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A US senator's complaint to the FCC accused radio stations of trading airtime for free artist performances. Eighteen months later, that tip has landed iHeartMedia in a settlement, in which the company pledges to overhaul its sponsorship disclosure practices.

As questions about the ethics of unapproved AI-generated images of real people continue across all areas of broadcasting, Meta's newest AI tool puts the social media leviathan inside the deepfake conversation broadcasters have been trying to get ahead of.

Every move of radio's most powerful sends ripples through stations, markets, and the people who depend on the industry to survive and grow. Radio Ink talked with those at the top about what they see as the most important duty of those holding power within radio.

Two Florida market leaders are sharing their revenue playbooks in The Encouragers: The Radio Rally's Q3 Radio Sales Event. Cox Media Group's Brian McGhee and ADX Communications' Jeff Wayne headline "How Local Radio Wins The Next Revenue Battle."

Weeks after closing on it, Connoisseur Media is already parting with the frequency housing Bay Country 94.5 (KBAY) in a seven-figure deal with Christian radio giant K-LOVE. Fans of the Bay Area staple shouldn't be alarmed, though; the station itself is sticking around.

Broadcasters just got their first real refresh of self-inspection checklists since 2024, as NAB and the Society of Broadcast Engineers rolled out new self-inspection guides for AM and FM stations.

Cumulus Media Regional Vice President Don Boyd is adding oversight of 16 stations across Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and New Orleans, LA, and Columbus-Starkville, MS, alongside his previous domain of Mobile, AL, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola, FL.

The FCC has approved iHeartMedia's petition to expand its foreign ownership authorization, clearing the way for new investors tied to the United Kingdom's largest commercial radio company, while keeping the broadcaster's aggregate foreign ownership cap unchanged.

(Paige Nienaber) One of my favorite talents is Laura Daniels with Cumulus Buffalo; she's always reveled in the most random of topics, whether she's channeling her inner Michael Phelps or perfecting her FarmersOnly profile. Radio is at its best when it's topical. It's the stuff Spotify could never do.

Radio listeners can't reliably tell an AI-generated voice from a professional human read, and more than half are okay with a station using AI, per a new blind-listening study that found human and synthetic voices scoring nearly identical on trust, energy, and likability.