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But new data from Edison Research and Nielsen shows some loses in younger demos

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News/Talk still tops the dial, Adult Contemporary still leads music, and younger listeners are finding their favorites in Country, Pop, and Alternative. Nielsen’s latest quarterly look at radio formats finds steady listening across the board as football season kicked off and baseball headed to its pennant races.

“Eight always-on stations you tune rather than search”

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Yes, there was an $8 million quarterly loss for the nation's largest owner of broadcast radio stations and biggest creator of audio content in the U.S., as political revenue fell short of the company's goal. That said, iHeartMedia has enjoyed sizable growth in its podcast revenue — so much that it will become its own reporting segment in 2027.

MediaCo's lenders are handing it another short runway. The multicultural broadcaster has secured a one-month extension on a key loan, but the agent's acknowledgment that defaults are continuing keeps the pressure on a company already carrying a going concern warning from its auditors.

The three 950-foot masts that once beamed RTL’s two-megawatt signal across France came down

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Sharing visions. Projecting revenues. Discussing the strategies that will guide and drive the broadcast industry in the coming year. Streamline Publishing's Forecast conference is where the high-level executives are free to share it all ... and exclusively in the room where it happens. You can still be a part of it all.

Holloway joined the commission in 2019 as an honors attorney

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There's upward momentum this week at Spot TV for a venerable QSR brand that revolutionized hamburger consumption with "Speedy" and then brought in the kids with the clown named "Ronald." It's welcome news from the Golden Arches — especially after it cancelled its global FIFA World Cup participation after the 2026 North American affair.

If you attended the same law school as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, you're in his good grace ... and in a pole position for a prime role at the agency. Just ask Will Holloway.

To get the Classic Hits on the air, it's been using a Class A FM in Williamstown, Ky.; a Class A FM serving neighboring Dayton, Ohio; and a Class A FM with a tower in Middletown, Ohio, to reach its radio audience. This has left a reception hole in downtown Cincinnati and the hipster communities on the south side of the Ohio River in Covington, Dayton and Newport, Ky. That signal gap has just been filled for WKRP.

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Opp'n to Pet. for Writ of Mandamus - In re Media and Democracy Project

He's been the Director of Engineering at WCVB-5, the flagship station of Hearst Television, since 2023. Now, he's being promoted to a company-wide role as Regional Director of Engineering, spreading his knowledge base to other properties within the Hearst family.

It's a deal brokered by Kalil & Co., and it will see two of the Cuban American communities' most-storied AM radio stations come under the ownership of the Boca Raton, Fla.-based organization best known for "The Rob Carson Show" and for is eponymous conservative-leaning cable TV news network.

OET grant the request of Vantiva USA LLC for a waiver of Sections 2.932(b) and 2.1043(b) of the Commission's rules to permit it to make necessary Class I and Class II permissive hardware changes .

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The former Vimeo and Tubi exec succeeds Witz, who spent two decades at SXM

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