Cameron Coats

Markets don’t take weekends off, and now neither does Red Apple Media’s Worldwide News Network’s business coverage.

Whether the book is a winner or a loser, whether budgets are made or missed, the buck ultimately stops at one desk: the General Manager. It’s also the seat with the most at stake in keeping a team together and giving each department the best chance to succeed.

Two years ago, Townsquare Media’s Media Partnerships division did not exist. Now it is one of the company’s fastest-growing sectors, creating revenue even as an FCC license impairment charge pushed the broader business into a reported net loss for Q2 2026.

Cumulus Media is working through a fresh round of layoffs across both sales and programming as the company awaits its formal exit from bankruptcy. The cuts are touching stations in multiple markets, as the company’s restructuring effort continues to unfold.

Townsquare Media’s second-quarter earnings call produced more than the usual round of revenue numbers. CEO Bill Wilson used the call to disclose that the company has signed its first technology licensing deal for the in-house CRM platform built for its own sales team.

University of Florida’s commercial radio stations are getting a new sales partner. Saga Communications will take over advertising for WRUF-AM/FM from Audacy in September, a deal that also makes Saga a partner in training the university’s journalism students.

Waiting until the final weeks to run radio ads may be costing political campaigns real influence. New research from Georgia’s 2026 gubernatorial primary ties sustained AM/FM advertising to stronger voter recall and support months before the ballots were counted.

Search traffic has been sliding for two years as AI platforms answer questions directly instead of sending users to click through. New measurement framework from the IAB gives radio groups running digital news and content a vocabulary for tracking that exposure.

Nielsen is betting on independent verification, agreeing to acquire ad-quality firm DoubleVerify in an all-cash deal that pulls the ratings firm deeper into digital advertising as part of a deal it calls an extension of changes already underway at the company.

President Donald Trump has picked Danielle Thumann Severs, a senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to fill one of two open commissioner seats.