The Infinite Dial, a study on digital audio from Edison Research, debuted in South Africa last week as Edison Research President Larry Rosin presented the findings in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The study was commissioned by South Africa's National More

Salem Media Group Shrinks Board to Reduce Costs

Salem Media Group

Salem Media Group has announced the resignation of board members James Keet Lewis, Jonathan Venverloh, Stuart W. Epperson Jr. and Edward C. Atsinger from its board of directors, effective September 11. SMG's CEO Edward G. Atsinger III commented, "The board More

FCC Postpones Open of 2019 Biennial Filing Window to Nov. 1

FCC

The Media Bureau has postponed the opening of the 2019 biennial filing window for the submission of broadcast ownership reports on FCC Form 323 and 323-E from October 1 to November 1, 2019, and extends the filing deadline from December 1 to January 31, 2020. All More

CRB Announces Fifth Installment of CRS360 Webinar Series

CRS 360

Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) will present the latest installment of its CRS360 webinar series on Tuesday, September 24 at 1pm (CT), with an episode titled, "Continuous Diary Market Measurement: An Update." Nielsen's plan to implement More

Three U.S. Representatives Join Local Radio Freedom Act

U.S. Congress

Three Members of the House of Representatives have added their co-sponsorship to a resolution opposing "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local broadcast radio stations. The Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA), which signals Members of Congress's opposition to any potential More

Saga Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend of $0.30 Per Share

Saga Communications

Saga Communications has announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 per share. The dividend will be paid on October 11, 2019 to shareholders of record on September 23. The amount of the payment to be made in connection with More

Study: Smart Speakers in the Majority of U.S. Households

NuVoodoo Media Services

NuVoodoo Media Services' "Ratings Prospects Study 14" revealed the continued growth of Smart Speaker penetration in homes across the U.S. 51% of NuVoodoo's sample of over 3,000 persons 14-54 across all PPM markets report at least one Smart Speaker in their lives. More

Saga Petition Seeks to Deny Five Virginia LPFM Renewals

FCC

In a filing with the FCC, Saga Communications is alleging that five low power FMs in Charlottesville, VA, are breaking number of the Commission's rules and is asking the agency to deny their license renewals. Saga claims that four LPFMs in Charlottesville and one More

Entercom Suffers Severe Damage Across its Entire Network

After days of returned email, RADIO ONLINE has learned that the computer systems at Entercom Communications have suffered a company-wide outage. In an internal memo obtained by R|O issued on Monday, Entercom says that last weekend it "suffered severe damage" across its entire network, in all More

Salem Media Group Announces Quarterly Cash Distribution

Salem Media Group

Salem Media Group has announced that its board of directors has declared a cash distribution for the third quarter of 2019 in the amount of $0.065 per share. The cash distribution will be paid on September 30 to all Class A and Class B common stockholders of More

Report: AM/FM Radio Streaming Skews Young and Female

Westwood One

Westwood One's Insights team has studied the distinctions between the streaming audience and the over-the-air audience of AM/FM radio outlets. The company analyzed audience data from over 88,000 consumers who recently registered on the Cumulus radio station group sites that make up its station More

Podtrac Releases Top 10 Podcast Publishers for August 2019

Podtrac

Podtrac's Top 10 Podcast Publishers rankings for August, 2019 are now available. All Top 10 publishers saw increases in U.S. Unique Monthly Audience in August with biggest increases coming from iHeartRadio (26%) on the strength of new episodes of "Ron Burgundy" and other new shows and ESPN (23%) More

Katz Media Group Announces New Programmatic Sales Division

Katz Media Group

Katz Media Group has announced the addition of Audiology by Katz, a new programmatic sales division for digital audio. Under Katz Digital, its programmatic digital audio marketplace was built with the mission to help advertisers and agencies utilize the power of More

FOX News Radio Inks Partnership with Triton Digital

FOX News Radio (FNR) inks a partnership with Triton Digital. FNR VP John Sylvester says the new deal will maximize advertising opportunities surrounding the FOX News Podcast Network's lineup. The podcast network will now utilize Triton's suite of audio ad serving technology to allow insertion of More

Triton Digital, Frequency Partner for Enhanced Creative

Triton Digital

Triton Digital is partnering with Frequency, a digital audio creative management platform, to enable digital audio publishers with the tools to produce, manage and deliver ad creative. Frequency's "Creative Management Platform" (CMP) is complementary to Triton's More

FCC Proposes All Filings Should be Made Electronically

FCC

This FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that continues to builds on its modernization efforts. The Commission has made significant strides in recent years toward modernizing its legacy filing, communications, and information retention systems by More