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The No. 1-rated spoken word radio station serving the San Francisco-Oakland market, a perennial standout NPR Member, has been selected as the recipient of the fifth annual World Radio Day Award, given annually to a radio station in the U.S. by the Academy of Radio Arts & Sciences of America.

How did Corus Entertainment fare in its fiscal first quarter of 2024? Not as good as it did one year earlier, putting added pressure on the owner of broadcast radio and MVPD-distributed television offerings.  

The parent of broadcast media company Bell Media, which enjoys a close relationship with iHeartMedia for its radio stations across Canada, has announced when it will hold its Q4 2023 and 2024 guidance call for investors and analysts. What can those with shares in BCE Inc. expect to hear?

In 2022, in the 41th year of Canadian Music Week, a radio industry conference that largely attracted European talent, programming and management leaders to a continental affair expanded to Canada. Now, Radiodays North America is returning for a reprise. And, the CRTC's CEO will be there.

The facility with the call letters WZJZ is taking a cue from WHYI's sibling by adopting a "Only in Florida" Soft Adult Contemporary format with Spanish-language hosts and commercials.

As Audacy Inc. works through its prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization in a Houston federal bankruptcy court, the Philadelphia-headquartered company on Thursday unveiled "new organization and leadership updates" for its Hip-Hop and Adult R&B-formatted radio stations. 

"Due to economic conditions in the market, the licensee was forced to take the station off the air temporarily." But, how long will the challenges of running a pair of Docket 80/90 Class A radio stations in rural Delaware County, N.Y. keep them dark? And, could Townsquare Media simply try to sell them?

Adthos is demonstrating the power of generative AI in 2023 by turning back the clock 60 years with “a tribute” to 1960s jingle producer PAMS that demonstrates how computers can create what humans have produced for decades as an essential for thousands of on-air properties around the world.

A single confirmation hearing is likely all that the company founded as Entercom needs to emerge from debtor-in-possession status, as the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas seeks to reduce any backlog triggered by the sudden October 2023 resignation of Judge David Jones on ethics concerns. 

Advertisers seeking access to iHeartMedia's multiplatform properties will now have a single entry point for audio ad placement on its terrestrial radio, streaming, and podcast platforms by ushering in an omnichannel programmatic media buying opportunity for marketers.

Audacy Inc., in an early Sunday announcement, confirmed that the company has reached an agreement with a supermajority of its debtholders on a financial restructuring that the publicly traded company says “will significantly deleverage Audacy’s balance sheet and further position Audacy for long-term growth.”

Add another secular-to-religious radio station transaction to the long list of deals that have seen the conversion of commercially licensed properties to non-commercial facilities focused on spreading the word of God through songs of worship.

"The Station of the Cross" Catholic Media Network can be heard in two Massachusetts cities by way of a Class C AM in one locale, and a daytime-only AM aided by an FM translator in another burgh. And, pending FCC approval, the religious institution that operates the network will own these facilities outright.

Listeners to a collection of Audacy Inc.-owned spoken word stations in the nation’s top markets will continue hearing news and information from CBS News Radio. It is thanks to a new, multi-year affiliation agreement with the audio content creation and distribution company.

As expected, the nation's leading multimedia company superserving Black consumers has regained compliance with the Nasdaq Stock Market's Periodic Filing Rule.