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Sometimes, you don't need a bigger budget to be remembered, just the right channel. Katz Radio Group's latest brand lift study found that a localized over-the-air radio campaign strengthened three key areas for a regional bank with national competitors.

Television broadcasters just got their regulatory win; is radio next? The NAB says the FCC's recent move to loosen national TV ownership limits has created new momentum for the continued fight over how many radio stations a single company can own in a market.

The debt Connoisseur took on in its Alpha Media acquisition is reshaping who can invest in the company. The FCC approved the broadcaster's request to allow up to 100% foreign equity ownership, clearing a path around a cap that pending transactions threatened to trigger.

Ask a successful program director what they're proud of, and you may expect it to be the ratings book, but it turns out that what comes up instead is people: the ones who showed up, raised the money, earned the awards, and in some cases, changed entire communities.

(Loyd Ford) Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all know “The more people you see, the more people you sell.” But local radio selling was never meant to happen entirely through email attachments and texts. Radio is a relationship business, and relationships grow faster face-to-face.

(Steve Allan) Contesting on the radio is almost as old as the medium itself. Most stations today are stuck with the nationwide cash contest. Most of the winners come from somewhere else. Nothing screams local like hearing a winner with a thick Boston accent on a promo in Louisville.

Ed Levine is stepping down as head of Galaxy Media Partners. The company's Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer plans to retire later this year after 36 years leading the Central and Upstate New York broadcaster he built into a regional player.

Days after a contentious ownership deregulation vote split the FCC along party lines, the commission's Republican majority could soon grow by one. President Donald Trump has picked Danielle Thumann Severs, a senior counsel to Chairman Brendan Carr, to fill one of two open commissioner seats.

Nielsen is betting on independent verification, agreeing to acquire ad-quality firm DoubleVerify in an all-cash deal that pulls the ratings firm deeper into digital advertising as part of a deal it calls an extension of changes already underway at the company.

Search traffic has been sliding for two years as AI platforms answer questions directly instead of sending users to click through. New measurement framework from the IAB gives radio groups running digital news and content a vocabulary for tracking that exposure.