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For Beasley Media Group CEO Caroline Beasley, last year wasn't easy, but she believes the company founded 65 years ago by her father did what was necessary to steer through Class V rapids and avoid any cascades.

Industry insiders believe divestments of more stations are in the works in multiple markets as key institutional investors such as Mario Gabelli have their eye on a fiscal turnaround. When will that happen? Not anytime soon, based on the Q4 and full-year 2025 results Beasley released on Wednesday morning.

A pair of legal challenges filed Tuesday in a Houston U.S. bankruptcy court have put a dark cloud on Cumulus Media’s prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization plan and emergence from debtor-in-possession status.

Every dollar matters for the noncommercial secular radio and television properties found across the U.S. That's why noncommercial station licensees may have great interest in a private underwriting and sponsorship marketplace purpose-built for public media.

Sigma Audio Networks is expanding its national audio platform by putting Estrella Media's "Don Cheto al Aire" into national syndication while handling national ad sales. Concurrently, it is offering its WQHT "HOT 97" in New York morning show to all interested parties across the U.S. in a new syndication deal.

Broadcast Supply Worldwide (BSW) has signed an agreement allowing it to bring Lawo’s radio production and broadcast infrastructure solutions to stations across the United States. This includes integrated packages built around Lawo’s IP-based workflow technology.

With peers announcing when they will release their Q1 2026 financial results, the company led by CEO Caroline Beasley is gearing up for the release of its fiscal 2025 Profit & Loss report. What can investors including Mario Gabelli expect to hear from the company?

Grab your coffee and favorite breakfast biscuit and set your alarms for an early rise on Monday, May 11. Why? The C-Suite at Townsquare Media will once again present its quarterly earnings results bright and early to start the week. 

The nation's biggest audio content creator and distributor has a new CEO for the unit that includes its more than 860 local broadcast radio stations; its radio networks businesses (including Premiere Networks and TTWN); and the Enterprise Business Development Group. She rises from President of Markets Group & Sales Operations.

The five audio brands serving the Wasatch Front owned and operated by Cumulus Media have a new President/GM, and it is the ex-Market President for the iHeartMedia stations serving Salt Lake City.

Audacy CEO Kelli Turner, in an internal memo, notes that "to better capture opportunities, scale success, and sharpen our competitive edge," the privately held company with majority ownership held by Soros Fund Management is establishing a regionalized sales organization. The Market Manager post is being erased.

He's been the Chairman and President/CEO of Skyview Networks, the national radio advertising organization, since April 2019, and before that spent many years at the former ABC News Radio enterprise, starting as a News Writer in 1986. Now, he's taking on full ownership of Skyview, Streamline Publishing has confirmed.

It owns and operates a collection of 11 radio brands, in addition to seven broadcast TV offerings and real estate holding company Loblolly. The media properties are overseen by Craig Jahelka, a 50-year industry veteran associated with Draper Media since April 2008. A plan has now been put in place to determine Jahelka's successor.

A District of Columbia District Court Judge has ruled against Donald J. Trump for his signing on May 1, 2025, of Executive Order 14290, which ended "taxpayer subsidization of biased media" by ending federal funding of both NPR and PBS by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or any government agency.

Two decades ago she was a popular morning co-host and PD of a Styles Media Group Country FM serving Alabama's Wiregrass Region. Now, she's preparing to acquire a heritage AM/FM radio combo in Dothan made famous in the region by founding owner Agnes Dowling Simpson.