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The Broadcasters Foundation of America's 2026 Summer Sessions arrives in New York City on BFOA Giving Day, Thursday, June 25, with a free Media Mixer hosted by Z100 (WHTZ) personality Maxwell, a special appearance by former CBS Radio executive Dan Mason, and a performance by The Voice alumna Carolina Rial.

Radio has enough raw statistics and data to keep us occupied until the end of time. Ratings measure reach. Revenue measures impact. But neither captures what actually happens between a host and a listener in the moments that matter most. And that's real radio.

The FCC unanimously approved four items at its May open meeting, including modernization of the Disaster Information Reporting System, consolidating a decade-old filing structure long flagged as a bottleneck for radio during active disaster recovery.

The dollars keep climbing. Saga Communications' Charlottesville Media Group closed out its 11th annual Cares for Kids Radiothon with $66,446 raised for UVA Health Children's, topping last year's total and pushing the event's lifetime fundraising past $660,000.

Your competitors would prefer you don’t show up. They don’t want you to soak up the information and engage in the conversations about the future of Hispanic radio. Your colleagues will be sorry they missed you at the 16th Hispanic Radio Conference.

TelevisaUnivision is really for La Radio del Mundial, partnering with Fútbol de Primera to carry live, play-by-play FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage across its flagship stations in New York, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago, running June 11 through July 19.

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation celebrated its 75th anniversary in style Tuesday night, presenting the 51st Annual Gracie Awards at the Beverly Wilshire and honoring women reshaping journalism, podcasting, entertainment, sports, and indie media.

The FCC's foreign ownership remediation process just got some extra rules, and as Connoisseur Media moves fast on buying and selling stations while seeking approval for foreign funds, Tuesday's Media Bureau guidance set down some speed bumps.

Local digital advertising is still growing, just not the way it used to. Borrell Associates laid out the new math with help from some radio executives in its annual benchmarking webinar: the rising tide is gone, and the companies that adapt are already pulling ahead.

NPR is cutting newsroom jobs for the second time in three years, offering voluntary buyouts—with potential layoffs to follow—as President and CEO Katherine Maher works to close an $8 million budget gap left by the elimination of federal subsidies for public media.