Monday, July 6, 2026

Google Voice to add Audio Ads?

SpinValleyPost.com reports that according to Unwired View, Google Voice just filed an application with Fish and Richardson legal services on a patent that is...

Pulse quickens in New York

Regardless of how much money it raised, the response of listeners to a radiothon appeal for donations from listeners apparently impressed creditors of Pulse...

Jacobs Summit lives on

R&R is gone and so is the R&R Convention, which had included the Jacobs Summit. Fear not. Jacobs Media has now partnered with the...

Microsoft’s music streaming service

The UK Telegraph reports Microsoft is gearing up to launch a music streaming service similar to Spotify by the end of this month. The service, which Microsoft aims to have ready by the end of July

CCU donates stations to MMTC

Clear Channel has finally found a way to clear out some of its excess inventory, and it is indeed a noble way. It is donating four AM stations -- in Arkansas, Minnesota, Mississippi and Virginia – to the Minority Media

Pulse 87.7 begging listeners (literally) for support

Radiothons are common practice for noncommercial radio stations to raise money, but this time it is Pulse 87.7 (the Channel 6 audio of WNYZ-LP)

Michael Savage welcome in jolly old England

The UK’s new Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has dropped US radio talk host Michael Savage from a list of people barred from entering the...

Inlet Technologies supports live streaming to iPhone

Inlet Technologies, provider of live streaming and on-demand solutions for digital media, announced it is one of the first encoding technology providers to publicly...

Marconi finalists announced

The NAB has released this year’s list of stations and personalities in line to receive a Marconi Award at the NAB Radio Show in...

Musicians getting ripped off, all right

Jim Cooper (D-TN) took to the pages of his hometown Nashville Tennessean to argue in favor of the Performance Rights Act, saying that

MMTC proposes “radio rescue”

The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC), which begins its annual Access to Capital and Telecom Policy Conference today in Washington, has sent the...

PPM improvement in Detroit, but still a problem

The Black 18-34 Portable People Meter (PPM) sample grew in the Detroit market in June, but still remained under target. Arbitron has released June

Walter Cronkite dead at 92

The CBS news anchor that instilled in all Americans a level of honest reporting and trust during the golden age of television passed away...

WideOrbit to buy Google Radio

Well, the rumors everyone has been hearing are pretty much true: Revenue Management systems provider WideOrbit has all but purchased Google Radio Automation, after...

Sirius XM short a director

Sirius XM says it has received an official notice from Nasdaq that it is not in compliance with the rule that requires a majority...