Portland’s Fan raises $120K for Special Olympics

Entercom’s KFXX “ESPN Sports Radio 1080 The FAN” Portland’s finished up their 3rd Annual radiothon with over $120,000 raised for Special Olympics Oregon. The...
NASH FM 94.7

Cumulus flips WDRQ to NASH FM in Detroit

Cumulus flipped Classic Hits WDRQ (Doug FM) to NASH FM 93.1 on 12/13, marking its

Last.fm lost $6 million last year

The CBS-owned streaming music service, which had 23 million subscribers in 2012, showed a loss of $6,517,237 last year, as income sank by 70%...

‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ rise

CBS was number one with adults 18-49 and with total viewers. On CBS, The Big Bang Theory earned a 5.3 up 10% from last...

AXE returning to the Super Bowl

The ad, via BBH London, marks the men’s grooming brand’s second appearance during the big game: Last year during Super Bowl XLVII, the company...
Twitter

Study: Listeners aren’t tweeting much about radio

Brandwatch released report on radio’s relationship to Twitter in the US vs. the UK. While the survey
Shopping / Christmas / Holiday

NRF: Holiday sales on target with forecast

The shortened holiday shopping season spurred consumer spending in November, as Americans took advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday
NFL / National Football League

NFL, DirecTV nearing new Sunday Ticket deal

They’ve signed off on a framework for negotiations to renew the satcaster's contract to offer the NFL Sunday Ticket football package. Renewing
FCC

Commission denies Petition for Reconsideration in Florida

Media Services Group Managing Director George Reed filed a Petition for Partial Reconsideration for WHNR-AM (Regional Mexican) Cypress Gardens
Comcast

Comcast taps strategy chief for merger-making

Comcast has named a new head of corporate development and strategy in Alexander Evans amid
Nielsen

Nielsen ranks top audio formats of 2013 by demo

As the year draws to a close, Nielsen has compiled the top 10 rankers of formats in US radio by Persons 6+, 18-34 and 25-54. This year, Nielsen says Country grow among younger listeners and set all-time highs for audience shares across the 48 Nielsen PPM markets; Pop CHR mature by increasing its listening share in the 25-54 demo; News/Talk and Sports made a big rebound during the fall; and both Urban and Hot AC had banner years—among their best ever. Classic Rock continues its downward trend:
Cumulus

Cumulus completes WestwoodOne (Dial Global) buy

Cumulus Media says it has completed the previously announced acquisition of WestwoodOne, formerly

Stocks drop for third day

Stocks closed lower on Thursday after a choppy trade as investors weighed a mixed batch of economic data and how it would affect the...
USRN

hardDrive presents two holiday shows

United Stations Radio Networks says its weekly rock program, hardDrive with Lou Brutus, will offer radio stations two different holiday special editions of the...

SRN News offering “2013: Year in Review”

Once again this year, SRN News has produced a One-Hour Special anchored by SRN's Capitol Hill correspondent Wally Hindes that looks back at the...