Radio News

Your chance to honor Hispanic radio’s brightest stars is back! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Medallas de Cortez awards, to be presented at Streamline Publishing's Hispanic Radio Conference. Nominate across seven categories by March 13 at 8pm Eastern.

Just 48 hours after Roger Holler's radio broadcasting company completed a deal that saw it expand to Florida's Treasure Coast, a fresh transition has been struck that sees the Gainesville-headquartered operation add in Polk County, Fla. The deal brings to an end longtime ownership of the stations by Hall Communications.

The Acting Chief of the FCC's Media Bureau has been joined by the FCC's newly minted Managing Director in sending a pair of "Order to Pay or Show Cause" letters to a radio station owner who is very delinquent in meeting his regulatory fee obligations with the Commission.

G. Brint Ryan and Malinda Flenniken, the current Managing Partner of KBest Media, have given the official handshake to a deal awaiting a filing in the FCC's LMS for its regulatory approval. It sees the sale of "KBest Media," just east of Odessa-Midland, Tex.

The digital advertising exchange owned by Global is teaming with a media and technology company known for "powering college athletics." DAX US will serve as its sales partner for that company's live sports digital audio streams, "creating a new destination for advertisers looking to reach fans."

Under the agreement, Audacy will oversee advertising sales for more than 100 Sonos Radio stations while distributing the streams across the Audacy app and website, as well as Google Home, Alexa, and Apple Music.

Wade Davis became widely known as the individual who helped to create TelevisaUnivision, bringing Univision and Mexican media Goliath Televisa together in marriage. Now, Davis has reemerged with another notable privatization, and it involves an arm once tied to the biggest owner of radio stations in the U.S.

Digital advertising revenue reached $2.3 billion in 2025, accounting for one-quarter of all radio industry advertising revenue and stabilizing total industry sales. That's according to RAB’s 14th Annual Digital Benchmarking Report, produced by Borrell Associates.

From summer 1990 through today, the individual known to listeners as "Doc Holliday" became a household name in the Orlando market, thanks to memorable roles at "XL106.7" and, until 2010, the Cox Media Group Country station serving Central Florida. Now, the host whose legal name is Jeffrey Duncan is being mourned.

The radio broadcasting company headed by Jeff Warshaw that instantly mushroomed in size by acquiring Alpha Media has named a Regional Manager of National Sales for the West Coast, overseeing activities across five markets under the leadership of Tina Murley.

Year-over-year sales were flat. Subscriber rolls were down compared to the final three months of 2024. Earnings per share estimates were much more robust than the actual results. That latter win led investors to express pleasure with the Q4 2025 fiscal health report from Sirius XM.

The NAB is relocating the "TV and Radio HQ" from the West Hall to a "new, highly visible location." The other big news? the Small and Medium Market Radio Forum will take place on Sunday, April 19, "positioning it at the start of NAB Show when the full broadcast community is on site."

There's a new individual who has been tasked with overseeing radio stations in 30 markets across the South, Southwest and Texas for iHeartMedia. It's someone who served as Head of Sales Enablement and Business Development at the broadcast TV company that hopes to be acquired by Nexstar.

For those driving around on Super Bowl Sunday, listeners to KGMZ "95.7 The Game" in the San Francisco Bay Area will see something on their dashboard audio tuner never-before brought to fruition. It's thanks to a new partnership involving Audacy, GeoBroadcast Solutions and Lazer Spots.

It's long been branded as "Your Feel Good Island Music Station." But those who lead the operations at this Class C1 FM serving Hilo, Hawaii, may not be feeling so good today. That's because it is the recipient of a Notice of Violation from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau for a rule foul it has just been warned of.