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AI use may be getting more acceptable in the marketing workflow, but local advertisers are drawing a line around what they expect to pay for it. New Borrell Associates data shows rising concerns about AI accuracy, disclosure, and paying human rates for machine-generated work.

Declining radio revenue and sweeping layoffs on one side, aggressive cost-cutting and a radically reshaped balance sheet on the other. That is the balancing act depicted by Cumulus Media in its Q2 earnings report, as the broadcaster prepares to go private.

Independent measurement is becoming marketers' best defense against a platform-driven ad market, according to new research projecting AI-influenced self-serve platforms will handle more than 80% of US ad spend by 2028, a shift already reaching radio sellers.

Beasley Media Group's second quarter had a little bit of everything: a massive shift to net income thanks to its debt restructuring, continued revenue losses, and the revelation that its digital listening now outpaces its over-the-air audience for the first time in its history.

A courtroom win for Cumulus Media has not yet translated into relief on the ground. Even after the Second Circuit upheld an injunction against Nielsen in the companies' antitrust dispute, enforcement is being held up, sending both sides back before the judge who granted it.

"We don't have a broadcast radio audience challenge. We have a broadcast radio monetization challenge," is the continued diagnosis from iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman as America's largest radio operator bets the rest of its 2026 on politics and programmatic.

Television broadcasters just got their regulatory win; is radio next? The NAB says the FCC's recent move to loosen national TV ownership limits has created new momentum for the continued fight over how many radio stations a single company can own in a market.

Days after a contentious ownership deregulation vote split the FCC along party lines, the commission's Republican majority could soon grow by one. President Donald Trump has picked Danielle Thumann Severs, a senior counsel to Chairman Brendan Carr, to fill one of two open commissioner seats.

Waiting until the final weeks to run radio ads may be costing political campaigns real influence. New research from Georgia's 2026 gubernatorial primary ties sustained AM/FM advertising to stronger voter recall and support months before the ballots were counted.

Two years ago, Townsquare Media's Media Partnerships division did not exist. Now it is one of the company's fastest-growing sectors, creating revenue even as an FCC license impairment charge pushed the broader business into a reported net loss for Q2 2026.