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- Noncom FM Station Totals Continue to Boom
Credit: Getty Images/dubassy The number of noncommercial FM stations in the United States continues to break records. In the latest totals from the Federal Communications Commission, there are 4,806 noncom FMs as of June 30. That is 177 more than a year ago and up by a whopping 622 stations from four years ago. The FCC conducted an application window for new noncom FM stations in late 2021. The ongoing decline in AM station totals has continued. The report came out even as broadcasters met this week on Capitol Hill to lobby Congress to mandate AM’s inclusion in new vehicles. At mid-year there were 4,300 AM stations, down by 60 from this time last year and down by 198 stations from four years ago. The AM category peaked in the early 1990s at around 5,000 licenses, according to FCC data. Also continuing a more recent decline is the number of commercial FMs. There were 6,560 at mid-year, down by 42 from last year and by 129 over four years. The category of FM translators and boosters meanwhile stands at 8,846; that’s down just a bit from last year, but the category will get a boost soon after the FCC opens its first-ever window for noncom FM translators later this year. And there are now 2,013 low-power FMs, up slightly from a year ago. LPFM should continue to grow after a window for applications in 2023. Interested in this topic? Don’t miss the cool long-term trend graphics we reported in this earlier story. The post Noncom FM Station Totals Continue to Boom appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.16 mins ago 
In a boost for AI voicing services, and a blow to human audiobook narrators, we learn that consumers of audiobook fiction rate AI-generated multi-cast narration higher than human narration. The survey was conducted by Edison Research, commissioned by Spoken, an… Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.33 mins ago- ‘Really, Really Big News!’ Trump Previews His Thursday Rigged Election Annou...
President Donald Trump previewed his planned address to the nation, promising the Thursday night speech would be “really big news.” Speaking from the Oval Office with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi beside him, a reporter asked about a report the speech would concerned “election machines and election integrity.” Trump appeared to confirm the topic: It will concern that subject and a couple of other things. I’d rather save it, but it’s really big news. It’s really, really big news. Our country has to shape up. But that’s what we’re going to be talking about Thursday, it doesn’t get bigger. Without a free and fair elections you don’t have a country. We’ll be discussing other things to, but it’s going to be a very big announcement. The statement came days after Trump announced the speech, and MS NOW reported the subject would concern new information about the president’s much-repeated assertion the 2020 elections were “rigged.” The Washington Reporter claimed Trump’s speech would include the claim that Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff (D) and Raphael Warnock’s (D) razor-thin election victories were “illegitimate,” prompting both elected officials to respond. Both Ossoff and Warnock won in contests that went to run-offs, and their elections helped Democrats take control of the Senate. Ossoff slammed the idea that Trump would attack him. “Donald Trump’s spiral continues. The failed president, pocketing billions as he drives up prices, is afraid to lose the midterms,” Ossoff wrote. “So he will reheat debunked election conspiracy theories and tell bizarre new lies to deny his 2020 defeat and attack voting rights. This is a disaster for Trump puppet Mike Collins,” he added, speaking of his Republican challenger. “Already mired in scandal, Mike will now have to double down on conspiracy theories toxic in the General Election,” Ossoff continued. “From the start, Trump’s obsession with Georgia elections revealed his fury that Black voters were instrumental to his defeat. I’m asking concerned citizens nationwide to join me and support our voter protection efforts in Georgia.” Warnock also spoke out. “Donald Trump is at war with our democracy and Georgia is ground zero,” he wrote on X. “But this is John Lewis’ Georgia. We are not intimidated. We are not moved. Mr. President, instead of attacking our democracy, why don’t you do something about the high cost of gas, housing, and health care? Warnock added: “Donald Trump is trying to cast doubt on… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - US Soccer Star Folarin Balogun Admits Controversy Over Trump’s Involvement at ...U.S. men’s soccer star Folarin Balogun admitted President Donald Trump’s role in getting his red card suspended made things “difficult” for the team. Balogun was given a red card in the U.S.’s round of 32 match against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the World Cup. The red card triggered an automatic one-match suspension, meaning Balogun — the team’s top player — would miss the round of 16 match against Belgium. Amid the wave of outrage over the red card, Trump reached out to FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask for a review of the play. Upon review, FIFA decided to suspend the red card and allow Balogun to play. The U.S. went on to lose in humiliating fashion. Speaking about the situation on CBS Mornings, Balogun said he was happy to be able to rejoin the team. He knew, however, that it would come with a great deal of controversy. He added: My initial reaction was, you know, I was happy to be back in the team. But when I kind of started to reflect, I knew it was gonna cause a lot of controversy, and I could almost see within my teammates a bit of nerves because it’s something that’s so unique. But the closer we got to the game, I tried to just focus as best as I could, but it was difficult, you know? A lot of outside noise, and that’s hard to avoid. Watch above via CBSThe post US Soccer Star Folarin Balogun Admits Controversy Over Trump’s Involvement at World Cup Made Things ‘Difficult’ for Team first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Mike Johnson Tells Reporters ‘I Don’t Know Anything’ About Latest ICE Shoo...
Screenshot House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters he couldn’t answer questions about the fatal shooting in Maine involving ICE because he worked “22 hours” and had yet to be briefed on the incident. The motorist was killed Monday in a car, just south of Portland. The death marks the second time in a week Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were blamed for a fatal shooting. ICE agents claimed the Maine victim, who has been identified as a Colombian native, had emerged from an address they had been surveilling and tried to flee, prompting an officer who was “fearing for public safety” to open fire. The agents were reportedly not wearing body cams, prompting a reporter to ask Johnson during a briefing Tuesday about the issue. Q: The ICE agents who killed a person in Maine yesterday were reportedly not using body cameras. That’s despite DHS officials coming to Congress and repeatedly saying they want to expand body cam usage. Does there need to be accountability? MIKE JOHNSON: Uh, I don’t know… pic.twitter.com/pGL2340Sru — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2026 “I don’t know anything about this event, OK? I was a little busy yesterday. So I’m going to reserve judgment. I know there was a tragic shooting and I’m not going to comment on it because I don’t know,” he said. “You guys can mock me for not knowing that. I worked about 22 hours in the last few days and I did not get the briefing on that. I will this morning,” he added. The fatal shooting in Maine is also second time ICE has claimed, without providing evidence, that a victim was using their vehicle as a weapon. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed July 7 while driving a van in Houston after agents tried to pull him over. The agents were apparently targeting someone else when Salgado Araujo was shot. Johnson made his comments just days after the shocking death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly late Saturday after what preliminary reports said was an aortic dissection.The post Mike Johnson Tells Reporters ‘I Don’t Know Anything’ About Latest ICE Shooting: ‘You Guys Can Mock Me’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Finally Pays E. Jean Carroll $5.6 Million After Exhausting His Appeals
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Photo President Donald Trump has finally paid E. Jean Carroll the $5.6 million judgment he owes her for one of the two lawsuits she filed against him, after exhausting his appeals. The cases arose from Carroll’s allegations in a 2019 article that Trump had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump vociferously denied the accusations and launched a series of attacks on Carroll, all leading to her suing him for defamation and a separate civil claim for the alleged rape. The ex-president’s deposition included several shocking moments, including one where Trump — who had been adamant that Carroll was “not my type” — mistook a photo of her for his second wife, Marla Maples. In May 2023, a New York jury found Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, and awarded $5 million in damages. Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan presided over both trials, ruling from the outset that the jury’s verdict finding Trump liable would be binding in the second proceeding. The only matter at issue in the second trial was the amount of damages, and Carroll’s legal team emphasized how Trump had continued to attack their client in the aftermath of that last verdict — including aggressively bashing her throughout the trial. Trump briefly took the stand in his defense, after getting his own scolding from the judge for speaking over his own attorneys and disrupting the courtroom. Judge Kaplan ended up striking most of Trump’s comments from the record because they violated his ruling to not attempt to re-litigate the previous trial’s verdict. The jury clobbered Trump in January 2024, finding him liable for defaming Carroll and awarding her $83.3 million, comprised of compensatory damages of $7.3 million for emotional harm and $11 million in “reputational repair,” plus $65 million in punitive damages. Since then, Trump has made numerous unsuccessful attempts to appeal both verdicts, going all the way to the Supreme Court, which denied his petition for a writ of certiorari in late June without issuing a written opinion. With the nation’s highest court refusing to hear his appeal, Carroll’s lawyers filed a motion to be able to disburse the funds, which Trump had deposited in an escrow account after the verdict in 2023. The initial $5 million has collected several hundred thousand dollars in interest since that time, which Kaplan ordered must be paid to Carroll… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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