As budget cuts shrink on-air talent rosters across the country, new Katz Radio Group research makes the cost of that tradeoff clear: personality is a massive driver of radio loyalty, and listener trust in those hosts is the mechanism behind ad effectiveness. [read more]
The audience that advertisers most want to reach might just be listening to radio on their televisions. A new study from Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights puts that finding inside a broader portrait of podcast consumers as boundaries between audio platforms blur. [read more]
The 98.3 WSUL Heart-A-Thon has distributed $75,000 across six organizations in New York's lower Hudson Valley for its 48th year, with Bold Gold Media continuing its role as the fundraiser's broadcast home as the event approaches a half-century of community giving. [read more]
Radio Ink wants to know who's setting the pace in programming, and we're taking nominations to find out. Click in to make your submission for our Best Program Directors in Radio honors for 2026 before Wednesday, June 22 at 8pm ET/5pm PT. [read more]
(Loyd Ford) Summer has a reputation as a slower sales season full of vacations, shifting schedules, and distracted decision-makers. Which is exactly why it's the best time for your sales team to stop thinking like individuals and start thinking like a revenue task force. [read more]
(Jeffrey Hedquist) Your client has given you a message to convey to the masses: “Buy our stuff.” Lovely. But your audience may not be on board with that directive. After all, they’ve heard that from every other ad on the air. But they may respond when you twist the approach. [read more]
Audacy Philadelphia morning host Coop, from BIG 98.1 (WOGL), has raised over $25,000 for the Child Life Services Department at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia while walking more than 60 miles over five days during his second annual "Coop's Miles for Miracles." [read more]
The Broadcasters Foundation of America has added two to its board: the producer who has guided one of television's longest-running programs and a digital audio executive who helped shape content strategy for one of America's largest radio operators. [read more]
A signal serving the gateway to the Adirondacks has come full circle. Border Media CEO Ricki Lee sold 93.5 Lake FM (WLGR) to Todd Nixon's Sticks Media in early 2025 and has now taken it back after Nixon defaulted on the promissory note that financed the deal. [read more]
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Gospel artist Damita Chandler is taking her radio show to new ears. Damita Uncut, produced by Anexus Media Enterprises and distributed by FCB Faith Media, will air on FCB Faith Radio 107.3 HD2 (WNWV) across Northeast Ohio starting June 21. [read more]
Dave Magnum was 13 years old the first time he went on the air. Fifty years later, he's in the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, and so are three of his peers, inducted Thursday night at the WBA Summer Conference in Lake Geneva. [read more]
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As budget cuts shrink on-air talent rosters across the country, new Katz Radio Group research makes the cost of that tradeoff clear: personality is a massive driver of radio loyalty, and listener trust in those hosts is the mechanism behind ad effectiveness.
The audience that advertisers most want to reach might just be listening to radio on their televisions. A new study from Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights puts that finding inside a broader portrait of podcast consumers as boundaries between audio platforms blur.
The 98.3 WSUL Heart-A-Thon has distributed $75,000 across six organizations in New York's lower Hudson Valley for its 48th year, with Bold Gold Media continuing its role as the fundraiser's broadcast home as the event approaches a half-century of community giving.
Radio Ink wants to know who's setting the pace in programming, and we're taking nominations to find out. Click in to make your submission for our Best Program Directors in Radio honors for 2026 before Wednesday, June 22 at 8pm ET/5pm PT.
(Loyd Ford) Summer has a reputation as a slower sales season full of vacations, shifting schedules, and distracted decision-makers. Which is exactly why it's the best time for your sales team to stop thinking like individuals and start thinking like a revenue task force.
(Jeffrey Hedquist) Your client has given you a message to convey to the masses: “Buy our stuff.” Lovely. But your audience may not be on board with that directive. After all, they’ve heard that from every other ad on the air. But they may respond when you twist the approach.
Audacy Philadelphia morning host Coop, from BIG 98.1 (WOGL), has raised over $25,000 for the Child Life Services Department at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia while walking more than 60 miles over five days during his second annual "Coop's Miles for Miracles."
The Broadcasters Foundation of America has added two to its board: the producer who has guided one of television's longest-running programs and a digital audio executive who helped shape content strategy for one of America's largest radio operators.
A signal serving the gateway to the Adirondacks has come full circle. Border Media CEO Ricki Lee sold 93.5 Lake FM (WLGR) to Todd Nixon's Sticks Media in early 2025 and has now taken it back after Nixon defaulted on the promissory note that financed the deal.
Gospel artist Damita Chandler is taking her radio show to new ears. Damita Uncut, produced by Anexus Media Enterprises and distributed by FCB Faith Media, will air on FCB Faith Radio 107.3 HD2 (WNWV) across Northeast Ohio starting June 21.
Dave Magnum was 13 years old the first time he went on the air. Fifty years later, he's in the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, and so are three of his peers, inducted Thursday night at the WBA Summer Conference in Lake Geneva.
