Gene Converse dead at 70
Best known for his years as morning man at WXCO-AM Wausau, WI, Gene Converse has died in Lake Alfred, FL. He was 70.Converse died...
Tavis Smiley teams with Cornell West for new noncom radio show
Public Radio International will be distributing a new weekly hour-long radio program featuring veteran broadcaster Tavis Smiley with well-known Princeton professor Cornell West featuring...
Radio One/DC gets new stripes in Wegmann, Leinwand
Radio One announced that Christopher Wegmann has been named Vice President/General Manager and Alan Leinwand has been named Director of Sales for Radio One's...
24/7 Comedy Radio adds KFNY
24/7 Comedy Radio, radio’s first short-attention-span all-comedy format debuts live on Clear Channel’s KFNY 1440 in Riverside, CA 9/27. Modeled on the winning Top-40...
Analyst boosts estimates for Entercom
Gilford Securities analyst Jim Boyle raised his revenue estimates for Entercom Communications. That bullish report appeared to give a boost to a wide swath of radio stocks on Friday
Roy Ayers at the AURN studios
Renowned vibraphone player Roy Ayers recently performed at the Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, the headquarters of the news division of American Urban Radio...
Former US Radio exec calls for ban on paid political ads
Richard Greener was an equity partner in the old US Radio Group and VP/GM of WAOK Atlanta. He says that although he has nothing...
KUFO-FM Portland hunting
UPDATE: Ryan Homsley was arrested Friday and is in FBI custody.Alpha Broadcasting’s KUFO-FM Portland, OR has asked listeners to help locate the brother of...
Half-cocked Canadian contest careens out of control
At stake: $10K from CKQK-FM, known in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island as K Rock 10. It actually broadcasts on 105.5, and...
Thom Hartmann Program moves to DC
Dial Global’s Thom Hartmann Program is moving its base of operations to Washington, DC from Portland, OR. Starting in October, Hartmann will be broadcasting...
The Murph Dawg & CJ Show adds Athens, Greenville, Richmond
The Murph Dawg & CJ Show began airing on Cox Media Group’s Power 101.1/WPUP-FM in Athens, Ga., HOT 98-1/WHZT-FM in Greenville, S.C., and HOT...
NAB continues to press the Hill for radio on cells
The National Association of Broadcasters is making sure that legislators and their staffs continue to be aware of the push to get a broadcast...
FMs for sale: FCC Auction No. 91 slated for March 2011
The FCC has announced that 147 FM CPs will be on the auction block in a proceeding scheduled to kick on 3/29/11. Will there...