Broadcast News

Matthew Wesolowski, SSR Communications’ WYAB-FM

The Commission’s auction of 22 CPs for new AM signals is over after six days of bidding. 22 stations were available and 10 received bids. The frequencies and calls, locations, amounts, winners and station power:

America’s Morning Show welcomed Craig Morgan to the NASH Campus 5/13 to talk about his latest hit single "Wake Up Lovin' You," and last week's trip to Afghanistan to entertain the troops on behalf of Stars and Stripes and Armed Forces Entertainment. Pictured (L-R): Chuck Wicks (AMS Co-Host), Terri Clark (AMS Co-Host,) Craig Morgan and Blair Garner (AMS Host.)

This year, WGN Radio celebrates 90 years of growing up in Chicago. On June 1, 1924, the Chicago Tribune converted the operations that had formerly been WDAP to WGN, with the new call letters paying homage to the “World's Greatest Newspaper.” WGN quickly proved itself a pioneer in radio and went on to establish several broadcasting “firsts," such as the Memorial Day 500 (later known as the Indy 500), the Kentucky Derby, and the live courtroom proceedings of the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Here’s a list of the FCC’s latest licenses, construction permits and transfers of control—granted and dismissed

More evidence that this year’s TV upfront may not be all that hot. This time, a Wall Street Journal piece

Cumulus Media has promoted John Gallagher to Regional Vice President

Police swarmed Scripps’ WMAR-TV Baltimore (ABC) 5/13 after a man rammed his truck multiple times

AT&T is in active talks to buy DirecTV and may complete a deal in the next few weeks that could be worth close to...

In response to the introduction of legislation 5/12 in the Senate to increase the rates that songwriters

Amy Peet, senior digital marketing manager at Chrysler, said at the recent 2014 MMA Forum that as the company begins to invest more in location-based mobile advertising, geofencing is paying off for the brand while geo conquesting has not been successful so far.