With eyes and ears everywhere looking for an easy scoop or twisting words for a headline, every press release, earnings call, or public statement must be scrutinized and sanitized, but the real issues need to have a last safe forum for discussion.
Forecast 2027 is that somewhere. It’s where the CEOs of radio’s largest groups sit across from independent Main Street operators, where opposing politics and philosophies meet, and where leaders can have honest conversations about where this business is headed.
Consider what that’s worth. You could pay a stable of consultants and still only get a faint approximation of the financial, political, legal, and business lessons shared on Forecast’s stage. You could spend every day for five years on LinkedIn and never get the introductions you will over a single day in that room. The ticket is worth every penny.
Last year, Radio Ink and Radio + Television Business Report closed our detailed coverage of Forecast’s panels to restore the environment that made this event legendary. That continues this year. Forecast is closed to press. The sessions won’t be posted to YouTube. You won’t even find these lessons in our headlines the next morning.
If you’re thinking you’ll catch it later for free, you won’t. The only way to hear these conversations is to invest in yourself. Be in the room.
And that’s only one session in a day built entirely around this kind of forward-looking intelligence. Attendees will also learn from:
- Marketer and best-selling author Larry Bailin keynote on digital disruption with “The Future Belongs to Those that Can Hear It Coming.”
- “Broadcast on the Docket: Power, Policy, and Pressure in Washington,” a panel on how Washington’s broadcast decisions get made, moderated by Frank Montero with Nic Anderson, Joe Di Scipio, and Rick Kaplan.
- “Converged Broadcast: The Cross-Media Radio, TV, and AI Playbook,” a panel on braiding newsrooms, sales, and AI into one operation, moderated by Heidi Raphael with Caroline Beasley, Tanya Vea, Phil Brooks, and Brock Berry.
- Revenue leaders from Cox, Hearst, BIA, and WPP Media break down where 2027 broadcast growth is coming from and how stations can capture it through AI targeting, data-driven selling, and digital and CTV expansion.
- Lifetime Leadership Awards honoring Harvey Nagler and Valari Dobson Staab, presented jointly by Radio Ink and RBR+TVBR.
- A Broadcast Leadership cocktail hour honoring Radio Ink’s 40 Most Powerful People in Radio and RBR+TVBR’s Top Broadcast Television Leaders.
Join us at Forecast 2027, set for November 12 at the Harvard Club of New York City. Forecast limits seating to keep the room intimate so you can network with the industry’s top players. Reserve your seat today.
About Forecast
Now in its 24th year, Forecast is the broadcast industry’s premier leadership conference, bringing together the station owners, CFOs, group executives, and Wall Street analysts for a full day of invaluable data-driven sessions on the business of radio and television.
