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Longtime Boston-based radio programming consultant Clark Smidt has combed through the April Nielsen Audio ratings results for his home market. There, as in other locales where the PPM is used, cume -- the number of people actively tuning to radio -- has tumbled since the COVID-19 pandemic began. But, Smidt believes ratings are only part of the story radio can tell.

More choices and more personalization have lead to an uncomfortable destabilzation of radio’s place in the car… the car where currently more than 50% of radio’s heavy listening happens according to Jacobs Media’s Techsurvey10.

He’s currently the PD at CBS Radio’s WIP-A/FM in Philadelphia

Saga reported Q1 free cash flow increased 23.8% to $4.0 million compared to the $3.2 million for the same period last year.  Net operating...

Why did Townsquare Media, with a stock price that is at its highest price in nearly six years, reveal in a SEC filing that one of its board members on Friday -- one who chairs the Compensation Committee -- resigned? The explanation is a simple one.

GeoBroadcast Solutions has successfully integrated Burk Technology’s Arcadia24 monitoring into a recent MaxxCasting installation at three Bonneville International-owned FM radio stations. It's a technology that will be featured as a live demonstration during the 2023 NAB Show.

Until recently, a 3,500-watt Class A facility with a broadcast tower in the city of Oak Brook, Ill., could barely penetrate the Loop and much of the city of Chicago. Today, EMF owns the station, which carries the WAWE-FM call letters. And, for the first time ever, it fully reaches Chicago's most populous zones. Thank GeoBroadcast Solutions for making it happen.

Radio Kingston and its WKNY-AM 1490, with a long-awaited FM translator at 107.9 up and running, is set to further its mission of being a responsible and connected community member by engaging in a potentially significant nontraditional revenue opportunity for all radio stations across the U.S.

BMI wants radio to cough up more for using their music, but the Radio Music Licensing Committee wants that rate lowered. The wild card is streaming music and the venue to sort it all out in federal court is New York.

In an attempt to lure consumers from their favorite sunbathing sites and preferred picnic places, Macy's turned up the heat in its marketing efforts—and used AM and FM radio to do so—into the Memorial Day holiday.