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Halloween delivers costumes, candy, and one last chance to lock in early bird pricing for Forecast 2027. When the final trick-or-treater heads home on October 31, the discount goes with them, and the only thing worth fearing this season is a higher registration bill.

Tight wallets are handing radio a chance to prove its value. With consumers weighing every purchase, a new Katz Radio Group study shows where attention lands in radio advertising, and Nielsen modeling shows how moving part of a budget to AM/FM can reach more people for the same money.

Mid-sized operators continue to shed large swaths of their radio holdings, spot revenue keeps sliding, and lenders keep their distance. Yet the industry’s leading media brokers aren’t writing an obituary. They see a market being rebuilt, one focused operator at a time.

(Jeff McHugh) Think back to the last time you spoke to an audience. How well did you do? How do you know?

Where does the money go if Urban One sells its Charlotte real estate? Holders of the company's top-ranking bonds have now widened the answer, allowing proceeds to buy back lower-ranking debt, fund new investments in Charlotte, or both, as long as the numbers work.

Hope Media Group's top content job is going away. Scott Herrold revealed on social media that his Chief of Content position has been eliminated. He will spend the next three weeks wrapping up a run dating to the Way Media and KSBJ Educational Foundation merger.

A second batch of conversations is headed to Cleveland. Buzz Knight Media Productions has had new episodes of two music podcasts accepted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives, adding to a collection that began with Knight's first donation in 2024.

Local broadcasting needs leaders who understand the business and the community in equal measure, and a New York program is trying to build them. The state broadcasters association has graduated its Rising Leaders Fellowship Class of 2026 from sales, news, finance, and podcast roles.

Radio syndication and podcasting are now one business at Gemini XIII. United Stations Radio Networks, which Gemini XIII bought in 2023, will no longer operate as its own brand, and its programming moves into the new Gemini Networks alongside two podcast networks.

Radio reaches most Latino voters, and a Latino civic leader says that gives broadcasters a job no one else can do as Election Day closes in. Her message to stations is to help listeners vote early and to pledge to deliver accurate and factual information.