Audacy: Podcast Hosts Hold 21-Point Trust Advantage https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/AudacyInsightsXL.png Podcast hosts have a significant advantage over social media influencers when it comes to authenticity and their ability to influence consumers, according to a new Audacy Insights report. Audacy says 75% of listeners rate podcast hosts as the most authentic, compared with 54% for social media influencers, a More

AWM Names 2026 Gracies Leadership Awards Honorees https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/AWMXL.png The Alliance for Women in Media (AWM) has announced the honorees for the 2026 Gracies Leadership Awards, set for November 16 at Tribeca 360° in New York City. Zenia Mucha, Chief Brand and Communications Officer at TikTok, will receive the inaugural Gracies Vanguard Award. The More

Nielsen Takes Cumulus Ratings Fight to Supreme Court https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/NielsenXL.png The Nielsen Company has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a preliminary injunction in its antitrust dispute with Cumulus Media over the sale of national radio ratings data. Nielsen filed its petition for a writ of certiorari More

Broadcast Industry Group Sells Arkansas Trio for $2M https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/BlacksunXL.png Broadcast Industry Group LLC has agreed to sell three Arkansas AM stations and their associated FM translators to Blacksun Private Equity Inc. for $2 million, according to an assignment application filed with the FCC. The deal includes KLRG-AM/Sheridan, KASZ-AM (formerly KJJI)/White Hall and KCAT-AM/Pine More

Family Life Closes on Acquisition of WOGI-FM for $1M https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/WOGI-FMXL.png Family Life has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Country WOGI-FM (104.3) in Moon Township, PA, and Pittsburgh translator W288BO (105.5) from Forever Media for $1 million. WOGI-FM operates with 13,000 watts and serves the greater Pittsburgh area. The acquisition will add the station More

Pete Mundo Expands to KFRU Columbia MO https://images.radio-online.com/images/people/PeteMundoXL.png Cumulus Media's KFRU-AM (NewsTalk 98.9 FM & 1400 AM) in Columbia, MO, is adding "Mundo in the Morning" with Pete Mundo to its morning lineup, expanding the KCMO Talk Radio program into another market. "We're excited to bring Pete Mundo to Columbia on KFRU," the station announced on social media. "Tune in More

Q102, ALT 104.5 Plan Halloween Wedding Giveaway https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/TilDeathDoUsPartXL.png iHeartMedia Philadelphia's WIOQ-FM (Q102) and WRFF-FM (ALT 104.5) are teaming up to give one couple a Halloween wedding at Pennhurst Asylum. The stations have launched "Til Death Do Us Part," a promotion offering the winning couple a wedding ceremony and reception at the reportedly haunted attraction on More

Caloroga Media Launches AI Production Platform Linnet https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/CalorogaMediaXL.png Caloroga Media has launched Linnet, a browser-based AI production platform designed to combine scripting, audio and video production and publishing in a single system. The company says Linnet was developed from its own production workflow to replace the collection of separate More

Noiser Debuts 'A Study in Scarlet' with Hugh Bonneville https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/AStudyinScarletXL.png Podcast producer Noiser is expanding its "Sherlock Holmes Short Stories" series with "A Study in Scarlet," narrated by actor Hugh Bonneville and released as a seven-episode podcast series. The production follows the success of "Sherlock Holmes Short Stories," which Noiser says was the second biggest More

Holiday Music Connects Radio With Consumers https://images.radio-online.com/images/logos/KatzRadioGroupXL.png Holiday music remains an important part of the season for consumers, with 69% listening to seasonal music on AM/FM radio, according to new research from Katz Radio Group. The findings, featured in Katz's latest "Sound Answers," are based on a custom survey conducted in December More