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Continued strength in mobile advertising, coupled with a rise in political ad spend as the midterm elections near, has led BIA Advisory Services to update its 2026 U.S. Local Advertising Forecast. Now, it projects total local ad revenue to reach a dollar amount nearly 1% higher than its April estimate.

For National Spot TV activity, there's little dispute as to what the top brand by play count is. The No. 2 brand? Well, considering the start of the National Football League season and ramp-up of college football, there's hardly a surprise as to this advertiser activity.

Beasley Media Group has shared that it is deploying Futuri’s TopLine Enterprise AI revenue intelligence platform across all of its markets. The move is part of a multiyear agreement Beasley says is designed to "enhance" the company’s sales process and help local advertisers make more informed marketing decisions.

Wednesday, September 9, saw the man who has served as President of Zimmer Communications since September 1980 and since 2008 as the co-owner of Honolulu Coffee Company engage in key conversations "about the importance of ownership rules reform for small radio broadcasters" with all three FCC decisionmakers.

Some 111 local broadcast TV stations owned by Gray Media will now be able to distribute their local news and other station-originated programming to the nation, via the free streaming television platform owned by Allen Media Group.

Session topics include AM synchronous boosters and ATSC3 as a radio STL

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Here are the recipients of this year's awards

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The digital radio shift moves from rollout to resilience

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Appearance before Senate Commerce Committee will move her one step closer to confirmation

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A new white paper, presented jointly with Radio World

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