Headlines
Study: Three In Four Radio Advertisers Upping Or Maintaining Spend In '23
Just-released data from ad services and software company Mediaocean's mid-year outlook shows radio in the middle of the pack in terms of expected ad spend for this year.
Scripps Local Stations Now Airing Scripps News National-Focused Content
In a post on the Scripps News LinkedIn page, the group's president, Kate O'Brian, announced today that Scripps local stations have begun airing national-focused content produced first for Scripps News.
BIA
BIA Advisory Services Unveils MAPro Breeze for Broadcast Industry Data
The service makes finding and using data from MAPro easier and faster
Mergers & Acquisitions
SCOTUS Declines To Reconsider 2008 Bankruptcy Sale of Alabama FM
On July 24, 2008, a trustee representing an Alabama licensee of broadcast radio stations signed off on the $1.1 million sale, in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction, of a radio station that had been at 93.7 MHz from 1969 and in 2015 moved to 93.5 MHz, moving north to the Montgomery area from the Dothan market.
FCC
FCC Sets Transmission Path for Next Gen TV Simulcasts, Multicasts
Adopts licensing rules of the road to ATSC 3.0
REC Networks Proposes Series Of ‘Safeguards’ For Next FM Translator Filing Window
Even as the Federal Communications Commission gears up for this fall’s filing window for new low-power FMs, some are already looking beyond that to when it is expected that the FCC will move to open a new FM translator window.
Radio
How Radio Stations Should Be Thinking About AI
Since the introduction of Chat GPT, followed by Futuri's RadioGPT, the talk in the radio industry has been all about artificial intelligence. How will AI affect our industry?
Stop Talkin' 'Bout My G-G-Generation
Another day and another story about how brand managers need to be especially cognizant of generational needs, wants, and desires. These days, we're not fixated on “misunderstood Boomers.”
Tech
New AI Tool For Radio Promises Client-Specific Commercials In Under A Minute
Among the less controversial applications for AI in radio is using the technology for spot creative. Saga Communications, for example, sees potential for AI to help create the roughly 25,000 spec spots it produces a year.
