Media Confidential

➦In 1882 ...the future 32nd US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born at Hyde Park NY.  Not only was he the only President elected 4 t...

Media mogul and billionaire investor Barry Diller approached Warner Bros. Discovery last year expressing interest in buying CNN, and he rema...

FOX Business Network (FBN) closed out January 2026 securing double-digit wins over CNBC in business day, market hours and total day viewers,...

Meet the Press with Kristen Welker was the #1 Sunday public affairs show for both A25-54 and A18-49 demo viewers in January according to Nie...

CBS News is offering voluntary buyouts to non-unionized staffers on its CBS Evening News program, according to multiple sources familiar wit...

FOX News Channel (FNC) finished the week of January 19 averaging 2.6 million weekday primetime viewers leading CBS’ 2.2 million viewers, ac...

📻Miami:  Santa Not Number 1 As is typical in this market, none of the major stations opted for a full Christmas format flip (the "Sant...

Popular Indianapolis conservative radio host Rob Kendall has been sidelined from his midday show on 93.1 WIBC-FM amid an ongoing contract di...

SiriusXM has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated the National Do Not Call Registry and its own i...

Comcast continued to lose broadband subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2025, shedding 181,000 domestic customers—more than the 176,000 ana...

Radio Broadcasting Major Group Restructuring and "Content-First" Strategies:  Audacy has shifted to a content-first, format-drive...

FNC Overtakes CBS with Weekday Primetime Viewers ‘Special Report’ Beats ‘CBS Evening News’ in 15 Major Markets Across the Country FOX News C...

Spotify paid out more than $11 billion in royalties to the music industry in 2025 — the largest single-year payout from any retailer in hist...

Matt Lauer in 2017 on TODAY Set Brooke Nevils, a former Today show producer, details the devastating personal toll of accusing Matt Lauer of...

➦In 1929 ...Newspaper gossip columnist Walter Winchell was  first heard on radio.  But it would be more than a year before he got his own sh...

Audacy CEO Kelli Turner has announced a major company-wide restructuring, shifting from a traditional market-by-market model to a content-fi...

🎄San Francisco:  KOIT Makes The Holiday Jump Bonneville Adult Contemporary KOIT jumped almost 3-share on the the way to #1 in Persons 6+ du...

Bari Weiss CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss addressed staff in a highly anticipated all-hands town hall on Tuesday, acknowledging a turbu...