Radio News

A conservative spoken word AM serving Houston is being acquired by a limited liability company led by Yasmeen Qureshi. What does this mean for "The Voice of Texas"? If anything, it concludes a second round of ownership for the man who since 2015 has been the Lieutenant Governor of the Lone Star State.

With the privatization of Salem Media, completed on August 20, former Chief Financial Officer Evan Masyr accepted the new role of CFO at K-LOVE, where he begins his new duties on September 14.  Now, WaterStone-held Salem has promoted from within in a move to bolster its finance and accounting department.

It was warned in late April: pay your overdue regulatory fees to the FCC, or risk losing your license. The owner has chosen the latter, and is getting his AM serving Butte, Mont., taken away from him.

Four months ago, a new chapter began for Nueva Network, which Carlos Moncada took full ownership of in late 2025. Now, Nueva Network is announcing a series of "strategic new hires" across its digital and regional sales divisions to support Nueva Network's ongoing growth.

The new rack-mount models — taking the VX8 and VX10 names, naturally — are designed to bring broadcasters "a compact, serviceable, and cost-effective option for higher-power main, standby, and N+1 FM applications."

A "legacy" licensee in Georgia has agreed to spin a radio station to a limited liability company that will preserve the station's current branding and format, based on paperwork submitted to the Commission for its regulatory approval.

It's a platform designed to measure audio advertising performance and advertiser return on investment used by one of Western Canada's largest radio station ownership groups. Now, it is being made available to a global audience thanks to a distribution agreement with Coleman Insights.

For the past two years, the amount owed to the Commission from AM and FM radio station owners for the right to use public spectrum has gone down. That ends this year: the FCC said no to requests from dozens of state broadcasters associations and the NAB to dampen a coming fee rise.

In late March, RBR+TVBR first reported on the acquisition of a Class A FM serving an area of Western Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio, by Family Life Radio. Now, the broadcast ministry led by Rick Snavely has decided to spin the facility. The buyer? Look no further than WYEP and WESA.

The privately held radio broadcasting company led by Jeff Warshaw has agreed to sell a pair of AM/FM combos, serving two unrated markets in Minnesota. The deal, which is being filed in the FCC's LMS for regulatory approval early next week, saw Kalil & Co. serve as the exclusive broker for the transaction.

The FTC has finalized orders requiring Cox Media Group and two other firms to pay nearly $1 million to settle claims they deceived customers by falsely stating they offer an AI-powered service that could target localized ads based on conversations captured from consumers’ smart devices, and that consumers had opted into such targeting.

The FCC's Media Bureau has issued a public notice with the expressed intent of providing "clarification and additional guidance" as it pertains to eligibility restrictions and the comparative selection criteria in its filing window for new noncommercial educational reserved band FM translator station applications.

The Operations Manager for a group of radio stations that includes Midway, Ga.-licensed and Savannah-targeted WGCO "Hot 98.3" has accepted the role of Manager of Station Operations for AI-powered audio tech vendor Super Hi-Fi.

The licensee of a pair of radio stations on the Delmarva Peninsula has filed a Petition to Deny a proposed transaction submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval. That deal would allow Draper Media to own and operate eight radio stations in the region between Wilmington, Del., and Salisbury-Ocean City, Md.

The weeks-long standoff is over. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit formally issued a mandate on Tuesday, vacating the stay that had clouded Cumulus Media’s antitrust injunction against Nielsen and confirming that the order is back in force.