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(Sponsored Content) The staffing model that built broadcast operations for decades is showing its age. A growing number of stations and groups are moving to a different approach, and the results are changing how leadership thinks about traffic entirely.

(Mike McVay) Over-the-Air may be the origination point for content, but the destinations are many for the endpoints of today’s entertainment, information, and community connection. Podcasting, Streaming, Social Media, Smart Speakers, and apps are all new attraction points.

(John Shomby) Over the past few years, a handful of companies have quietly reset expectations for how people work, lead, create, and consume. And like it or not, those expectations don’t stay in Silicon Valley. They show up in your studio and your ratings.

Topeka's Cat Country days are done. Cumulus Media has flipped KTOP to a simulcast of its Kansas City News/Talk station KCMO-AM. The format change follows Cumulus closing its Topeka studios in January and consolidating operations under Kansas City management.

Less than eight months after its launch, Beasley Media Group Detroit's Regional Mexican La Tricolor brand is losing one signal. Beasley has sold FM translator W228CJ, 93.5, to Birach Broadcasting for $450,000 in a move that reflects the company's ongoing asset trimming.

The Missouri Broadcasters Association grew its Hall of Fame with seven inductees at the annual convention held on June 5 at Margarita Lake Resort. Voice of the St. Louis Cardinals John Rooney emceed the evening, which included recognizing Denny Benne with the Distinguished Broadcaster Award. 

Seventy-two years in, the WHAS Crusade for Children is still raising millions. The annual Louisville-area radio and telethon, broadcast across iHeartMedia's News Radio 840 (WHAS) and WHAS-TV, raised $6,235,132.76; the second-highest total in the event's history.

In a direct response to a string of cyberattacks where bad actors exploited unsecured broadcast equipment to inject unauthorized audio, the FCC is moving to lock down the nation's emergency alert infrastructure, and radio stations are on the clock to comply.

Far beyond job security and trust fears, AI could pose another threat to radio broadcasters, per FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty. Trusty warned that AI tools are being used to mine public FCC filings to identify and specifically target communications infrastructure.

New York broadcasters may soon have a legal tool to fight back against AI that secretly scrapes their news content. The New York State Legislature passed legislation that would prohibit automated bots from disguising their identities when accessing station websites.