Shazam gets $40 million investment from Carlos Slim
With unlimited tagging in the Free and premium Encore Apps on iOS and Android devices, Shazam lets consumers discover, explore, buy, and share music,...
Global mobile ad revenues up 83% in 2012
The U.S. IAB Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence, IAB Europe and IHS revealed global figures for mobile ad revenue leaped a massive 82.8% to...
Entravision, Abacast sign streaming deal
It’s a comprehensive digital audio streaming and digital ad sales agreement where Entravision will leverage the Abacast Clarity Digital Radio System as its online...
GM change at Dick Broadcasting
Word has it that GM Bruce Wheeler left the Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC cluster on 7/1 and that former crosstown CCME WMAG-FM GM Dick Harlow may be the replacement. Harlow left CCME Raleigh-Durham in January. Dick Broadcasting confirmed that Wheeler is gone but no word on his replacement. The cluster includes Top 40 WKZL-FM and Rock 92 WKRR-FM.
Stocks rise for third session
Stocks gained for a third session on Monday as Wall Street looked to the second-quarter earnings season. After climbing as much as 126 points,...
Tim Jeffreys leaving KFOG mornings
Morning driver Tim Jeffries is reportedly leaving to pursue another opportunity—possibly within the Cumulus/Bay Area station group. Cluster OM Bill Pugh is sitting in...
“Livio Keys,” FM Traffic Button launch for OEMs
Livio unveiled the two new offerings at Telematics Update in Detroit. Livio Keys is intended to be a communications solution for everything related to...
Two seconds is too much of a stock tip advantage
New York AG Eric T. Schneiderman has an agreement with Thomson Reuters which is designed to level the field for those playing the stock...
Young at heart Media General gets upgrade
Television group Media General will be more than young at heart – it’s going to have the stations of Young
GA politician gets controversial radio gig
The fact that Chip Rogers (R) left a gig as the Majority Leader of the Georgia State Senate to take a public radio gig...
CBS re-ups with Netflix
It’s an extension of its multiyear licensing agreement for select CBS library content streamed instantly to Netflix customers. Under the revised deal, new titles...
Hal Ramey returns to KCBS after surgery
The KCBS-AM San Francisco veteran sports anchor didn’t say a word for three months because of a growth on his vocal cords. The condition...
Cumulus Dallas FM sale leading to new buy?
Cumulus is in the process of spinning KTDK-FM Sanger TX to Media Services Group broker
Fox, CBS finish Sunday in a dead heat
CBS had almost twice as many total viewers as Fox Sunday night, but Fox dominated the 18-34 audience as the duo dueled to an...
Nebraska radio trio gets some R&R
$1.15M KBMR-FM Omaha NE (Blair NE) & KHUB-AM/KFMT-FM Fremont NE from Community First Media of Nebraska LLC (Richard Chapin, Dean Sorenson) to R&R Broadcasting...