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ESPN’s Latest Layoffs Continue the Slow Death of Sports Media’s Middle Class

"After 30 years in sports media, the most valuable lesson I've learned is also the simplest. The audience falls in love with people. The business falls in love with numbers, and the numbers always win."

The Subscription Question Hanging Over SiriusXM’s Deal With Audacy

"The real challenge isn't adding great content. It's convincing consumers to change habits they've spent years developing. Netflix is learning in real time that paying for exclusive access to content people already enjoy elsewhere doesn't automatically persuade them to open their wallets. SiriusXM now faces a similar test."

92.5 WXTU’s Nicole Michalik Discusses Crossing Over From Pop to Country

"If vinyl records can have a sexy comeback so can radio."

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Holds a Radio Strategy Secret

Shark Week works because it's built, engineered, and marketed

News/Talk Radio Leaders Share How to Handle Transition and the First 100 Days as Donald Trump Returns to the White House

"The nature of any PD is going to be to tinker, and to adjust and make, make changes,. And I think the really good ones stop and say, 'Let me make a good assessment.'"

How Nielsen Can Address Radio Ratings Concerns in the Wake of Natural Disasters

The company should put together an industry presentation with broad results on Los Angeles audio usage and a comprehensive release with specific information.

The Lesson Radio Can Learn from the Latest CES Event in Las Vegas

Most of what you see and hear at CES isn’t at all what the future will be like, or it’s an overblown, overstated version of what’s coming next.

Ben Ferguson to Host a Donald Trump-Centric Podcast, ‘The 47 Morning Update’, for iHeartPodcasts

The show will release new episodes on a Monday through Saturday basis.

Freedom 96.9 in Oklahoma City Adds Lee Matthews for Afternoons

"As of today, I am going to inaugurate an all-new version of The Drive with Lee Matthews."

How KFI-AM 640 and 790 KABC Enacted Their Disaster Plans and Fought Adversity to Cover the LA Wildfires

Los Angeles is a unique market for several reasons. One of them -- especially from a news/talk radio perspective -- is because of the...

Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban, App to Face U.S. Extinction Unless Sold by ByteDance

A sale of the social media app would need to be approved by China, with experts alleging that would be an unlikely outcome.

CNN Eyes Wolf Blitzer for Morning Role Which Would Move Jim Acosta to Overnights

Wolf Blitzer has hosted an afternoon show at CNN since 2005.

How TV Networks — From Fox News and CNN to ABC News and NBC News — Are Planning to Cover the Inauguration of Donald...

The historic inauguration will be the focus of the news world on Monday. Here is how each network plans to cover the event.

Ratings Roundup: NBC Nightly News Sees Highest Audience in 5 Months, Newsmax Jumps Into Top 25 in Primetime

More than 7 million people tuned into the program anchored by Lester Holt last week.

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The Subscription Question Hanging Over SiriusXM’s Deal With Audacy

"The real challenge isn't adding great content. It's convincing consumers to change habits they've spent years developing. Netflix is learning in real time that paying for exclusive access to content people already enjoy elsewhere doesn't automatically persuade them to open their wallets. SiriusXM now faces a similar test."

92.5 WXTU’s Nicole Michalik Discusses Crossing Over From Pop to Country

"If vinyl records can have a sexy comeback so can radio."

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Holds a Radio Strategy Secret

Shark Week works because it's built, engineered, and marketed

New Game Lets Radio Pros Win the Ratings War

"The way that the game is developed, the FCC ownership regulations match the time. It gradually loosens to what we have today,"