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By Radio News Now Staff The National Association of Broadcasters supports allowing software-based Emergency Alert System operation, but says the FCC’s proposed 72-hour deadline for repairing or replacing defective EAS software...
By Radio News Now Staff Southern Cross Austereo’s LiSTNR is moving more than 150 podcasts to Flightcast, giving the young platform its largest network customer and making video-first distribution a major part of the deal. LiSTNR...
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Lionel Richie checked into a St. Louis hospital after his Aug. 29 concert. A tour source says the singer is OK; ICU and dehydration details remain unconfirmed by his representative.
Former KJLH colleagues Carl Nelson, Lee Michaels and Eric “Rico” Reed remember longtime journalist and public affairs leader Jacquie Stephens as an accomplished journalist, pioneering broadcaster and trusted voice whose legacy continues through the KJLH Women’s Health Forum.
CBS Pittsburgh is building an in-house AR/VR newsroom. Here is how the technology works, what viewers will see, and what radio can learn from it.
Global is taking The Overlap from YouTube into Disney+ while retaining free distribution and creator IP. Here is the business model broadcasters can copy.
ng rose 23% year over year, but average ad load hit a record 8.75%. Here is what the numbers mean for broadcasters and independent publishers.
Fans expecting to see Earth, Wind & Fire and Lionel Richie at San Francisco’s Chase Center on Thursday night were instead met with a last-minute announcement that the concert had been postponed because of a medical...
Harvey Stone guided KBLX for more than three decades and helped prove that an independent, minority-owned station could compete with broadcasting’s largest companies.
KCAL management says the personality-driven format was not profitable and clarifies that the replacement is not using AI voices. Professional voice talent and human music curators remain – but every on-air personality is still gone.
Radio News Now Staff The E.W. Scripps Company says technology will help put more...
The FCC has finalized Auction 114 for 132 FM construction permits. New entrants may qualify for bidding credits, but applicants must confront engineering, site, financing and operating costs before they bid.
Former KJLH colleagues Carl Nelson, Lee Michaels and Eric “Rico” Reed remember longtime journalist and public affairs leader Jacquie Stephens as an accomplished journalist, pioneering broadcaster and trusted voice whose legacy continues through the KJLH Women’s Health Forum.
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Zimmer Communications and Mid-West Family plan to combine nine Springfield, Missouri, radio stations under local ownership, pending FCC approval.
A Supreme Court ruling could weaken the political balance that was intended to keep the Federal...
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Published: July 5, 2025By: Lee Michaels – Radio News Now For decades, radio was the gatekeeper of...
🎼 Music Licensing 101: What Every Streamer & Podcaster Should KnowPublished: July 5, 2025By:...