Radio News

Since the start of 2019, KDYL-AM in South Salt Lake, Utah has served Spanish-speaking audiences along the Wasatch Front. Now, the station is poised to tweak its mission with its sale to a Hispanic evangelical broadcast ministry. 

Investors who have stuck by Salem Media Group are in for a treat. The media company saw its board of directors declare a cash dividend for Q1. The decision comes as Salem tries to recover from its worst stock performance in 7 years.

Attorneys general from 16 states have written to the Electric Drive Transportation Association and the Zero Emission Transportation Association expressing "great concern regarding the decision of many of your members to eliminate AM radios in electric cars."

In January a digital media company focused on live entertainment forged a partnership with iHeartMedia that led to the live streaming of the 2019 edition of a themed Alternative Rock event in L.A. The partnership for the "ALTer Ego" event must have been a success.

Its broadcast radius is a mere 17 miles. Yet, since December 1978 this Ontonagon County, Mich., FM has proudly used its nine watts of power to serve the tiny county seat nestled along the shores of Lake Superior. This may soon come to an end, however, due to an expansion action from the Gospel Opportunities Radio Network.

Sabina Widmann holds a Master's degree in marine affairs and fishery management. But, for the past 15 years, she's been a successful radio industry sales and management professional. This includes running the 2019 Medallas de Cortez award-winning Station of the Year.

With cost-cutting across the entire ESPN arm of Disney and "Haunted Mansion" shaping up to be a box office bomb tied to former CEO Bob Chapek, another evolution for ESPN Audio has taken shape. And, it gives Craig Karmazin's Good Karma Brands — a key ESPN Radio affiliate owner — an even greater role in a sports radio operation integral to its entire business.

iHeart is taking a definitive stance on a NAB plan to greatly weaken the Commission's ownership rules -- an opinion many radio broadcasting companies will be talking about for weeks to go. The strength of FM radio is crux to the company's argument.

It's not a ¡Gol! but perhaps another tremendo "TD" for the digital ad solutions company with its roots in radio stations serving Spanish-speaking U.S. Hispanics. Entravision has signed on to bring 51 prime National Football League games to listeners, extending an agreement that began in 2014.

A ransomware attack impacted Urban One's Q1 earnings. In early April, a ransomware attack crippled Townsquare Media's Shreveport, La., cluster. Think that's a problem? What would happen if your entire C-Suite computer network was held captive by a cybercrime syndicate?

As 2020 began, RBR+TVBR shared the news that the North Carolina corporation led by President Jeff Andrulonis had completed its purchase of an FM radio station in Bolivia, N.C. The purchase brought the station into a group of properties comprised of two FMs and an AM in coastal South Carolina. Now, an Andrulonis family member is poised to gain ownership of that very station — again.

Educational Media Foundation is at it again with the acquisition of another FM radio station -- this time on the Gulf of Mexico in Mississippi. The deal is hardly a surprise: It is already a KLOVE member station.

Liberty University will shutter the over-the-air signal for its campus station WQLU after an FCC Media Bureau inquiry into its operation. The Lynchburg, Virginia-based private evangelical Christian university filed for license renewal in 2019, which was granted. However, an inquiry was initiated by the Media Bureau.

How does Brendan Carr feel about "Ownership Limits in an Increasingly Competitive Audio Marketplace"? Attendees of a Tuesday Federalist Society luncheon may get his first public comments on the subject, along with insight from one key industry proponent of rule "modernization."

Eligible Hyundai service center customers with factory installed SiriusXM in their car now receive a complimentary three-month SiriusXM Platinum Plan subscription, which enables the customer to listen to SiriusXM in their vehicle and also via the SiriusXM app when they are not in the car.