Saturday, July 11, 2026

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NextRadio headed for CES

The campaign to get FM on smartphones will be making a high-profile stop at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Money

Station hit with main studio fine

A notice of apparent liability has changed to a forfeiture order for KOMJ-AM Omaha and its licensee Cochise Broadcasting

Radio News: Cumulus, Envision, Entravision, Fisher House, MediaTracks

In today’s items, Cumulus WARMs up in Wilkes Barre, Envision makes interview matches...
Sold

Harts will walk the WAWK

An AM station and its FM translator serving an unrated portion of Indiana is going to a new owner.

Ratings: Nine more markets and out

Here’s one more report on November Nielsen Audio market results from Connector Clark Smidt

iHeart’s tower sale is ratings neutral

The sale of 411 towers to Vertical Bridge will not affect Fitch Ratings’ assessment of iHeartMedia’s overall financial position.

Mickey exiting his Florida homestead

Yes, we’re talking Radio Disney, and we’re also talking Orlando.
Files

FCC shovels out from typo blizzard

A number of licensee-wannabes with dismissed applications for new FMs had erroneous geo-coordinates in their tech boxes...
COX Radio Inc

Cox bags some oceanfront property

W258CN is still at the CP stage, but to all indications it is very much worth going to the trouble to construct.

Debt deal for Minnesota combo

A traditional AM-FM combo is going to a new owner, making at least one bank happy...

Ford Sync 3 dashboard’s radio friendliness

Ford has gone for ease of use rather than multiplicity of options.

Marijuana gets its own radio show

A new attitude toward marijuana is emerging in the United States.

Ratings results, markets #26-#40

Today, Clark Smidt walks us through Nielsen Audio’s radio wars scorecard...
No!

FCC pulls over another EAS violator

An EAS tone was broadcast on a SiriusXM channel 12/4/13...

Tower deal turning iHeart from owner to renter

Vertical Bridge is going to take some towers off the hands of iHeartMedia.