Radio Broadcasting
Beasley Needs Cash: Beasley Media Group is selling its longtime Top 40 station in Charlotte and Alternative FM in Las Vegas to the noncommercial Educational Media Foundation, operator of the K-LOVE and Air1 Christian Contemporary Music networks, as the company navigates ongoing financial pressures by monetizing select assets.
Tulsa Flips: Two Tulsa radio stations will swap FM frequencies later this month to improve signal coverage across the market.
10 Years For Dave: Cumulus Media’s California Country station 100.7 KHAY-FM in Oxnard/Ventura, CA, will celebrate popular morning radio personality Dave Daniels’ 10 years on-air as Host of “Morning Wake Up Call With Dave Daniels”
Media Industry
Caps? Ask Congreess: Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who helped craft the 39% national TV station ownership cap in 2004, says FCC Chairman Brendan Carr should seek new legislation from Congress if he wants to change or eliminate the limit.
Cap Vote Thursday: The FCC, under Chairman Brendan Carr, is scheduled to vote Thursday, on repealing the longstanding 39% national television audience-reach ownership cap. It would replace the bright-line limit with case-by-case public-interest reviews (considering factors like localism, viewpoint diversity, and competition).
Can't Do, Teach: Former “60 Minutes” correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi have been named Journalists in Residence at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism for the 2026–27 academic year.
U-S News
Conflicting Signals: The U-S and Iran differ over the status of talks to end their five-month-old war boosted uncertainty on Tuesday, with the latest attack on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz highlighting risks to global energy flows. Trump said the talks were under way on Monday, warning of a "last chance" for Tehran to sign a good deal, but Iran denied that negotiations were being held or planned.
Pump Pain Too Much: President Trump has accused Mobil and Chevron of making "too much money" off higher fuel prices and said the oil giants should "give some of that back to the public," a notable break from his usual alliance with the industry. "I don't like it," Trump told reporters on Monday, three days after the companies reported blowout second-quarter earnings as the ongoing war in Iran keeps oil prices high. “Chevron, too much money. ExxonMobil, too much. Too much money.”
Pirro Chokes: President Trump met with Jeanine Pirro at the White House on Monday, hours after saying that she had “choked” when she concluded that the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was not the work of vandals, as the president has claimed.