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RADIO RATINGS FOR SUBSCRIBING STATIONS MOBILE | TOLEDO | WICHITA Nielsen ratings coming Friday at 5PM(ET): Chattanooga, Huntsville and Jackson, MS.

What It Means for Traditional Radio (Word count: 350 words…1.5 minutes) In the age of streaming, music has become timeless. Platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube have cracked open the vault, making nearly every song ever recorded available with a swipe. What’s emerged is a remarkable trend: younger generations are not just listening to today’s hits—they’re actively rediscovering songs from decades past. Catalog music—defined as songs older than 18 […]

Is Radio’s Commercial Overload Driving Away Listeners and Undermining Advertisers? Radio, once the soundtrack of daily life, now faces a critical inflection point. While it still reaches a vast audience weekly, the listener experience is increasingly being compromised by the sheer volume of advertising. As a media consumption expert with a background in psychology, I’ve seen how cognitive overload and negative emotional associations can diminish media effectiveness—and radio is exhibiting […]

While television may no longer dominate media consumption the way it once did, new data shows that Americans are still engaging with their TVs — just in different ways. According to Edison Research’s Share of Ear study for Q2 2025, Americans age 13 and older now spend 6% of their daily audio listening time through internet-connected television devices. Though this share remains far below that of mobile devices and traditional […]

iHeartPodcasts and Thoroughbred Studios have premiered a new scripted audio drama, BUZZ, a limited series that tells the dramatic, behind-the-scenes story of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. The series stars acclaimed actor John Lithgow as the narrator and the voice of the older Aldrin, and Geoffrey Arend as the younger Apollo-era Aldrin. The first four episodes are available now on the iHeartRadio app and other podcast platforms, with new episodes […]

RADIO RATINGS FOR SUBSCRIBING STATIONS COLUMBIA, SC | LITTLE ROCK Ratings coming Thursday at 5PM(ET): Mobile, Toledo and Wichita.

This is a mission all of Urban radio can get involved in. At Black Voters Matter, our social media isn’t just content. It’s community, culture, and a call to action. What sets us apart is how we center real people and real power in everything we share. Whether it’s stories of Black communities fighting environmental racism, reminders to check your voter status, or honoring civil rights legacies through today’s movements, […]

Well known and out spoken, Stacey Yvonne Abrams is a Georgia politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. Stacy is making the rounds and has thoughts on the current situation in American. She speaks the truth here – take a listen.

Mahogany Columbus is a bi-monthly magazine published (6) six times a year by Mahogany Media Group LLC. The magazine is an Urban Lifestyle Magazine targeting the growing population of Central Ohio’s People of Color (POC) African Americans, Latinos and new African  immigrants. Note: Each month we have multiple individuals featured on our front covers of the same issue. In 2023, we had (17) different front covers on (6) issues!  The […]