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The only way broadcasters can effectively monetize their investments is to "digitize" the audience, creating first-party data that fits advertiser needs and positions stations to take full advantage of the digital audience they are creating. A Radio Masters Sales Summit panel will explore real-world success stories and provide specific ways stations can go beyond Nielsen to monetize their entire audience.

The Radio Television Digital News Association has announced the national winners of the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Awards. This prestigious recognition honors over 100 outlets across radio, digital, and television journalism. This announcement follows the regional winners announced in May.

With Vince Bodiford as CEO, the Manoj Bhargava-bankrolled Bridge News LLC has been converting leased digital multicast arrangements to owned-and-operated facilities for its NewsNet 24/7 over-the-channel modeled after CNN Headline News' original model. Now, Bhargava is making it known that he has acquired "major stakes" in two of the radio broadcasting industry's largest companies.

With 15 minutes left in Tuesday's trading, Audacy Inc. shares had plummeted by 31% from Monday's close, putting the company founded by Joseph Field as Entercom in a potentially precarious position.

American Public Media and Audacy’s Cadence13 podcast studio are ending their multiyear advertising partnership on August 31, roughly a year earlier than initially planned. It's the latest news story to involve the company led by CEO David Field, which is suffering from new sub-$1 stock value woes.

WVFG-FM in Uniontown, Ala., faces a license revocation hearing. Why? Overdue regulatory fees could be the ultimate cost for the station's owner.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Radio report is out, and a QSR has a sound lead among all brands using broadcast AM and FM for the week ending August 13. It's not McDonald's.

The FCC on Thursday took action to address "longstanding concerns" to better ensure that the agency's assessment and collection of its annual regulatory fees "is more closely aligned with the burden of the work being performed by Commission employees for each regulatory fee category." What does that mean for radio and television broadcasters?

It's the home of not only nationally recognized syndicated sports talk hosts but also Fanrun Radio, from 7am-6pm local time.  Now, this 1kw Class C AM from 1 tower in Knoxville, Tenn., along with its FM translator, are poised to come under new ownership.

For a generation of radio listeners in Atlanta, he's a household name. Now, many are saying prayers as Steve McCoy, who has suffered from Parkinson's Disease for several years, has entered hospice care, local media reported on Thursday.

On Monday, early word came courtesy of iHeartMedia that it is agreeing to purchase four FM radio stations serving Atlantic City, N.J., and surrounding communities along the Jersey Shore, from Gary Fisher-led Equity Communications. The price the nation's No. 1 owner of radio stations is paying for the four FMs is now known.

How is a four-station radio group serving Southwestern Colorado, technically within the Albuquerque TV market, hooking listeners and advertisers now that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic has largely subsided? Four Corners Broadcasting Regional Manager Ward Holmes shares his story in this fresh InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

Salem Media Group shares were down sharply in early trading on Wednesday, following the release of quarterly earnings that saw revenue beat analysts' forecasts while missing their prognostications on earnings per share. While Q2 offered mixed results, the third quarter does not offer a respite from weak advertising revenue trends.

Do you listen to the nationally syndicated offering The Bobby Bones Show, heard on iHeartMedia Country stations across the U.S.? You'll be pleased to know that the program will be sticking around a little bit longer, as the host who first emerged as a Top 40 DJ in Austin has reupped with iHeart.

Investors in audio content creation and distribution company Audacy may be a little nervous thanks to a 10-Q filing made Monday with the SEC that shares the company's status as a "Going Concern" — and how plans are in the works to sell "certain assets" in two top markets. As of 11am Tuesday, "AUDA" was off by nearly 13%, to 95 cents per share.