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The National Hockey League team serving the New York Tri-State Area from Long Island has parted ways with not only its President/GM but also the club's two longtime radio play-by-play voices. Islanders' radio coverage in recent years has been on thin ice. Now, the team will go with an audio simulcast of TV coverage.

It finished Wednesday's trading session on the Nasdaq at exactly $0.2699 and in immediate after-hours trading sank by 24%. Why? Investors likely learned of a SEC filing made following the close of trading indicating that Cumulus Media has decided to shift its publicly traded shares to the OTC Markets.

Edison Research recently released its "Share of Ear" report for the first quarter of 2025, and its chock full of useful findings radio industry executives can use to further tout its exceptional reach and ROI for advertisers. For Audacy SVP of Research and Insights Ray Borelli, one finding really stood out.

The Sports Talk radio station serving Ohio's capital city owned by a publicly traded company largely known for its broadcast TV stations is preparing for the May 12 debut of a new weekday lineup.

(By Paige Nienaber) May is a literal fountain of promotional opportunities, with Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day (more on that in a second), grads, and proms. Your window for proms is quickly closing, but you should always keep your ears open for a local prom story that would allow you to jump in and facilitate a solution.

(Josh Brown) In radio sales, optimism is valuable, but it’s not a strategy. If your approach to hitting sales goals is simply expecting tomorrow to be better, you’re setting yourself up for frustration. Success in this business comes from intentionality and discipline.

It was "Oxnard's Hit Music Station" and competed against a locally owned broadcast group for Contemporary Hit Radio listeners in the shadow of Los Angeles FMs. Now, this Class A FM covering most of Ventura County, Calif., is devoting its airtime to the Top 40 hits of yesteryear while keeping Los Angeles Dodgers broadcasts.

Twenty-one months after Cincinnati Public Radio made a significant stride toward its brand new office and studio space for the two FMs it operates, the global construction and development firm tasked with building the facilities has completed the project. It is notable, for it marks the first mass timber broadcast facility in the United States.

WZPP-LPFM 96.1, licensed to Hollywood, Fla., is licensed for 48 watts from a structure within the Miami-Fort Lauderdale "antenna farm" straddling the Miami-Dade and Broward County line, just east of Hard Rock Stadium. The FCC found that, in May 2024, its power output was 1,022 watts.

Audacy Inc. has agreed to a multi-year extension of its broadcast partnership with the University of Oregon. Under the renewed multiplatform agreement, KFXX-AM "1080 The Fan" in Portland, Ore., will continue as the flagship radio station for Oregon Ducks football, men’s basketball and baseball.