Radio News

Will it rain or snow in the coming days? Is the heat wave and fire danger set to end soon in California? Answers to these questions are being provided to consumers of Entercom radio station websites thanks to a digital content integration agreement now finalized with AccuWeather.

In the New York Tri-State area, public television has been synonymous with Channel 13 for nearly 50 years. It's noted in the Billy Joel song, "Pressure," and the "Thirteen" brand has established PBS member station WNET-13 as a force. Now, WNET, chartered by the SUNY board of regents, is buying its first radio station.

In August, Entercom shared that it had acquired Brooklyn, N.Y.-based podcast producer Pineapple Street and the outstanding shares of a podcast creator and distributor it has had a 45% stake in since August 2017, when it was known as DGital Media. That latter transaction has just closed.

What if reaching consumers through a digital medium -- say, e-mail -- was a challenge for your radio or TV station or for a medium or small-business client? A Florida digital marketing company has a solution. It worked for newspapers. Now, it believes it's on track to work for broadcast media, too.

Longtime media executive Randy Michaels returns to Forecast this year, heading up a session that is bound to prompt undivided attention and provoke plenty of discussion, both on stage and from the audience ... and with good reason.

Townsquare Media will release third quarter 2019 financial results before the market opens on November 5. The news comes as TSQ's first month of Q4 has outperformed much of the stock's performance of the previous three quarters.

The owner and operator of one of the largest news operations in Nebraska has agreed to acquire an AM/FM combo located in the town of Sidney. Serving as the broker on this deal: Jason James of Patrick Communications.

In 1996, he pocketed millions by selling a pioneering Smooth Jazz FM in "America's Finest City" to Jefferson-Pilot Communications. Now, he's being remembered for his time as a radio station owner, following his death on Friday at age 68. Bruce Walton's passing comes amid sale rumors at two other San Diego radio stations.

Until now, a Class C3 noncommercial FM scraping the southern edges of the Cincinnati metropolitan area has used its signal to provide Christian Contemporary Classic Hits. Now, a programming shift is likely. The facility has just been acquired by another non-secular broadcaster.

While this is a portfolio review and the company's credit ratings aren't impacted by the review, will investors react? On Monday, the answer was no. Perhaps the lousy assessment of Salem Media Group by Moody's Investors Service hadn't gotten to them yet.

Is it the cold and flu season? It appears so, given the bump in activity by one of the largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. It could have been seen at broadcast and/or cable television. Instead, Walgreens is using Radio.

Here's a news story that's guaranteed to get your attention. A large multimedia broadcasting company boasting a reach of 4.29 million, struggling of late with its television channels, has put them up for sale. This will allow the company to focus on its two other "very strong growth platforms" — OOH and Radio.

Once upon a time, retailers seeking to entertain shoppers and staffers offered audio entertainment by way of a radio, tuned to a specific over-the-air radio station. Today, that's a rarity. Yet, OOH audio has hardly faded, and Vibenomics sees a thirst for OOH audio options. Marketers are responding. Will Radio?

That's a question asked on Friday by Zacks Equity Research, which takes an up-close look at Entravision's operating cash flow in addition to the company's price-to-sales ratio. What did Zacks find? We took a look.

A station known for "Real News. Real Talk" and a slate of conservative-leaning syndicated talk radio hosts is being sold by an independent entity with a close relationship to Salem Media Group. The buyer? It's the MAGA Radio Network.