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Just shy of the century mark since its first broadcast, CBS News Radio signs off for the final time tonight, closing a service that defined the sound of American broadcast journalism, trained generations of news talent, and reached and informed tens of millions of listeners every week.

Spotify's expansion of its AI-driven Prompted Playlist feature to include podcasts alongside music is the latest exhibit in Connoisseur Media CEO Jeff Warshaw's push to convince the FCC that digital audio platforms now compete directly with broadcast radio and that local ownership rules should be scrapped entirely as a result.

Congress first took up the question of AI-generated voice and likeness protection in 2023. In the years since, the technology moved far faster than the legislation. Now, the NO FAKES Act is getting a new shot at protecting creatives from unauthorized AI-generated replicas of their voice and likeness.

The biggest names in Hispanic radio will be under one roof in Phoenix next week, and here's the cold, hard truth. Deals get done here. Hires get made here. Lessons get learned directly from the people at the top. If your competitor is at Hispanic Radio Conference 2026 and you're not, you'll feel it, one way or another.

A market-oriented think tank in Portland, Ore., is urging the FCC to treat broadcast ownership rules, retransmission consent, content regulation, and sports distribution policy as a single interlocking problem, cautioning that fixing any one without the others risks making the broader regulatory picture worse.

Most marketers already know brand-building works. The harder question, and the one a new report from WARC and four research partners sets out to answer, is why so few of them are actually doing it. The culprit, according to a survey of more than 200 senior marketers, is eight blockers spanning cultural, procedural, and structural misalignments.

Cox Media Group is facing a nearly $1 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over an AI-powered "Active Listening" advertising service that the agency says falsely claimed to harvest conversations from smart devices to serve targeted ads to consumers.

A prominent conservative media figure and political commentator with close ties to the Trump orbit is on the hook for $41,000 after an FCC investigation found one of his broadcast television stations serving the Susquehanna Valley filed or missed dozens of required public file documents over its license term.

Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club—one of more than 15 iHeartMedia shows brought to Netflix under the pair's exclusive video podcast partnership announced last December—is headed to the platform live, daily, and starting June 1, marking the first live weekday programming offering in the streaming giant's history.

An entertainment attorney with deep Academy roots, a dealmaker behind some of the streaming era's most consequential content transactions, and the chief executive overseeing one of the largest independent production footprints in the Western Hemisphere are bolstering the board of the Television Academy's philanthropic arm.