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After 40 years of leadership at WISC-3, its leader will retire at the end of 2024. It marks the conclusion of what Morgan Murphy Media calls "a sweeping and successful career as a broadcasting executive, entrepreneur, interim executive and board member for major media, healthcare, digital, for-profit and non-profit organizations."

The dynamic worlds of media and technology are converging at breakneck speed. How can broadcast organizations not only keep up with the changes, but also strategically get the edge on the competition? An individual who has helped to make the CES conference a must-attend for radio and TV industry leaders discussed this at Forecast 2025. 

Multi-channel advertising platform StackAdapt is partnering with the owner of the Crave OTT platform that's home to HBO programming in Canada — as well as MVPD-distributed sports network TSN and broadcast network CTV — to enable its premium inventory across connected TV, display, video, digital out-of-home and audio channels.

"Ambitious" small and medium-sized businesses seeking to grow their consumer base, and sales, turned to multiscreen television across the first half of 2024 to achieve measurable results. In fact, new VAB data indicate some 169 first-time TV advertisers spent $380 million through June 30 of this year across some 43 categories.

The latest installment of "The Gauge" from Nielsen indicates that the broadcast category exhibited 7% monthly growth and added 1.4 share points in October to finish at 24.0% of total time spent watching television—its largest monthly share of TV since January.

Aiir Product Specialist Lee Price, who becomes product lead, commented, "We’re expanding our AI offering and rebranding Radio News AI to Audio.co with the introduction of a powerful new commercial production toolset."

Jācapps, the Jacobs brothers radio mobile app-focused business, has rolled out a new product in association with their Jacobs Media research company that "takes radio clients on a journey to generate revenue by just having an app with an audience."

AI-powered creative audio studio Wondercraft is partnering with audio management platform Frequency on an integration initiative designed to let brands and media publishers produce and deploy personalized audio ad campaigns at scale.

“I want to congratulate Commissioner Carr on the announcement by the President-elect that he will serve as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission." That's the official statement from the soon-to-be-outgoing Chairwoman of the agency, who did not mention President-elect Trump by name.

Finnish station's latest AI move is a Radio.Cloud-powered presenter, Anni

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