Good Morning! Here's The Pulse For Thursday, Aug 6

Radio Broadcasting

More Layoffs: Cumulus Media has laid off air talent, programmers and management across multiple markets as part of its ongoing financial restructuring.  The company has not disclosed the total number of employees affected, but confirmed departures span stations in California, Michigan, Arkansas, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Illinois and New York, with additional exits expected in the coming days.

Papa Out: Cumulus Media's KNBR has laid off longtime Bay Area sportscaster Greg Papa, 63, and his midday co-host Greg Silver. The pair will be replaced on the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. show by John Lund.

Media Life: A recent survey underscores the growing dominance of media in daily life, revealing that consumers devote nearly 11 hours each day to it—more time than they typically spend sleeping or working. The study also highlights how varied and fragmented these habits have become.

Media Industry

FOX Leads Primtime: FOX News Channel (FNC) wrapped up the week of July 27th with 2.7 million weekday primetime viewers, dominating all of television, surpassing NBC (2.6 million viewers), ABC (2.3 million viewers) and CBS (2.2 million viewers)

WNT Leads: “World News Tonight with David Muir” again leads as the No. 1 program in Total Viewers (8.168 million) on all of broadcast and cable (excluding sports) during the week of July 27, 2026,

Broad Growth: News Corp reported an 11% rise in fiscal fourth-quarter revenue to $2.34 billion, beating analyst expectations, while net income from continuing operations more than doubled to $230 million. 

U-S News

Dems Dilemma: The narrow victory by Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday is both a landmark win for the party’s insurgent left wing and a sign that the battle with centrists over the party’s course is far from settled.

Biz Rebuffed: New York City’s business elites are getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.  The mayor this week fired dozens of corporate leaders from the advisory board of a multimillion-dollar philanthropic fund called the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City. 

Airlines Resists ICE: Airlines are pushing back against federal authorities intensifying immigration enforcement at U.S. airports. In one case on July 25, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer tried to board a Southwest Airlines flight in Dallas to make an arrest, only to be rebuffed by the airline.