Radio News

In October 2016, a radio industry veteran left the business. He joined an Austin-based marketing and advertising shop, serving as a senior account manager. The radio bug just bit him again: He's just been named a Market Manager for a cluster of iHeartRadio stations in a top 50 market.

The next two weeks will prove to be busy for a Houston-based U.S. bankruptcy court, and for the nation's largest radio broadcasting company. Why? It is iHeartMedia's desire to retain two financial advisory firms. Creditors last week filed objections to this -- and now iHeart objects to their objections. Could Liberty Media be involved? The creditors believe so.

In 2011, Joe Reilly concluded a remarkable 31-year run as the New York State Broadcasters Association (NYSBA)'s first and only leader. He wasn't ready for retirement and started a radio company. Today, it no longer has the FM it started with, and its remaining stations went dark on Sunday.

Townsquare Media on Monday held its 2018 annual shareholders meeting, at which a vote on the reelection of three board of directors was held. Were there any surprises? It depends on how you the view the millions of dissenting votes.

It may be classified as an Informal Objection, but if you're awaiting FCC approval on a pending translator application, Commission affirmation make take a little longer -- or be thwarted altogether. Nearly 1,000 FM translators are at stake, with opposition coming from groups that are against commercial licensee growth.

Westwood One, the national radio arm of Cumulus Media, is urging every major commercial broadcast radio station to register their existing C Band downlinks with the FCC. Why? We've got the answer.

The long-running and oftentimes bitter battle between syndicated Urban radio personality Michael Baisden and former distribution and production partner Cumulus Media has officially ended — sort of. The bankruptcy judge overseeing Cumulus' Chapter 11 reorganization plan is taking formal objections to a settlement he's agreed to sign in early June.

What is being hailed as "the first fully-digital attribution service for broadcast radio that will transform the way advertisers plan, buy and measure their audio campaigns to better optimize the unparalleled reach of radio" has been launched by the nation's No. 1 radio broadcasting company.

With all eyes on Entercom stock, bargain hunters swooped in to give the radio broadcasting company a much-needed gain on Wall Street. With the Closing Bell on Tuesday, ETM shares were up 6.2% from Monday. A columnist at MarketWatch may be to thank.

The dividend, approved today by Saga Communications' Board of Directors, will be paid on June 22 to shareholders of record on May 31.

On Feb. 13, one of the world’s top spoken word audio on-demand platforms made a major play for one of the globe’s biggest streaming audio providers: Audioboom offered to purchase Triton Digital for $185 million in an all-cash deal. Three months later, the transaction has been cancelled. 

While all of the buzz in the U.S. is about how smart speakers will bring in-home radio consumption back to where it once was, receiver sales in the Europe and Asia, including Australia and New Zealand, hit record levels in 2017. It's a tale of two worlds, and DAB has much to do with the differences. We've got an especially spicy RBR+TVBR Observation to share on this topic.

Do you know your strengths? If so, are you confident in them? Do you utilize your strengths in your business and relationships? These are some of the questions Media Information Bureau columnist Kelly Orchard addresses in her latest exclusive-to-RBR+TVBR column.

An individual with more than a decade of experience overseeing a group of radio stations serving the San Francisco Bay Area was recently displaced. As of today, he's no longer on the outside looking in. Instead, he's at a group of stations that were once formidable competitors, charged with bringing these AMs and FMs new riches and increased ratings.

The removal of four homes from the Los Angeles Portable People Meter (PPM) panel by Nielsen has led the nation's dominant audience measurement company to re-release seven months of Nielsen Audio ratings for the No. 2 market in the U.S.