Good Morning: The Pulse Has Your Briefing for Wed. Oct 7

Radio Broadcasting

Radio Moves The Needle: Buffalo ranks as the U.S. market with the most avid NFL fans, leading Audacy Insight’s new NFL Attention Index with a score of 135, ahead of New Orleans at 120 and Cincinnati at 119. MORE

GM Named for WPSU: WHYY has named Fred Vigeant general manager of news/talk WPSU (91.5) and PBS affiliate WPSU-TV in State College, Pa., after acquiring the Penn State-owned public media operation. MORE

Board Appointments Made: The NAB has named Erik Hellum first vice chair of the Radio Board executive committee and appointed Dave Santrella to the Radio Board of Directors. MORE

Media Industry

Disney Wants FCC Blocked: Disney asked a federal judge on Tuesday to block the FCC from reviewing the broadcast licenses of the eight local television stations it owns and operates, calling the early review and possible revocation an existential threat and an unlawful violation of its First Amendment rights. MORE

Skydance Town Hall: co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz told employees Tuesday that the newly merged company will make “difficult decisions,” invest aggressively in storytelling and use technology to compete with the world’s largest tech firms, in the first town hall since the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal closed. MORE

TV Emmys to Stream: Amazon’s Prime Video will become the new home of the Emmy Awards beginning in 2027 under a six-year deal with the Television Academy. MORE

U-S News

Second Attempt? Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived a botched lethal injection on Sept. 30, 2026, and is now conscious and receiving medical care, prompting calls for her sentence to be commuted. MORE

Child-Abuse Charges: A California couple who ran a surrogacy business was arrested and charged with multiple child‑abuse offenses after investigators uncovered alleged systemic abuse of dozens of children. Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, were arrested Tuesday following a search warrant at their home in Arcadia. MORE

Bad Weather Rising: Forecasters say a disturbance in the Gulf has become Tropical Depression Isaias and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by October 8, with a likely landfall along the central Gulf Coast on October 9, prompting residents to monitor the storm closely. MORE