(Mike McVay) August 25 will long be remembered as the day that Dolly Parton died. Having had time to reflect on Dolly's passing, it's clear to me that her death is generating multiple emotions of loss and grief. It also exposes a major weakness of today's radio. [read more]
Ask radio listeners why they still tune in, and one word keeps coming up: connection. That's the throughline of a new qualitative study from Coleman Insights, presented on August 27 as "The Listener Truth," drawing on interviews with ten radio listeners. [read more]
Mark the calendar for June 9 and 10, 2027: Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference is heading back to Phoenix for a second straight year at the Hilton Phoenix Tapatio Cliffs Resort. Click in for a special pre-early bird rate that saves you $300. [read more]
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Six months after his departure from Entravision Communications, Jeffrey Liberman's senior advisory role for Carlos Moncada's MLC Media has grown into Co-CEO and COO across Nueva Network and the Spanish-language broadcaster's affiliated North Atlantic Media. [read more]
The FCC's annual EEO audit is arriving at a politically charged moment for broadcast diversity policy. The Enforcement Bureau sent its 2026 audit letters to randomly selected stations on Friday, days after Disney sued the agency over investigation into its ABC stations over DEI. [read more]
With plenty of time to spare, Beasley Media Group has closed the book on a Nasdaq listing scare that dogged the company since April. The broadcaster has regained compliance with Nasdaq's minimum stockholders' equity requirement after months of debt restructuring. [read more]
The weekslong standoff is over. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit formally issued a mandate on Tuesday, vacating the stay that had clouded Cumulus Media's antitrust injunction against Nielsen and confirming that the order is back in force. [read more]
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(Mike McVay) August 25 will long be remembered as the day that Dolly Parton died. Having had time to reflect on Dolly's passing, it's clear to me that her death is generating multiple emotions of loss and grief. It also exposes a major weakness of today's radio.
Ask radio listeners why they still tune in, and one word keeps coming up: connection. That's the throughline of a new qualitative study from Coleman Insights, presented on August 27 as "The Listener Truth," drawing on interviews with ten radio listeners.
Mark the calendar for June 9 and 10, 2027: Radio Ink's Hispanic Radio Conference is heading back to Phoenix for a second straight year at the Hilton Phoenix Tapatio Cliffs Resort. Click in for a special pre-early bird rate that saves you $300.
Six months after his departure from Entravision Communications, Jeffrey Liberman's senior advisory role for Carlos Moncada's MLC Media has grown into Co-CEO and COO across Nueva Network and the Spanish-language broadcaster's affiliated North Atlantic Media.
The FCC's annual EEO audit is arriving at a politically charged moment for broadcast diversity policy. The Enforcement Bureau sent its 2026 audit letters to randomly selected stations on Friday, days after Disney sued the agency over investigation into its ABC stations over DEI.
With plenty of time to spare, Beasley Media Group has closed the book on a Nasdaq listing scare that dogged the company since April. The broadcaster has regained compliance with Nasdaq's minimum stockholders' equity requirement after months of debt restructuring.
The weekslong standoff is over. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit formally issued a mandate on Tuesday, vacating the stay that had clouded Cumulus Media's antitrust injunction against Nielsen and confirming that the order is back in force.
