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The future of brands, including radio brands, is in the hands of young Hispanic consumers. Understanding how they use radio, digital, and social media is critical to anyone who wants to grow and expand market share in the 21st century. A Hispanic Radio Conference session moderated by SBS/Miami GSM Carolina Patiño is poised to inspire, and offer ideas on how to connect with Latinx.

While Beasley Media Group's quarterly dividend hasn't changed much over the years and Entercom recently sliced its investor reward, Saga Communications has long been generous with its quarterly dividend. On Wednesday, the radio industry pure-play moved ahead with its the third increase in its quarterly cash dividend since it started paying one..

After more than a decade with stations associated with Emmis Communications, including six years in Indianapolis before shifting to the Big Apple, Charlie Morgan is exiting. His departure follows the transfer of control of Emmis' FM stations in New York to a new entity run by Emmis in partnership with Soohyung Kim, the man demanding a TEGNA board seat.

The last six months haven't been pretty for Cumulus Media shareholders. That's why a gain on Wednesday was a win, as it reversed a steep dip that started at the start of 2020.

A Class B AM with a rich heritage serving the Windy City's African American community was acquired in October 2003 by a Detroit-based operator committed to providing gospel programming to listeners. Today, the station is in the hands of a court-appointed receiver.

For those planning to attend the Hispanic Radio Conference, here is the latest information: The conference is still scheduled to be presented in Miami at the Intercontinental at Doral on March 25-26. Click here for more, and to secure your registration for this fact-filled and fun event.

Townsquare Media is well ahead of where its stock was six months ago, and CEO Bill Wilson will likely be touting many of the local-first media company's positives over the next week at two big investor conferences. That said, how will investors react to an expected year-over-year decline in Q4?

With the deal, announced Tuesday, advertisers and media buyers will now have the ability to find and activate their own audiences interacting with the company’s portfolio of audio assets.

“This extension helps us understand how Continuous Diary Measurement and Local Nielsen Media Impact may help drive advertising results while we work together to measure audio engagement for local station content and national network content moving forward,” says Cumulus Media EVP/Operations Bob Walker. 

Unless emergency interim action is taken by the FCC by March 30, four AM radio stations serving the St. Louis market -- and an FM translator assigned to one of these AMs -- will be "irretrievably lost." That's a take given by the MMTC's President Emeritus and Senior Advisor, David Honig. He wants the Commission to do what it can to preserve the stations and prevent their death.

U.S. financial markets soared in a major way on Monday, as coronavirus-fueled losses seen last week brought out the bargain hunters. The result: a 5.1% gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while the S&P500 improved by 4.6% and Nasdaq was up by 4.5%. How did radio and TV businesses fare?

He may be low on delegates and votes thus far, but former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is seemingly pulling out all the stops ahead of March 3's "Super Tuesday" primary elections by continuing to dominate all Spot TV campaigns and boosting his efforts at Spot Cable. Bloomberg has also bumped up his radio efforts, and is now at the top of the Spot Ten Radio report.

In the last year, Connoisseur Media took a hard look at its collection of assets and made a decision to focus its entire business on a Maryland city that's more of a Washington suburb than ever, and stations that touch the New York City metropolitan area from Connecticut and Long Island. Now, the company headed by Jeff Warshaw is expanding. But, it's not buying any additional radio stations.

Educational Media Foundation's latest big-market buy is the station formerly known as WAAF, in Westborough, Mass., and serving a swath of Massachusetts from Springfield to much of Boston. EMF made another deal this week, one that involves a silent FM in a picturesque part of the Rocky Mountain State.

The FCC has issued a Public Notice seeking input on the state of the communications marketplace to inform the Commission’s required assessment of the state of competition in the communications marketplace in its second Communications Marketplace Report (2020 Communications Marketplace Report) to Congress.