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RAB Names Sabina Widmann Executive VP

The Radio Advertising Bureau has appointed Sabina Widmann as Executive Vice President, expanding the organization's focus on broadcaster initiatives, member engagement and industry support. In the newly created role, Widmann will oversee member engagement and success efforts, with responsibilities that include enhancing member services and expanding offerings. More

LPFM Advocacy Group Urges FCC to Modernize Rules

Low Power FM Advocacy Group (LPFM-AG)

The Low Power FM Advocacy Group (LPFM-AG) has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission urging regulators to recognize what it calls significant competitive disadvantages facing Low Power FM stations in today's audio marketplace. The filing, submitted in response to the FCC's proceeding More

MIW Names Christine Manika as Country Radio Mentee

Christine Manika

Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) has named Christine Manika as the third participant in its Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Country Radio mentorship program. Manika currently serves as Brand Manager and midday host for KIKN-FM and morning host for KXRB in Sioux Falls, SD. The year-long More

AM/FM Radio Dominates Audio Reach Among Kia Drivers

Cumulus Media | Westwood One Audio Active Group

A new blog post from Cumulus Media | Westwood One Audio Active Group highlights the continued dominance of AM/FM radio among Kia drivers, citing newly released data from Edison Research's "Share of Ear" study. The report, authored by Pierre Bouvard, Chief Insights Officer for Cumulus Media and Westwood More

Broadcasters Foundation Sets NYC Media Mixer for June 25

Broadcasters Foundation of America

The Broadcasters Foundation of America will host its latest Media Mixer on Thursday, June 25, at the New York City studios of iHeartMedia, bringing together broadcasting executives, on-air talent, and emerging industry professionals for an evening focused on networking and supporting More

FCC Sets Date for Foreign Sponsorship Rule Changes

Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau is reminding broadcasters that revised foreign sponsorship identification requirements for leased programming will officially take effect June 7. In a Public Notice released Tuesday, the FCC said the updated rules apply to new programming leases and More

WWI Returns as Home of Women's College World Series

Westwood One Sports

Westwood One will once again provide exclusive national audio coverage of the NCAA Division I Women's College World Series from OG&E Energy Field at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. Coverage begins Thursday, May 28 at 12pm ET and will continue through every game of the tournament, More

Margie Tasseff Retiring From iHeartMedia Ohio

Margie Tasseff

iHeartMedia has announced that longtime Mansfield and Marion Market President Margie Tasseff will retire effective June 1, ending a nearly 40-year career with the company. Tasseff currently oversees seven stations in Mansfield and three stations in Marion. She has served as Market President for the More

CMG Names Lauren Smith Senior Director of Digital Sales

Lauren Smith

Cox Media Group has appointed Lauren Smith as Senior Director of Digital Sales as the company continues expanding its digital revenue initiatives across its television and radio markets. In the new role, Smith will work directly with CMG's local radio & TV operations to support sales teams, lead More

Nueva Network Restructures Leadership Team

Nueva Network

Nueva Network and North Atlantic Media have announced a leadership reorganization aimed at expanding growth opportunities across audio, digital and multi-platform media operations. As part of the restructuring, Jeffery Liberman will assume strategic oversight responsibilities across both companies. More

Radio Network News Launches Using NewsCloud Platform

Newscloud and RNN

Radio Network News has officially launched in the United States using the NewsCloud platform developed by Radio.Cloud. NewsCloud is designed as a newsroom productivity and workflow system that allows journalists and anchors to write, localize, produce and distribute radio newscasts from a centralized More

Henkle's Ace Shows Power of Long-Term Radio Ads

Cumulus Media and Westwood

A new study commissioned by Cumulus Media and Westwood One highlights how long-term AM/FM radio advertising helped Henkle's Ace Hardware build strong brand awareness and customer loyalty in Joplin, Missouri. The research, conducted by Quantilope in January 2026 among 150 consumers in Joplin, found More

Brent Sears Named PD at Sound of Life

Brent Sears

WFGB (Sound of Life) in Kingston, NY, has named Brent Sears as its new Program Director. Sears will officially join the station in July after spending the past nine years with WAY-FM, most recently serving as station manager for the network's Denver operation. Bruce Barrows said Sears' arrival aligns More

Seaboard Networks Picks Up ''Unscaled Travel'' Show

The Unscaled Travel Radio Show

Seaboard Networks has signed on as the new distributor and syndicator for "The Unscaled Travel Radio Show," the weekly travel program hosted by husband-and-wife team Jeremy Long and Amy Long. The program currently airs on KOWS-FM in Santa Rosa, CA, and is also carried on digital stations across the More

OSRG Partners With Apollo Online Media

Open-Source Radio Group

Open-Source Radio Group has entered into a partnership with Apollo Online Media to expand music library access and curation services across the company's programming operations. Under the agreement, Open-Source Radio Group, operated by Justin Walters, will integrate Apollo Online Media's music libraries into More

Bob Bronson Retires From WROR Morning Show

Bob Bronson

Bob Bronson has retired from WROR, ending a broadcasting career that spanned decades in Boston, New York and other major markets. He officially signed off Friday from 105.7 WROR, where he co-hosted "The ROR Morning Show" alongside Lauren Beckham Falcone, known on-air as LBF. He returned to Boston radio in More

WSOC-FM Morning Team Retiring After 22 Years

Tanner in the Morning

Longtime WSOC-FM morning personalities Rob Tanner, Catherine Lane and Chris Allen will retire from their day-to-day roles following a 22-year run on the station's "Tanner in the Morning" show. The trio's final broadcast is scheduled for Friday, June 19. The morning show has been a fixture on Country More

Audacy Expands ABC News Audio Partnership

Audacy

Audacy announced it is expanding its relationship with ABC News Audio across many of its All-News and News/Talk radio outlets nationwide. The company said the expanded agreement will allow its stations to continue providing national and international news coverage from ABC News Audio while maintaining More

KDWB Launches New ''Falen & Colt'' Morning Show

Falen & Colt

iHeartMedia CHR KDWB-FM in Minneapolis has debuted a new morning show lineup, "Falen & Colt," following the retirement of longtime host Dave Ryan. The new program airs weekdays from 6-10am. Falen Bonsett returns to mornings after previously serving as Ryan's co-host from 2012 until 2023, when she More

CBS News Radio Signs Off After Nearly 100 Years

CBS News Radio

CBS News Radio will end operations Friday night, bringing to a close one of the most influential institutions in American broadcast journalism after nearly a century on the air. The network, which currently provides national news programming to approximately 700 affiliate stations across the country, is More

AM Radio Bill Added to House Transportation Package

Radio Dial

National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt praised the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for including the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act in its surface transportation reauthorization package, marking another step forward for the bipartisan legislation More

Netflix to Stream ''The Breakfast Club'' Live Daily

''The Breakfast Club''

iHeartMedia and Netflix announced that The Breakfast Club will begin streaming live daily on Netflix starting June 1, marking the platform's first weekday live daily program. The move expands the companies' previously announced video podcast partnership and brings the nationally syndicated radio show to a More

Changes & Moves

Bob Bronson

Bob Bronson has retired from WROR, ending a broadcasting career that spanned decades in Boston, New York and other markets. More

RAB Names Sabina Widmann Executive VP

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