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“We had warned, inferred and other people had also reported already that the first quarter was a very tough quarter,” Urban One CEO Alfred Liggins III said as the company opened its Q1 2026 earnings call on May 14. Will the second quarter see Urban One turn the corner? We'll find out on the first Tuesday in August.

Athletes don’t become great by doing just one exercise. So why should public speakers train by doing only one thing? Veteran communications and PR industry executive Rosemary Ravinal shares some unique ways a media industry C-Suite executive can excel at public speaking.

The man who heads Salem Media's digital marketing agency has revealed that he's commenced plans to retire, concluding a lengthy tenure at the radio station owner and publishing house parent focused on conservative secular political discourse and non-secular Christian talk and teaching programming.

The USL franchise bringing professional soccer to Indianapolis will see five of its matches air on the ABC affiliate owned by Circle City Broadcasting across the remainder of the season. Coverage on WRTV-6 begins on Saturday (7/18), with an evening matchup with Detroit City FC and Indy Eleven.

Radio’s top sellers, managers, and support staff will get their moment in the City of New York this autumn as the Radio Wayne Awards return to open NAB Show New York. Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink and the NAB are teaming up again for the ceremony, with submissions opening on Monday for the sales honors.

Radio World’s “times” evolve with the times

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Are you getting bored with Netflix's viewing selections, despite its vast library of content? That's a chief concern of the streaming video Goliath as it looks ahead to forthcoming fiscal quarters, with keeping subscribers interested at all times the chief way it will continue to make a profit.

At Noon Pacific on Wednesday, July 22, a new era will begin for a venerable Classic Rock station serving the South Bay region of the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose DMA for a generation.  This will see Connoisseur Media shift the station from a 10kw Class B FM with two boosters to a pair of HD2 signals. 

But blind tests reveal that human voices are trusted more than those artificially created

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Some 47 Republican Members of the House of Representatives have written to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to express their "strong support" of the Commission's ongoing review of TV parental guidelines "to ensure that children are not being indoctrinated with radical gender ideology behind their parents' backs."