Inside Radio

Rick Hirschmann, Brand Manager and midday host at Midwest Communications classic hits “93.3 The Drive” WPBG Peoria, IL, is exiting the station to relocate to Greenville, SC. He has been in the market for four decades.

Joe Cashion, the radio voice of Coastal Carolina University football, is stepping down. Cashion joined the broadcast team during the Chanticleers’ inaugural season in 2003. He started as a sideline reporter before rising to play-by-play announcer in 2014.

Now that he no longer has a radio outlet, Rudy Giuliani has beefed up his social media presence. The former New York City Mayor and lawyer/advisor to former President Donald Trump is live-streaming a show on X.

Audacy debuts a new album release initiative called “On The Record” with Billie Eilish’s third release, “Hit Me Hard And Soft,” the focus of the debut campaign.

… The documentary film created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Cumulus Media ’s “News Talk 580/105.9” KMJ Fresno has been nominated for a regional Emmy Award

With AI already infiltrating the music industry, highlighted by the release of a new song from Randy Travis using AI technology, Sony is warning hundreds of companies not to use artists signed to their labels in AI applications without permission.

Some NPR employees are reportedly feeling angst about a new group of six senior editors — called the “Backstop” — who will be charged with reviewing all of the public broadcaster’s journalism prior to release.

Three Townsquare Media stations in upstate New York that the company took off the air in January of this year have a new owner.

With one-third of 2024 in the books, the 10th-ranked format among persons 6+ — and 14th for 18-34s, 18-49s and 25-54s — continues to show solid share growth year-over-year, with monthly trending steady as they go.

The increase in the number of people listening to podcasts is well-documented, and Edison Research says two-thirds of Americans aged 12 and older have listened to a podcast with a third weekly listeners. But in newly released data, the scale of that new media habit is illuminated in the amount of time people are spending listening to on-demand audio. In the past decade, Edison says the average time spent listening to podcasts has more than quadrupled.