Radio Broadcasting
It's A Big Deal: A House vote this week on the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is the radio industry’s highest-stakes policy test in years: a chance to lock AM receivers into new cars before more automakers, especially EV makers, drop them from the dashboard.
Tigger Returns: Charges against WVEE V-103 morning host Big Tigger have been dropped, and he will return to the air Monday after more than two months off.
3 Loses: RIP...MN Station Owner Steve Gretsch, a Lehigh Valley Radio Vet, Former WXRT, WGN Personality
Media Industry
The Formula Remains: “60 Minutes” returned Sunday looking a lot like itself. After months of firings, accusations of political interference, and a high-profile overhaul under CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss, the season premiere of America’s most-watched news program delivered the same mix that has kept it in the weekly Top 10 for decades.
Romo Remains On Leave: CBS Sports has placed NFL analyst Tony Romo on leave “until further notice,” the network said, after he pleaded no contest to an operating-while-intoxicated charge from a July arrest in Wisconsin.
PSKY Exit, Would Cost: PSKY Exit Would Devastate Calif Economy. A leaked Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation report warns that moving Paramount Skydance out of California would cost the state thousands of jobs and billions of dollars
U-S News
Whoever Wins AI, Wins: President Donald Trump dismissed apocalyptic warnings about artificial intelligence on Sunday, calling them “things that won’t happen” and arguing the United States must keep racing ahead because “whoever wins AI, wins.”
AI Questions: The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.
Pump Plain: Oil prices jumped and stock futures fell slightly on Sunday on concerns that energy supplies from the Persian Gulf would be further diminished by a drone attack on a critical pipeline in Saudi Arabia.