more]
As questions about the ethics of unapproved AI-generated images of real people continue across all areas of broadcasting, Meta's newest AI tool puts the social media leviathan inside the deepfake conversation broadcasters have been trying to get ahead of. [read more]
Just over a month before it would have opened, the FCC has rescheduled its filing window for new noncommercial educational reserved band FM translator station applications after broadcasters argued the original dates fell during a difficult summer stretch. [read more]
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A US senator's complaint to the FCC accused radio stations of trading airtime for free artist performances. Eighteen months later, that tip has landed iHeartMedia in a settlement, in which the company pledges to overhaul its sponsorship disclosure practices.
AM/FM radio remains the nation's media reach leader, reaching 87% of US adults on a weekly basis in the first quarter of 2026 and outpacing every other platform Nielsen measured, including smartphone apps, connected TV devices and traditional television.
Radio listeners can't reliably tell an AI-generated voice from a professional human read, and more than half are okay with a station using AI, per a new blind-listening study that found human and synthetic voices scoring nearly identical on trust, energy, and likability.
The same week that programmers and air talent were cut across many iHeartMedia markets, reply comments were already in the docket at the FCC arguing that radio's pattern of layoffs is a case for the status quo when it comes to ownership caps.
A Massachusetts-based movie content company is suing SiriusXM for trademark infringement, alleging the satellite radio giant's newest logo, debuted in 2023, is confusingly similar to its own, a mark it says it has used continuously since 2022.
As questions about the ethics of unapproved AI-generated images of real people continue across all areas of broadcasting, Meta's newest AI tool puts the social media leviathan inside the deepfake conversation broadcasters have been trying to get ahead of.
Just over a month before it would have opened, the FCC has rescheduled its filing window for new noncommercial educational reserved band FM translator station applications after broadcasters argued the original dates fell during a difficult summer stretch.
