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Radio's community work is getting its own spotlight at the Gracie Awards. A new local radio category honors PSAs and community engagement, joining a podcast division and other additions as the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation opens entries for its 52nd edition.

Midterm fever, a squeezed economy, and a crowded dashboard are shaping public radio's next chapter. Listener research presented this week finds loyal supporters giving more, an audience that keeps getting older, and a video habit that stations are only beginning to tap.

(Josh Brown) For most of music radio’s history, the format was the product. We built stations around carefully constructed playlists, clocks, rotations, categories, and rules. That made perfect sense when radio was the primary gatekeeper of music.

Another piece of legislation sought by broadcasters will have to wait. A last-minute effort to pass the NO FAKES Act in the Senate ran into an objection from a senator who has already voiced free-speech concerns, leaving the bill's future to a short post-election session.

Driving across the country with the radio on left the Washington, DC, station leader with a complaint and a challenge. Too many stations, he says, could have been anywhere in the US. His fix for a changing industry starts with doubling, even tripling, how local they sound.

Spanish Broadcasting System's bankruptcy plan that would put it in the hands of its creditors is drawing pushback from Hispanic media's marketing side. A trade group wants the FCC to look beyond the finances and weigh what the change could mean for Latinos.

Two Richmond stations have teed up a new tradition, and the first round was played for families who have lost a first responder. The inaugural golf outing raised money to help pay off mortgages and build custom homes for families and service members in need.

From the Great Recession to the AI boom, one reporter has been in the room for the stories that moved markets. Now ABC News Chief Business, Technology and Economics Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis joins Forecast 2027 to give her read on the economy.

Every great sales story in radio has a second story running underneath it: the log that got rebuilt at 4:45, the spot that got cut an hour before the deadline, the revision nobody saw coming. The people who handle those moments rarely get the credit. They get the blame when something slips, and silence when everything works.

Podcasting just mapped how a casual listener becomes a superfan, and radio programmers may recognize the route. New research says the path runs through the host, daily habit, and direct access, with a sizable group of near-superfans needing only a nudge to cross over.