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Strike up MacNamara’s Band but you may want to hold on that Half and Half or Irish Coffee until digesting the numbers.  Townsquare Media will be releasing its Q4 and full-year 2024 financial results bright and early on St. Patrick's Day.

The nation's No. 1 owner of radio stations has decided when it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and for the full year of 2024.  It will see iHeartMedia's CEO and CFO share their results on a busy day in which TEGNA, Nexstar Media Group and Gray Media will also be releasing their Q4 '24 fiscal report cards.

Former KBEQ-FM in Kansas City programmer and air talent Todd Nixon couldn't be busier. He just launched "Lompoc's Greatest Hits" on Monday morning, and on Sunday signed off on an asset purchase agreement that will see his Sticks Media acquire a Class A FM in the Show-Me State. 

A pair of radio stations licensed to a rural Idaho community north of Boise is about to get a new owner, pending FCC approval. Who's agreed to purchase "Star 95.5" and its "Superstar Country" sibling?

In April 1996, he rose from General Sales Manager to General Manager of Spanish Broadcasting System's flagship New York properties, including the Hispanic-focused radio operator's very first radio station.  Now, Gene Bryan has returned to the company.

In a widely expected move following the January 29 decision by CEO David Field to step down as President/CEO, Audacy Chief Financial Officer Rich Schmaeling has resigned "to pursue other business opportunities." The company with majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management "will not name" a new CFO in the near term.

He's the Clerk of the Senate Committee on Transportation for the State of Vermont and also chairs the state's Senate Committee on Institutions. With the FCC's blessing, you can soon call Russ Ingalls a broadcast licensee, too.

Woodward Communications in late 2024 acquired radio stations from Neuhoff Media and, one month later, Mid-West Family Broadcasting. To satisfy local ownership caps, it is agreeing to sell a Class A facility serving Bloomington-Normal, Ill. The buyer is a non-secular operator.

The answer, based on the responses of some 1,130 local ad buyers surveyed during Fall 2024 by Borrell Associates, is a resounding "yes."

The 2025 Medallas de Cortez award nominations are now open. The highly coveted awards will be presented at the 16th Hispanic Radio Conference, June 11-12 in Houston. Now is the opportunity for YOU to nominate the shining stars in the Hispanic radio industry.

The distribution of the advisory comes days after Tennessee Senator and former House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Marsha Blackburn wrote to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to rein in the practice of free artist performances by broadcast stations.  As she sees it, that's a "plug-ola" action needing a hard stop.

The six audio brands serving the city on the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers has a new leader, and it is a woman who has been associated with the radio stations owned by the nation's No. 1 owner of AMs and FMs since the early 2000s.

The same day it passed through the Senate Commerce Committee, the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" has been reintroduced in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Gus Bilirakis and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr.

The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday morning approved reintroduced legislation that would mandate the cost-free accessibility of AM radio in all vehicles sold in the U.S., sending the AM Radio for Vehicle Act to the full Senate for a vote.

The FCC has reportedly escalated its investigation into activities and actions regarding Audacy Inc. by asking the company about reports that aired on one of its all-News radio stations that revealed where undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles and agents would be doing sweeps for undocumented immigrants.