Radio Broadcasting
9 Station Cluster: Zimmer Communications and Mid-West Family will merge their Springfield radio operations pending FCC approval.
Audio Reaches Voters Best: As another U.S. election year arrives in 2026, Share of Ear® once again identifies the audio platforms most effective at reaching targeted voting-age audiences. With ad-supported audio connecting to 81% of the voting-age public every day, this medium is far too powerful to ignore. Share of Ear reveals exactly how audio can be leveraged more strategically to engage the hearts, minds, and ears of voters.
SiriusXM Launches Sports Pass: SiriusXM has announced SiriusXM Sports Pass, a new subscription plan built for sports fans whose season never ends. SiriusXM Sports Pass will keep fans connected to the teams, hometown voices and sports conversations they love by bringing together SiriusXM's unmatched sports audio lineup into one low-priced subscription. Listeners will get every live game and event SiriusXM carries, along with local sports talk, exclusive sports channels, national sports voices, expert analysis and podcasts.
Media Industry
FNC Wins Monthly: FOX News Channel (FNC) continued to exert its dominance in all of television for the month of July with 2.6 million weekday primetime viewers leading NBC (2.5 million viewers), ABC (2.3 million viewers) and CBS (1.9 million viewers).
FNC Wins Weekly: FOX News Channel (FNC) ended the week of July 20th with 2.7 million weekday primetime viewers and 243,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo, leading all of television, outranking NBC (2.6 million viewers), ABC (2.4 million viewers) and CBS (1.6 million viewers)
ABC WNT Entrenched: For the 15th consecutive week, “World News Tonight with David Muir” stood as the No. 1 program in Total Viewers (8.143 million) on all of broadcast and cable (excluding sports) during the week of July 20, 2026, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
U-S News
U-S Retaliates: American forces carried out strikes against Iran on Wednesday night, in what the U.S. military called a “powerful response” to Iran’s missile attacks on U.S. forces in Jordan. The strikes came hours after President Trump vowed to retaliate for the surprise ballistic missile strike, dashing hopes for an imminent diplomatic breakthrough. Though the assault was larger in scope than previous U.S. attacks, it didn’t amount to a return to major combat operations, according to a U.S. official.
Doctor No: Dr. Anthony Fauci Wednesday repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times during a contentious Committee hearing on COVID-19 origins and pandemic response, prompting extensive live and post-hearing coverage across cable and broadcast networks that highlighted the partisan clash with Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
GOP Stalls: Republicans on Wednesday night postponed a critical vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general after two key G.O.P. senators threatened to derail it over a deal he cut to settle President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.