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One deal is designed to make broadcast radio programmatic for politics "and beyond." The other involves the primary social media platform of choice for Generation Alpha and the current high schooler cool crowd. Both were just inked by the nation's biggest audio content creation and distribution company.

Co-branded podcast studios are in L.A., New York and Atlanta

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The big takeaway is that digital revenue is increasing for Beasley Media Group. But, when could it fully offset the bigger challenges facing Beasley and its peers? It could all depend on how the company is "aggressively retooling" its sales organizations as Caroline Beasley made it clear the Q3 results are dissastisfactory.

Addressing the ongoing core advertising decline in the broadcast sector, Michael Kupinski of Noble Capital wants to know when stabilization will be seen? The answer from the head of Townsquare Media: not anytime soon.

When it comes to Washington politics, it's just another oversight hearing for the FCC conducted by the unit of Congress that is responsible for keeping tabs on the agency. For some journalists, it's a big event, as it will see Brendan Carr on Capitol Hill for the first time since September's Jimmy Kimmel Live! flap.

Miller Kaplan Partner Andrew Rosen will moderate a panel of "revenue campaign managers" at Forecast 2026, joined by Hearst Television EVP/Group Head Eric Meyrowitz, WPP Media's Jen Soch, Beasley Media Group Chief Revenue Officer Tina Murley, and Futuri President/Enterprise Partnerships Erin Callaghan.

The impact of those pesky macroeconomic headwinds and the lack of strong political advertising revenue in a non-Olympic year was clearly seen in the third quarter for the company that Nexstar Media Group intends to acquire, pending regulatory approval that will begin when the federal government reopens.

MS NOW, the cable TV network that will soon change its name from MSNBC following its spin to newly created Versant from NBCUniversal and Comcast, has chosen AccuWeather to fuel its forecasts and coverage of all-things related to climate.

Townsquare Media, with more than half of its revenue across the first three quarter of 2025 coming from Digital sources, swung to a net loss in Q3. A non-cash impairment charge is reflected in these results. But is there something more the C-Suite team led by CEO Bill Wilson should take note of?

One of the world's biggest retailers has stepped up its holiday shopping marketing and promotional efforts, and that's resulted in a big increase in the number of spot plays for the brand detected at broadcast TV by Media Monitors.