This paper examines how changes in radio station ownership have affected music variety and station listenership. A unique panel dataset of music radio airplay shows that a common owner of stations in the same local radio market and the same broad music category increases the degree of...

Commercial radio stations and advertisers have potentially conflicting interests about when commercial breaks should be played. This paper estimates an incomplete information timing game to examine stations' equilibrium timing incentives. It shows how identification can be aided by the existence...

Commercial radio stations and advertisers have potentially conflicting interests about when commercial breaks should be played. This paper estimates an incomplete information timing game to examine stations' equilibrium timing incentives. It shows how identification can be aided by the existence...

This chapter surveys the literature on the economics of radio, focusing on the broadcast industry in the United States. The first parts of the chapter provide a history of the radio industry and its regulation, and a guide to the data available for empirical research. The next part surveys the...