Radio News

For NPR listeners across the Sacramento market, the fiscal health and future of the stations offering Classical and spoken word programming are in a particularly dire fiscal situation. If the loss of federal dollars wasn't enough, CapRadio's ex-GM has been charged with embezzlement, grand theft and forgery.

The agenda for the 2026 Hispanic Radio Conference is firming up, and this year's affair signals a sharp focus on innovation and strategy across one of broadcasting’s hottest sectors.  The conference begins with a keynote address that challenges traditional thinking about how Hispanic broadcasters compete and connect.

A former home of a Polish-language Full Service radio brand serving Chicago has been sold. And, in a sign that kHz-band radio is imperiled in even the largest of markets, the final purchase price is in the tens of thousands of dollars — rather than hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The FM sports station serving Portland, Ore., and owned by Audacy that recently replaced a Hot Adult Contemporary brand has become the new flagship radio home for the local Major League Soccer club.

It's a transaction that first gained radio industry attention in August 2025. Now, the deal is complete, putting K-LOVE in Milwaukee-Racine with the acquisition of two FM radio stations that are shifting from respective commercial formats to non-commercial Christian music brands.

Townsquare Media has announced when it will release its Q4 2025 financial results and subsequently hold a conference call for investors and financial analysts, during which it will discuss the "local first" media company's performance and 2026 projections.

Last week, it became known that RCS Sound Software SVP of Asia and Pacific Keith Williams would retire on March 31 after more than two decades with the iHeartMedia-owned enterprise benefiting radio programming leaders around the globe. Now, it has become known that RCS's President/CEO has decided to retire, too.

Paperwork submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval has formally disclosed the amount of money Audacy Inc. will be receiving from its sale of a Westerly, R.I.-licensed Class B FM station that has served as a simulcast partner of Sports Talk WEEI Radio in Boston.

Super Hi-Fi, known for its radio industry AI-powered operating system, has entered into a strategic partnership with the rapidly growing owner of broadcast stations led by CEO Jeff Warshaw. As part of that arrangement with Connoisseur Media, Warshaw will join the Super Hi-Fi Board of Directors.

On October 13, 2025, an app quietly arrived in the Microsoft Store for a self-described "lightweight, elegant" radio player — one that lives in the system tray of a Windows-powered computer. Now, thanks to a blogger and word-of-mouth, this tiny internet hub for AM and FM stations in gaining greater notice.

As first reported by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink, Maire Mason is taking a key New York leadership role at the company that's parent to WBLS and "HOT 97," as well as the Estrella Media Spanish-language multimedia company. She's inbound from Spanish Broadcasting System's N.Y. station group.

A Hearing Designation Order has been sent to the parties involved in a transfer of control of a trio of El Paso radio stations serving Spanish-language audiences in the West Texas city — a matter with a tale akin to a telenovela script. At issue: an unauthorized LMA, an undisclosed loan and family shenanigans.

The rapid pace that defined Cumulus Media’s antitrust fight against Nielsen throughout the fourth quarter of 2025 is giving way to something far less dramatic, but far more consequential: a litigation calendar that will now be defined in months, if not years.

Operations of Cumulus Media's radio stations serving Kansas' state capital are being consolidated with the publicly traded company's Kansas City properties, located in a corporate office building in the suburb of Mission, Ks.

New Hampshire's state House of Representatives on Wednesday conducted a public hearing designed to gather input on a bill introduced in December that would create a temporary local tax credit for newspapers, radio stations and Hearst Television's ABC affiliate serving the Granite State.