Radio Broadcasting
What Is AM Radio? Only 10% of U.S. adults ages 18–24 watched local TV news in the past week, compared with 64% of adults 65 and older — a 54-point generational gap, according to a survey released Thursday. The findings echoes a long-running claim in radio: that Generation Z and Generation Alpha rarely use FM and may barely know AM exists. That radio argument remains debated. MORE
Ca-Ching, Political Dollars: Radio political advertising is already running far ahead of recent election cycles as midterm buying accelerates, with Kinetiq Political Insights reporting $73.5 million booked from January 1 through September 11. MORE
Tigers Extend Broadcasters: The Detroit Tigers have signed multiyear contract extensions with television play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti and radio play-by-play announcer Dan Dickerson, keeping both as the primary voices of Tigers baseball on Detroit SportsNet and the Tigers Radio Network. MORE
Media Industry
Judge Hits Pause: A federal judge on Thursday declined to immediately approve the proposed antitrust settlement that would clear Paramount Skydance’s roughly $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, instead directing the parties to answer concerns raised by Sen. Cory Booker. MORE
NFL Rating Pick-Up: NFL Week 2 games averaged 20.4 million viewers, the most-watched second week on record dating to 1998 and a sharp rebound from a soft opening weekend. The figure is up 6% from last year’s Week 2 and lifted the league after Week 1 averaged 19.5 million, a 13% year-over-year drop. MORE
Revenge Book: Former Disney CEO book, Behind the Castle Walls, that blames predecessor and successor Bob Iger for much of what went wrong during Chapek’s tenure and takes little apparent responsibility for his own record. MORE
U-S News
CEOs Attend State Dinner: President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan at a White House state dinner on Sept. 24, 2026, featuring a menu that blended American and Chinese flavors and attended by tech CEOs, cabinet members and Supreme Court justices.
Trump Shooting Victim Dies: James Copenhaver, one of three people shot at Donald Trump's July 13, 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, died at age 76 on September 24, 2026 after living with severe, permanent injuries and a pending lawsuit against the U.S. government.
Spot Gets Scrutiny: A 30-second TV Commercial featuring clips of President Donald Trump, anti-communist rhetoric, and boasts about tax cuts and law-and-order policies with the on-screen disclosure “Paid for by the U.S. Government,” prompting Democrats to accuse the Trump administration of illegally using taxpayer money for partisan midterm messaging. MORE