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After a year of financial uncertainty, radio ownership grew in the first quarter of 2024, according to FCC license records. Noncommercial FM numbers have soared in the past year, driven by aggressive buying from religious broadcasters.

In the hometown of Walmart, you’ll find a shipping container revamped to look like a mid-80s boom box. Inside the container is KOBV, Bentonville, Arkansas's community radio station, broadcasting music 24/7 to the local community and streaming worldwide.

Would-be Low Power FM operators made the most of the FCC's first LPFM filing window in a decade, with more than 1,300 applications submitted in December. Now the Media Bureau has released a Public Notice detailing its process for handling the applications.

Commercial AM and FM station ownership continued its downward trajectory in the final months of 2023, echoing the financial difficulties faced by operators over the year. The new data comes from the Federal Communications Commission's broadcast station total report.

The Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau has rescheduled the filing window for new low-power FM station construction permits. Originally slated to open for the first time in ten years from November 1 to November 8, the window has been pushed back to December.

The FCC has unveiled the most recent data on the number of licensed broadcast radio stations for Q3 2023. While the figures show a positive trend for radio, those numbers are buoyed entirely outside of the realm of AM and commercial FM.

The Federal Communications Commission has set a deadline for comment submissions on the Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to increase digital radio's over-the-air reach. The NPRM was published in the Federal Register on August 22.

WIN Radio Broadcasting Corp., the licensee of an FM translator in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NALF) in the amount of $7,500 by the Audio Division of the Media Bureau.

The FCC's Media Bureau has dismissed an approved application for one company's noncommercial FM station in Key West following a rival broadcaster's challenge. Key West Radio was originally chosen for the new station license in January.

WBPU 96.3 FM, an LPFM station serving St. Petersburg's Black communities, has had about $36,800 in funding pulled by the Pinellas County Commission. The action is the result of concerns expressed by a county commissioner over the association of the station with the Uhuru Movement, a political group with its headquarters in St. Petersburg.