Radio News

For many years, a Baja California-based mega-watt AM has been used to target U.S. audiences. That's still the case today. But, the programming choice has drawn the ire of one influential D.C. politician. Sen. Ted Cruz wants to put a stop to what's currently being beamed from Mexico to serve Southern California. Why? He says "URadio" is a Chinese propaganda machine.

For listeners of a Class A FM serving Vincennes and Washington, Ind., some "Memories" delivered across the day, following the "Morning Shake Up" with DeWayne Shake are what listeners have come to expect. Now, the FM, its AM sister, and a pair of FM translators are being transferred to a new licensee. And, it's good news for the "shakers" who love what they're hearing.

HRN Media Network, a Gen Media Partners company, is participating in the Radio Cares: Feeding America Emergency Radiothon campaign. It's doing so by contributing inventory that reaches 94% of U.S. Hispanic households across 220 radio stations.

To encourage residents of Southern Nevada to continue physical distancing efforts, iHeartMedia's four radio stations have teamed with the Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned NBC affiliate for a benefit event airing early Wednesday evening across the broadcast media outlets.

Financial analyst Michael Nathanson fears that the COVID-19 pandemic has created another period of economic duress, accelerating shifts in consumer and corporate behavior. Now, Nathanson believes that "the fundamental pillars of media," which were starting to crack heading into 2020, are crumbling. This could be a permanent wound ... and likens it to Radio's woes.

Puerto Rico's radio broadcasting history is replete with success stories. Some involve WUNO-AM and Tropical powerhouse "Cadena Salsoul." Now, iHeartMedia is associating itself with these "cadenas" and others presently under the Uno Radio Group stable, thanks to an exclusive partnership that brings the iHeartRadio brand directly to the Caribbean.

One of the nation's foremost sports betting information networks has partnered up with a key sports audio company "to further gain market share and sponsorship opportunities." The partnership comes despite the lack of wagering on live sporting events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shut down all Las Vegas casinos.

Univision on Tuesday offered an early look at its Q1 2020 fiscal results. The details include news that a big impairment charge tied to its radio stations is coming. What wasn't shared with anyone outside of the Hispanic media company was news pertaining to furloughs and a company-wide restructure that soon-to-depart CEO Vince Sadusky says will lead to a company-wide job cut.

In March 2017, an ex-Citadel Broadcasting regional director who served as the PD of Vero Beach, Fla.’s Treasure and Space Coast Radio found himself moving to Charlotte, to take a key role for Entercom's stations in the market. Now, media professionals from across the U.S. are taking a pause to remember him. Darrin Arriens is a victim of the COVID-19 virus.

Compelling podcasts and audiobooks, dramas, documentaries, breaking news coverage entertainment and music specials created by storytellers around the globe impressed judges as the New York Festivals Radio Awards revealed on Tuesday its Storytellers Gala award winners. Among the U.S. entities honored: Cumulus Media-owned Westwood One.

It may never become a publicly traded company, yet Miami-based Univision Communications has dutifully offered its quarterly earnings results and has hosted an analysts call for the last several periods. Now, Univision has issued preliminary first quarter 2020 results. Overall, they are good. But, the situation within Univision Radio is far from stellar.

In many communities with significant percentage of Hispanics, Latino-owned businesses are among the most imperiled by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. What can they do to survive? A new program airing across SBS's radio stations and its Mega TV operation is designed to answer such questions while empowering multicultural business owners with education and guidance.

This renewal covers national and local measurement of all 58 of Univision’s owned and operated Uforia Audio Network stations in 15 key markets, which include the top 10 U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico. The agreement includes all Univision portable people meter markets, continuous diary measurement markets and a two-book market in Texas.

For Media Information Bureau columnist Ken Benner, satellite fed programming under local computer control has eliminated on-air talent in locales where there's now a greater need than ever for a live and local voice. This raises the question of who and where is the source of that broadcast control is located. It brings to mind FCC regulations regarding "Chief Operators."