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For the first time since June 4, 2024, iHeartMedia shares have fallen below the all-important $1 threshold, dipping 3.6% on Thursday ahead of the holiday weekend for U.S. financial markets. The decline comes as one financial blog in early April presented three reasons to sell "IHRT."

A Sacramento-area broadcast technology company focused on the design, engineering, and manufacturing of RF transmission equipment and systems for radio and television stations has agreed to begin supporting HD Radio, thanks to a newly signed agreement with Xperi Inc.

Is there a Director of Sales or winning Sales Manager deserving of an honor? Have a favorite marketing campaign? Celebrate both by recognizing their attention-grabbing campaigns that create excitement and help drive attention to Hispanic radio and among Hispanic consumers. Hurry! The window closes today.

The individual who has served as VP of Sales for Audacy‘s radio stations in North Texas since January 2024 has been elevated to the role of SVP/Market Manager.

Roger S. Haddon is known across the radio broadcasting industry for his time as a Music Director, as a Program Director and as the President/CEO of the Sunbury Broadcasting Corp., comprised of four radio stations. Haddon has now decided to sell one of those properties.

Who needs to follow a main transmitter rule when boosters can provide a better signal to a more significant population? That's the argument ZoneCasting and MaxxCasting provider GeoBroadcast Services is making to the FCC in a petition tied to its "Delete. Delete. Delete" rule review initiative.

Add a fourth and fifth broadcast media company — and the first radio station ownership groups — to the roster of publicly traded FCC licensees that will be reporting their Q1 2025 financial results on the second Thursday of May.

In September 2024, Tom Birch filed an interference complaint with the FCC against Don Curtis, claiming his Class C3 FM licensed to Clarksville, Va., was being harmed by a 150-watt FM translator designed to expressly serve the cities of Cary and Raleigh, N.C. Birch is now celebrating a victory for his "US 98.3."

She joined BIA Advisory Services as VP of Forecasting and Analysis. As of today, there's a new individual in that role at the media market intelligence firm based in Northern Virginia. What does this mean for Nicole Ovadia? She wants to buy a radio station.

Bill Wachter has engaged in a transaction that will see stations assigned to his own corporation get transferred to the group he serves as President of and is controlled by David Murfin. 

The largest media company superserving Black consumers across the U.S. is moving to its third outside independent accounting firm in under two years, according to a SEC filing made late Wednesday. This sees a switch from EY less than two years after Urban One dumped BDO.

The 2025 NAB Show has come to a close, with a new logo unveiled by the association across a multi-day affair that has seen its registered attendance plummet since its pre-COVID days at the under-construction Las Vegas Convention Center.

The Spring 2025 Radio + Television Business Report quarterly magazine is now available, from our dual kiosk with Radio Ink in the entrance to the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Not at the 2025 NAB Show? Here's your access to our digital version of this full-color 48-page publication.

The use of AI by Radio is already underway. One Phoenix radio station is already delivering AI-produced local newscasts to listeners. Now, this technology is poised to bring radio stations across the nation the ability to bring AI-powered news programming to the air, with website content driving the broadcasts.

How will expected FCC deregulation of broadcast media ownership impact mergers and acquisitions? An Monday afternoon 2025 NAB Show Panel sought to tackle that question in an informal chat featuring a prominent veteran Washington, D.C., attorney; a top media broker; and BIA Advisory Services' Managing Director.