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NextKast announces the launch of StudioLink, a web-based interface designed to support modern radio station operations. The system focuses on enabling station workflow processes across multi-track voice tracking, advanced remote broadcast technology via NextKast’s GoLive, and music library management. 

It was first hinted at in June, now Urban One has received board approval to execute a reverse stock split aimed at restoring compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements for its Class D shares, restructuring all classes of its common stock at a 10-for-1 ratio.

Radio’s economics often get discussed in terms of audience reach or ad performance, but new data puts a far larger number on the board. A new economic analysis shows local radio and TV support more than $1.19 trillion in US GDP and 2.46 million jobs.

It’s time to recognize the leaders in radio who are shaping teams, guiding strategy, and setting the standard for what effective, empathetic leadership looks like. The call for entries for Radio Ink's 2026 Top 20 Leaders in Radio closes tonight!

Four radio executives joined Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio for a candid leadership discussion that cut past platitudes, focusing instead on practical guidance for managing change, building trust, and developing teams across sales and content.

(Randy Lane) We don’t “sit down” with content the way we once did. Today, we consume ideas, information, and entertainment in short, fast, compressed moments, clips instead of complete narratives. We scroll. We swipe. We sample. We move on.

Salem Media Group has penned an extension on Dan Proft’s contract, keeping the former WLS-AM talent in the morning drive chair on 560 The Answer (WIND-AM) through the end of 2027. Proft has hosted Chicago’s Morning Answer since 2015.

Eastlan Ratings has added more Top 100 markets to its continuous measurement footprint, expanding service in Honolulu, Reno, and Tulsa as the local radio ratings company remains at the center of Cumulus Media's ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Nielsen.

Last month, iHeartMedia revealed that Jon “Stugotz” Weiner was joining the company for a new syndicated radio companion to his Stugotz and Company podcast. We now know when Stugotz and Company LIVE! will debut in the afternoon lineup for FOX Sports Radio.

Two and a half years after the furor of “AI Ashley” introduced an artificial intelligence host to US radio, a Phoenix radio group is moving the concept beyond experimentation, opting for an entire on-air lineup of AI-generated talent on its new Alternative formatted signal.