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Audacy says its all-news outlets in New York and San Francisco have year-over-year listener gains.
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October 29, 2025
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Audacy Says All-News Radio Is on the Rise
Citing Nielsen PPM data, the media company said that WINS(FM/AM)'s audience in New York City has jumped 22% from last year at this time, while KCBS(FM/AM) in San Francisco's audience has climbed 17%. As the New York City mayoral race heats up, WINS had its largest September audience since pre-COVID.
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Quu Promotes Joe Marshall to VP of Technical Success
 
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In this expanded role, Marshall will head Quu’s technical support services, helping stations integrate the company’s Visual Radio technology. Marshall led the development of the company's "In-Vehicle Visuals Report."
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Who has been called "the father of television" for developing the first working fully-electronic TV system?
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Philo T. Farnsworth. I took the above photo on Mermaid Lane in Philadelphia, not far from the house where Farnsworth conducted his lab experiments, and directly adjacent to the one-time W3XPF tower, the site where WUMR(FM) and WPEN(FM) transmit today. Read an article about the people who contributed to the early days of TV.
 
 
 
 
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As an update to Radio World's previous coverage of this story, Philadelphia's public media outlet WHYY(FM/TV) agreed to raise funds to cover operating costs rather than requiring Penn State University's WPSU(FM/TV) to pay a $17.6 million stipend. As a result, Emily Reddy, WPSU's news director, said her team was “happy that it looks like public media is going to exist in central Pennsylvania.”
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