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In a message to staff following a Wednesday all-hands meeting, The Public's Radio and Rhode Island PBS head Pam Johnston confirmed staff members are being offered voluntary buyouts, with potential layoffs on the table, after a $1.1 million annual funding cut tied to Congress' rescission of CPB funding for 2025.

The FCC is closing in on the biggest ownership shakeup in a generation, and the people writing the checks for broadcast media’s future are already moving. The deals are real, the dollars are in motion, and the conversation is happening at Forecast 2026 on November 12.

One prominent advertising trends analyst believes the proposed acquisition of TEGNA by Nexstar Media Group will not reverse the downward trajectory for core advertising dollars for the industry.

The national broadcast leader behind Retro TV, The Heartland Network, The Action Channel, The Family Channel, and Rev’n, today announced a landmark partnership with Katz Television Group, a division of Katz Media Group.

After reaching its highest diversity levels on record, radio newsrooms experienced a significant setback in workforce diversity during 2025. According to the Radio Television Digital News Association, minority representation dropped nearly five percentage points, erasing gains made since 2023.

Protected by Mediocean, a tool used for what it calls "holistic ad verification," is partnering with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in an effort to strengthen safeguards in the digital media supply chain and "help protect children online."

Media Monitors has announced an expansion of its radio advertising tracking service, increasing national campaign coverage from 106 to 250 markets and committing to permanently store audio files of every ad it captures.

That's another question posed by Borrell Associates, with the potential answers being "Streaming/Connected TV/OTT"; Cable; and Broadcast TV. What was the top answer?

The Fraser Institute finds that loosening restrictions on foreign investment and removing regulations that constrain how firms can compete in Canadian telecommunications and broadcasting industries would benefit Canadians through increased service offerings, improved product quality, and lower prices.

The renewed agreement includes expanded collaboration, increased automation, and ongoing support for station-level activations that deliver measurable results that drive ratings and revenue. Since 2005, the two companies have collaborated to create "high-performing, listener-focused solutions."

How to Black American listeners spend time with radio and other audio mediums? While it's been long known that African Americans overindex when it comes to their on-air and on-demand audio consumption, the latest Audio Today 2025 report from Nielsen Audio codifies fresh data illustrating this point. 

"By 2030, the agencies that win won’t be defined just by the tech they use, but by the culture they build," says the CEO of the 4As. "While AI will undoubtedly reshape how agencies work, culture will determine where people work, who stays, how bold ideas come to life and play a role in how clients evaluate agency relationships."

Here's an intriguing question asked by Borrell Associates to local ad buyers in its Spring 2025 survey: Which is not on advertisers' Top 10 list of most effective media? The choices are Streaming Audio; Direct Mail; Cable TV; and Radio.

If your radio or TV brand isn’t co-creating with Gen Z, it’s falling behind. That's the same situation for CMOs seeking to grow their products or services. "That is not a provocation — it’s a survival strategy," says advertising services firm BeautifulBeast,  which has produced a report that finds Gen Z isn't part of the conversation. Rather, they are the conversation.

Dominant audience measurement and consumer data analytics provider Nielsen has struck a new agreement for audience measurement spanning TV, streaming, audio and cross-platform ad performance with WPP Media.