iHeart To Bring AI Buying To Broadcast Radio By Year’s End
Butler/Till and iHeartMedia have completed what they call the ad industry's first agentic streaming audio media buy, with an AI agent executing a real media transaction within human-set rules. Broadcast radio inventory access is planned for later this year.
Stars Align For Mahlman In Brokerage Intelligence Partnership
Starbrook Broadcast Intelligence has partnered with Mahlman Radio & Tower Brokerage to connect broadcast stakeholders to geospatial analysis and ownership intelligence to help identify acquisition and divestiture opportunities across the United States.
Silence Your Inner Critic
Self-talk is the conversation you have with yourself. It shapes how you handle stress, motivation, mistakes, and everyday challenges. For creative media personalities, that conversation is especially critical.
Audacy: Hometown Voices Fuel Radio’s Live Sports Boom
Sports fans have more ways than ever to follow their teams, from linear TV and streaming services to apps and social platforms. Yet radio play-by-play is having a moment, according to new Audacy research, thanks to the enduring power of the hometown voice.
Salem Media Goes Private as WaterStone Completes Acquisition
Salem Media's sale to Christian nonprofit WaterStone has officially closed, ending the Christian conservative broadcaster's almost three-decade run as a public company and crystallizing the relationship both organizations have been building toward since 2024.
Court Nixes Nielsen Rehearing; Clock Ticking On Cumulus Edict
A federal appeals court has denied Nielsen's rehearing bid to stop an injunction in its antitrust dispute with Cumulus Media. Now Cumulus wants a mandate about pricing within the week, as it races to preserve access to Nationwide ratings before September.
WTOP Leader Joel Oxley To Receive NAB National Radio Award
A career spent turning one Washington newsroom into the country's top-billing radio station is earning Joel Oxley one of the industry's highest honors. NAB will present the President and GM of Hubbard Radio Washington, DC, with the National Radio Award.
National Radio Day: Why Radio Is Worth Celebrating
In honor of National Radio Day, Radio Ink put one question to a mix of executives, association leaders, and voices from across the industry: What makes radio worth celebrating? Their answers, in their own words, follow.
Radio’s Best Managers Say It All In Two Sentences
Radio's Best Managers have limited time for theoretical discussions. They operate in a fast environment and are expected to act even faster. So when Radio Ink asked them to sum up their management philosophy for our September issue, we kept it quick: two sentences.
IAB: Audio Has Entered Its ‘Accountability Era,’ On Par With Digital
A new IAB Media Center report finds that identity resolution and attribution tools are finally bringing traditional over-the-air radio, which still reaches 87% of US adults weekly, into the same measurement frameworks used across digital media, and marketers need to know it.
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