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Audacy has announced a partnership with Melani Sanders, founder of the viral “We Do Not Care Club” movement, to launch a new podcast exploring midlife, menopause, health, relationships and personal reinvention. “The We Do Not Care Club Podcast with Melani Sanders” will debut October 21, with Audacy handling advertising sales and distribution and Sanders producing

November 3rd is fast approaching, and campaigns, creators, and companies are very focused on how to reach potential voting blocks. Share of Ear® from Edison Research at SSRS has made it easier than ever to not only understand how people within each political party engage with audio daily but also to make comparisons across groups.

New research from Audacy, conducted with YouGov and MRI-Simmons, highlights the role of AM/FM radio in reaching commuting voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The findings suggest radio can help political advertisers expand their reach beyond traditional television and digital campaigns while connecting with voters concerned about the economy and cost of living. According

Thanks to Marsha Washington George of the Natioinal Black Radio Hall of Fame, she let us know that Hattie “Chatty Hatty” Leeper, the pioneering Charlotte, North Carolina radio announcer, died at the age of 98. Pictured below: Hattie Chatty with Marsha Washington George when she was Inducted in St. Louis in 2022 Her family announced

Cumulus Media has promoted Kathy “KB” Brown to Vice President of Urban Formats, expanding her responsibilities to include programming oversight for the company’s 40 Urban-formatted radio stations nationwide. The promotion is effective immediately. In her new role, Brown will serve as a senior programming leader, overseeing Cumulus Media’s Urban Mainstream, Urban AC, Classic Hip Hop

Reach Media and Radio One have launched “The Garden of Love,” a new nighttime radio program hosted by Grammy Award-winning R&B artist Raheem DeVaughn. The show debuted Monday, October 12, and airs Sunday through Thursday from 7pm to midnight on WMMJ-FM (Majic 102.3) in Washington, DC. The program combines soulful slow jams and romantic R&B

102.9 KBLX in San Francisco has named Bay Area radio personality Mia Amor as its new weekday afternoon host, effective Monday, October 19. Amor will be heard weekdays from 2-7pm. A San Jose native raised in the Bay Area, Amor returns to the San Francisco airwaves with an established connection to local listeners. She previously

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) is a non-partisan, national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving equal opportunity in the tech, media, and telecom (TMT) industries, and closing the digital divide on behalf of its members and constituents, including owners of radio and television broadcast stations, programmers, prospective station owners, and others involved

As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms how people work, learn, earn, build businesses and create wealth, the DFREE® Movement is bringing communities together to ensure everyone has an opportunity to participate in—and benefit from—the emerging economy. The DFREE® Global Foundation announced that FinFe$T 2026 will take place Nov. 13–14 at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.