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Coming this summer to TelevisaUnivision: La Radio del Mundial, as the Spanish-language radio operator partners with Fútbol de Primera to carry live, play-by-play FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage across nine of its flagship AM/FM stations in New York, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago, running June 11 through July 19.

A professional tackle football circuit played on sand, founded by former NFL linebacker and two-time Super Bowl champion Tully Banta-Cain, has signed iHeartRadio as its Official Audio and Radio Partner, with events already underway in California and destination stops planned across the country through 2027.

The FCC's May Open Meeting produced a unanimous vote on four items, including streamlining the DIRS, but after the meeting adjourned, Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Anna Gomez were far from one accord.  Separate press conferences offered starkly different accounts of where the commission is headed.

SiriusXM entered 2026 with record-low subscriber churn, three consecutive quarters of ARPU growth, and a YouTube deal that its CFO says will be material enough to reshape total company revenue. The strategy behind those results is more layered than its headline metrics suggest.

Paramount Skydance Corp. is headed for a one-notch credit downgrade at the close of its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, and S&P Global Ratings says the combined company has a long road back thanks to an enormous debt load.

Programmatic audio targeting just got more precise, as Triton Digital has expanded availability of contextual targeting and brand suitability capabilities from its Sounder.AI platform within The Trade Desk—enabling advertisers to move beyond show- or genre-level targeting and discover podcast inventory with greater precision and scale.

Blocking AI crawlers from scraping a station's website may seem like an obvious defensive move, but the National Association of Broadcasters is urging members to think carefully before acting. New guidance from the organization lays out four technical approaches to managing automated crawler access alongside business and editorial considerations.

Three years after Walter Ulloa's estate negotiated a board seat at Entravision, the agreement that secured it has been terminated. The company and Alexandra Seros, Ulloa's widow, mutually agreed to end the cooperation agreement on May 18. However, one element of the arrangement will survive.

Amid a widespread national slowdown in population growth, midsized cities remained close to the previous year’s patterns between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. Drop-offs in average growth were steeper among the largest cities, according to U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates.

CBS Radio's number one fan professes his personal loss as news network goes silent

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