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Shotgun Tom Kelly, Boomer Esiason, Helen Little and Bob Pittman are among the eight honorees

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AI compiles scripts that are reviewed by humans

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Television had a notable presence among the honorees at the 51st Annual Gracie Awards, as the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation marked its 75th anniversary on Tuesday night at the Beverly Wilshire, honoring women who have reshaped media.

Silicon carbide MOSFETs deliver technical advantages, BE says

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Coming this summer to TelevisaUnivision: La Radio del Mundial, as the Spanish-language radio operator partners with Fútbol de Primera to carry live, play-by-play FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage across nine of its flagship AM/FM stations in New York, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago, running June 11 through July 19.

A professional tackle football circuit played on sand, founded by former NFL linebacker and two-time Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain, has signed iHeartRadio as its Official Audio and Radio Partner, with events already underway in California and destination stops planned across the country through 2027.

The FCC's May Open Meeting produced a unanimous vote on four items, including streamlining the DIRS, but after the meeting adjourned, Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Anna Gomez were far from one accord.  Separate press conferences offered starkly different accounts of where the commission is headed.

SiriusXM entered 2026 with record-low subscriber churn, three consecutive quarters of ARPU growth, and a YouTube deal that its CFO says will be material enough to reshape total company revenue. The strategy behind those results is more layered than its headline metrics suggest.

Paramount Skydance Corp. is headed for a one-notch credit downgrade at the close of its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, and S&P Global Ratings says the combined company has a long road back thanks to an enormous debt load.

Programmatic audio targeting just got more precise, as Triton Digital has expanded availability of contextual targeting and brand suitability capabilities from its Sounder.AI platform within The Trade Desk—enabling advertisers to move beyond show- or genre-level targeting and discover podcast inventory with greater precision and scale.