Radio Broadcasting
The Big Get Bigger: Jacksonville's New Country 99.1 WQIK has expanded its popular morning program "The Big Show" with the immediate addition of longtime radio personality Chumley, who joins hosts John, Megan, and Froggy weekdays.
Robust Earnings: Montreal-based Stingray, a streaming music, radio, and media company, posted robust fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 financial results, driven primarily by its acquisition and successful integration of the internet radio platform TuneIn.
iHM Building For Sale: iHeartmedia’s corporate headquarters in San Antonio has been put up for sale by the real estate investment trust that owns the property.
Media Industry
Fans Gouged: A House Judiciary subcommittee convened a high-profile hearing Wednesday focused on the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act and its application to the NFL's evolving media deals, scrutinizing whether the law's antitrust exemption still serves consumers in the streaming era.
FNC Primetime Showing: FOX News Channel (FNC) ended the week of June 1st with 2.7 million weekday primetime viewers and 245,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo, surpassing NBC (2.6 million viewers) and CBS (2.1 million viewers), according to Nielsen Media Research Big Data + Panel.
Summer Viewing Wanes: For the week of June 1-7, 2026, broadcast primetime viewership remained modest overall, consistent with early summer patterns featuring reruns, sports, reality, and awards programming. Nielsen data (via Hollywood Reporter and other sources) highlights top individual shows with solid but not massive audiences.
U-S News
Airstrikes Rattle Iran: The United States launched a new wave of airstrikes on Iran early Thursday morning local time, and Iran claimed to have responded with two waves of attacks, bringing the two sides closer to a return to all-out war. Hours earlier, President Trump vowed to keep up military pressure on Tehran because Iranian leaders were taking “too long to negotiate.”
Inflation Sting: Surging gasoline prices have erased more than a year of Americans’ wage gains. The hole got deeper in May, when consumer prices rose 4.2% from a year ago, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. That was significantly higher than the 3.4% gain in average hourly earnings registered in the May jobs report. That inflation-adjusted gap—average-hourly earnings falling 0.7% below their year-earlier level—is the biggest since February 2023.
Gates Compromised: Bill Gates told Congress that Jeffrey Epstein discovered that he had had affairs during his marriage and tried to leverage that information against the billionaire philanthropist, revealing how the sex offender sought to blackmail some of the powerful people in his orbit. “These affairs had nothing to do with my interactions with Epstein, but they were painful for my family,” the Microsoft co-founder said in prepared remarks before a House committee investigating the Epstein case.