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Thanks to the Congressionally passed PIRATE Act, the FCC is empowered to go after landlords of facilities found to harbor broadcast buccaneers. On Friday, Enforcement Bureau Region One Regional Director David Dombrowski did just that, as the pirate radio operator in question has ignored a forfeiture notice.

Tune to a hip-hop radio station to the west of Sydney, Australia, during the midday hours each weekday, and you'll hear "Thy." There's just one catch. There is no "Thy" — and there never has been over the six months this AI-generated air talent has been on the Australian Radio Network (ARN) station.

He's described as a "dynamic husband and father" and is known across the radio broadcasting industry as the longtime leader of two groups of stations — one in Austin and the other in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. Now, many are pausing to remember Bob Sinclair Sr., who died April 20 at the age of 79.

Edison Research recently released its "Share of Ear" report for the first quarter of 2025, and its chock full of useful findings radio industry executives can use to further tout its exceptional reach and ROI for advertisers. For Audacy SVP of Research and Insights Ray Borelli, one finding really stood out.

Bill Spry loves his Classic Rock deep cuts, and created "ClassX Radio" as a listener-supported home of songs from acts ranging from Boomtown Rats and Pure Prairie League to ELO and Joni Mitchell. A spring fund drive is ongoing today. But it is now known that one of the station's broadcast homes is being sold.

What the future will bring for Cumulus Media may be full of speculation, but investors, analysts and industry observers will get the answer as to how the struggling audio content creation and distribution company performed during the first three months of 2025 on May 1.

RadioFX, a mobile app developer for radio stations, has teamed up with one of the world's most famous Country radio stations as it celebrates its 100th anniversary of broadcasting live from Music City USA.

He hosts the morning shift on a Class B1 FM radio station licensed to a city just west of the Dayton metropolitan area, on the Indiana side of the border. Now, this programmer and on-air host is teaming with his wife to acquire not only this property but its radio siblings serving Richmond.

A February "adjustment" of the organization designed to "optimize the alignment" of Skyview Networks' business units has resulted in the departure of its President of Network Partnerships and Chief Revenue Officer, who prior to taking this role in April 2022 was a longtime Executive VP.

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.

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.