As RBR+TVBR first reported on Monday, iHeartMedia suffered an $8 million quarterly loss in Q3 2026. One culprit was lower-than-anticipated political advertising revenue. That seems to be a sore spot with the company's shareholders, sending shares southward on Tuesday. Meanwhile, "TSQ" has also shrunk in value.
The future of "Lightning 100" is in question for listeners of this heritage Nashville station, as its longtime owner has just sold it. The buyer? It is a globally famous entertainer known for his friends in low places. For longtime listeners, the "Lightning" brand will be on the move. And, it could bring a bigger audience.
"Yes." That was the one-word response to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz's query to Trump FCC Commissioner nominee Danielle Thumann Severs regarding how she feels about "weaponization" of the Commission by political influence.
Over roughly 75 minutes — following a 45-minute delay — there were plenty of verbal protests from Democrats over the very nature of Danielle Thumann Severs' consideration to serve as a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. Key Democratic leaders were absent.
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The Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer of Sinclair Inc. has agreed to participate in a pair of institutional investor conferences on the calendar for early December. One event is in tony Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. — one week after he spends time at The Boca Raton in Palm Beach County, Fla.
Upon review of the Q3 2026 earnings reports filed by publicly traded broadcast media companies, it's abundantly clear that political advertising gravitated heavily toward TV. That impacted the nation's largest media company superserving African American consumers, among a host of other continuing challenges.
There's a new product feature for the iHeartRadio app now activated that has been designed to give users the ability to "simply and quickly" toggle back and forth between full-function mode and the "just essentials" Lite Mode found on the live and on-demand audio app — — depending on their usage and needs at any time.
Vizrt has announced that it has built a proof-of-concept integration with the Story Object Model (SOM), an open standard for story context in content production that was first shown at IBC 2026 as part of the Smart Stories Accelerator project.
While the whole of South Florida is today a ribbon of flags and voices representing all of Latin America, Cuban Americans remain a vital part of the political and economic engine that is El Gran Miami. That could explain why an individual who has spoken out against loosening the 39% national broadcast TV ownership reach cap has decided to acquire two of the most historically important radio stations to Cubans outside of Cuba.
Most Americans say it’s crucial to keep up with key news topics. However, far fewer say they’re highly informed themselves. That's the big takeaway from a study from Pew Research Center worth a renewed look after its initial release earlier this year.
News/Talk still tops the dial, Adult Contemporary still leads music, and younger listeners are finding their favorites in Country, Pop, and Alternative. Nielsen’s latest quarterly look at radio formats finds steady listening across the board as football season kicked off and baseball headed to its pennant races.
Yes, there was an $8 million quarterly loss for the nation's largest owner of broadcast radio stations and biggest creator of audio content in the U.S., as political revenue fell short of the company's goal. That said, iHeartMedia has enjoyed sizable growth in its podcast revenue — so much that it will become its own reporting segment in 2027.
MediaCo's lenders are handing it another short runway. The multicultural broadcaster has secured a one-month extension on a key loan, but the agent's acknowledgment that defaults are continuing keeps the pressure on a company already carrying a going concern warning from its auditors.
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There's upward momentum this week at Spot TV for a venerable QSR brand that revolutionized hamburger consumption with "Speedy" and then brought in the kids with the clown named "Ronald." It's welcome news from the Golden Arches — especially after it cancelled its global FIFA World Cup participation after the 2026 North American affair.
If you attended the same law school as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, you're in his good grace ... and in a pole position for a prime role at the agency. Just ask Will Holloway.
To get the Classic Hits on the air, it's been using a Class A FM in Williamstown, Ky.; a Class A FM serving neighboring Dayton, Ohio; and a Class A FM with a tower in Middletown, Ohio, to reach its radio audience. This has left a reception hole in downtown Cincinnati and the hipster communities on the south side of the Ohio River in Covington, Dayton and Newport, Ky.
That signal gap has just been filled for WKRP.
He's been the Director of Engineering at WCVB-5, the flagship station of Hearst Television, since 2023. Now, he's being promoted to a company-wide role as Regional Director of Engineering, spreading his knowledge base to other properties within the Hearst family.
It's a deal brokered by Kalil & Co., and it will see two of the Cuban American communities' most-storied AM radio stations come under the ownership of the Boca Raton, Fla.-based organization best known for "The Rob Carson Show" and for is eponymous conservative-leaning cable TV news network.
