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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Americans Spend 4+ Hours Daily With Audio

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Instead of zooming in to examine a deep cut of data or to look at a particular group of listeners, Edison Research is doing the opposite th...

Fox News Beats MSNBC and CNN Combined In Primetime

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During the week of December 18-24, FOX News Channel (FNC) topped CNN and MSNBC combined with weekday primetime viewers for the sixth consecu...

Philly Radio: Ashlyn Sullivan Joins Sports Radio 94 WIP

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NBC Sports Philadelphia's Ashlyn Sullivan is jumping into sports talk radio, joining SportsRadio 94 WIP as a part-time host, Philly Busi...

Urban One Reports Deep Loss

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Urban One reported third quarter net revenue declined 3% to $117.83 million as compared to $121.2 million in 2022. The delayed results refle...

Taylor Swift Ties Elvis On Billboard's 200 Album List

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Heading into the final week of 2023, Taylor Swift has tied Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most weeks spent at the top of the Bill...

Radio History: December 28

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➦In 1915 ...announcer Dick Joy was born in Putnam, Connecticut. Starting in local LA radio while a USC journalism student he became the youn...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

R.I.P.: Tom Smothers Older Half of The Smothers Brothers

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Tom and Dick Smothers Tom Smothers, the older half of the comic folk duo the Smothers Brothers, whose skits and songs on “The Smothers Broth...

R.I.P.: Tom Foty, Longtime CBS Radio Anchor Dies at 77

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Longtime CBS News Radio Washington anchor and reporter Tom Foty (right) died Tuesday at the age of 77. WTOP reports Foty was a mainstay fo...

R.I.P.: Adam Petlin, Original Fox News Hire Dies at 58

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Adam Petlin Adam Petlin, who joined Fox News weeks after its debut in 1996 and was longtime head of Chicago bureau operations, died on Dec. ...

R.I.P.: Matt Napolitano, Fox News Audio Anchor and Reporter, Dies at 33

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Matt Napolitano Matt Napolitano, an anchor and reporter for Fox News Audio, died Dec. 23 in New York City after a short illness. He was 33. ...

FCC Upholds Station Ownership Limits

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The FCC has reaffirmed and toughened its network and TV station ownership limits , saying that despite a proliferation of alternative video ...

Google’s Top Trending Searches of 2023

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This has been a turbulent year, and that’s reflected in Google’s top trending searches of 2023. The latest annual list reveals that war, sho...

NYTimes Sues Microsoft, ChatGPT Maker OpenAI

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The New York Times on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing the pa...

Holiday Retail Sales Grow 3.1%

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Shoppers opened their wallets this holiday season as they have for much of 2023, even crowding into shopping malls to scoop up last-minute h...

Media Companies Have Cut Over 20,000 Jobs This Year

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The media industry was beset with a series of layoffs impacting a number of sectors in 2023. Earlier this month, Challenger, Gray and Chris...

President Again Skips Traditional Year-End News Confab

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President Biden came into office promising to restore relations with journalists after his predecessor’s four combative years, but Mr. Biden...