Expanded-Band AM Warned For EAS Compliance Fail
The licensee of an AM radio station at 1680 kHz serving Grand Rapids, Mich., has been issued a stern warning from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau for its inability to provide an agent a copy of its Emergency Alert System logs during a February visit to the facility.
FCC Silences The Texas Thunder After Years Of Ignored Fees
Two East Texas FM signals have officially lost their broadcast licenses. The revocation comes after no formal response to the FCC’s demand for payment or justification for unpaid regulatory fees for fiscal years 2024, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017.
Chattanooga AM Owner In Hot Water Over Near Decade Of Unpaid Fees
A long-running talk and religious format station in Chattanooga, Tenn., is facing possible license revocation after decades on the air. The FCC has issued a formal Order to Pay or to Show Cause to Bible Talk Chattanooga (WJOC-AM) licensee Sarah M. Fryar, citing a failure to pay regulatory fees going back to 2016.
iHeart Trusts True Crime to Advance Podcast-to-Broadcast Push
iHeartMedia, already the largest podcast publisher in the U.S. by audience reach, is betting that the platform's fans can expand its digital dominance into live, appointment-based listening across its terrestrial broadcast properties with a new true crime radio program set to premiere next month.
Hope Media Group To Debut Ministry & Media Center On June 5
Hope Media Group has officially unveiled its new 50,000-square-foot Ministry & Media Center in New Caney, TX, giving a first look at the Christian broadcaster’s updated headquarters. The building anchors the Valley Ranch Entertainment District and is part of a larger HMG operational consolidation.
FCC’s Gomez Warns of Coordinated Federal Effort to Silence Newsrooms
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez issued a forceful rebuke of what she described as a coordinated federal campaign to intimidate journalists and pressure news organizations into silence, warning that regulatory power is increasingly being used as a political weapon, saying, “If I get fired, it isn’t because I didn’t do my job—it’s because I insisted on doing it.”
Schaflander Lands New Market Manager Role After Atlanta Return
Cumulus Media has appointed Justin Schaflander as Vice President and Market Manager for its Atlanta cluster, after bringing the former iHeartMedia executive back to the Peach State following a two-year stint in Los Angeles with Good Karma Brands.
bisqqit Rises to Provide Geo-Coded Tool for Radio Campaigns
A new broadcast sales technology platform is aiming to modernize how stations and agencies map and plan audio campaigns. bisqqit introduces the first geo-coded mapping and planning software built specifically for retail-focused radio advertising.
MIW Opens 2025 Mentorship for Women in Programming
Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio has opened the application window for its 2025 Elevating Women in Programming Mentorship, continuing a seven-year tradition of fostering leadership development for women in broadcast programming roles.
SiriusXM, SoundExchange Royalty Case Paused for Settlement Talks
A federal judge has approved a 45-day pause in a lawsuit brought by SoundExchange Inc. against Sirius XM Radio Inc., giving the parties time to explore a potential settlement in a case centered on more than $150 million in alleged unpaid royalties.
NPR Says Trump’s Defunding Order Violates Constitution, Files Suit
National Public Radio and three of its Colorado member stations have filed a sweeping federal lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ceasing federal funding for the organization and PBS, calling it an unprecedented attack on press freedom and an illegal effort to dismantle public broadcasting.
Northwest Ohio Radio Stations Lose Historic Home to Fire
A fire that broke out early Saturday morning, May 24, has destroyed the longtime broadcast home of WBNO and WQCT in Bryan, Ohio. The structure was deemed a total loss after the blaze engulfed the facility, which had hosted both stations since the 1960s.
Home Improvement Brands Are Tops as Summer Season Kicks Off
As Memorial Day ushered in the unofficial start of summer, home improvement retailers surged to the top of the national radio advertising rankings, marking a strategic shift in seasonal marketing ahead of peak travel and renovation season, according to Media Monitors’ Spot Ten Radio rankings for the week of May 19–25.
FCC-Authorized HD Radio Power Boost Now Official
The Media Bureau of the FCC has formally modified its rules as it pertains to FM terrestrial digital audio broadcasting systems, a change that is designed to give Xperi Corp.'s HD Radio a bigger signal contour.
AI Hallucination Not Defamation: Judge Tosses Salem Host’s Suit
Salem Radio Network syndicated host Mark Walters was the first to file a defamation complaint linked to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in June 2023, just months after the chatbot's public launch. Now that closely watched lawsuit has come to its conclusion, marking an early precedent in the legal scrutiny of generative artificial intelligence.