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The nation's leading audio content creator and distributor released its third quarter earnings report immediately after the closing of U.S. financial markets on Monday, and as Bob Pittman and the executive leadership team at iHeartMedia see it, they're pleased with the Q3 2025 performance.

Add Salem Media Group to the list of broadcasting companies that are experiencing a decline in their net broadcast revenue as they seek to find pathways to new digital riches. In Q3, digital media revenue was down by a mere $343,000. Broadcast revenue? That declined by 11.6%.

There's a new leader that's gained oversight of the four FM radio stations owned by Cox Media Group, and it is an individual who since 2022 has been overseeing CMG's operations in Jacksonville. The change comes as the current head of CMG's South Florida stations is exiting to pursue a new opportunity.

One deal is designed to make broadcast radio programmatic for politics "and beyond." The other involves the primary social media platform of choice for Generation Alpha and the current high schooler cool crowd. Both were just inked by the nation's biggest audio content creation and distribution company.

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The big takeaway is that digital revenue is increasing for Beasley Media Group. But, when could it fully offset the bigger challenges facing Beasley and its peers? It could all depend on how the company is "aggressively retooling" its sales organizations as Caroline Beasley made it clear the Q3 results are dissastisfactory.

Addressing the ongoing core advertising decline in the broadcast sector, Michael Kupinski of Noble Capital wants to know when stabilization will be seen? The answer from the head of Townsquare Media: not anytime soon.

When it comes to Washington politics, it's just another oversight hearing for the FCC conducted by the unit of Congress that is responsible for keeping tabs on the agency. For some journalists, it's a big event, as it will see Brendan Carr on Capitol Hill for the first time since September's Jimmy Kimmel Live! flap.

Miller Kaplan Partner Andrew Rosen will moderate a panel of "revenue campaign managers" at Forecast 2026, joined by Hearst Television EVP/Group Head Eric Meyrowitz, WPP Media's Jen Soch, Beasley Media Group Chief Revenue Officer Tina Murley, and Futuri President/Enterprise Partnerships Erin Callaghan.

The impact of those pesky macroeconomic headwinds and the lack of strong political advertising revenue in a non-Olympic year was clearly seen in the third quarter for the company that Nexstar Media Group intends to acquire, pending regulatory approval that will begin when the federal government reopens.