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How can Americans keep fully informed when it comes to the news, ensuring what they receive is accurate, free of bias and untainted by Artificial Intelligence? It's getting harder, Pew Research Center says. That's why it invited respondents to participate in a new story that asked in their own words what they think it means to be "a good news consumer."

As of today, the fast-growing radio station ownership group led by founder Jeff Warshaw has entered the San Francisco-Oakland radio market, adding to assets in San Jose obtained in its debt assumption-driven merger with Alpha Media. Serving as the seller's broker of record is Kalil & Co.

On April 29, FCC Media Bureau Video Division Chief David J. Brown gave the green light to an exchange of broadcast television stations between Scripps and Gray, dismissing objections from cable TV industry advocacy groups over the deal. That transaction has now closed.

With the May 7 release of its first quarter earnings results, Gray Media indicated that it is seeing some "softness" in core advertising in Q2. Now, one prominent Wall Street financial analyst has responded by slicing his 1-year target price for "GTN."

As 2026 began, word surfaced that the station, WGR, would no longer serve as the team's radio flagship. As Audacy planned for the future minus the Buffalo Bills, a new audio broadcast home was sought. Now, a deal is in place. 

It's a unit of a publicly traded diversified holding company known as Innovate Inc., and with Thursday's release of that entity's first quarter earnings came an up-close look at the financial health of low-power TV-focused licensee HC2 Broadcasting. Just how is HC2, a "Spectrum" segment, performing for Innovate's investors?

TNDV and sister company Live Media, both divisions of Live Media Group, once again played a central role in delivering live broadcast coverage surrounding NCAA Final Four weekend, supporting both large-scale concert productions and live game-related programming across multiple platforms.

It had been the home of “The Fanatic,” offering a Sports Talk format under owner CRC Broadcasting. Today, the facility is silent and now en route to a new owner: Ken Brentlinger. It's a deal that involves the seller's bankruptcy, and a buyer whose LPFM Broadcasting acquired a trio of Arizona FM translators in 2019.

What does radio need to do right now to best position itself for 2030? The closing session at the Hispanic Radio Conference isn’t framing that as a hypothetical. The urgency is real, and the answers will require innovation and collaboration in equal measure.