Bubba the Love Sponge presents check to officers’ families
Checks totaling $24,000 were presented 11-19 to the families of two local Tampa law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty, or...
Why there is confusion about the Citadel Broadcasting price
RBR-TVBR analysis: the price to be $2.4 billion and Citadel
Entercom's David Field sees problem ahead for Pandora
Pandora has a fundamental business issue to deal with. Right now they
SiriusXM Financial Maneuver Scrutinized
Satellite audio service SiriusXM has increased its revolver
Fred Grandy exits WMAL-AM DC in dispute
Former actor and US Representative Fred Grandy (R-IA) has left Citadel
NPR wins grant to cover state governments
Affiliates of National Public Radio in all 50 states will be stepping up their coverage of state government, using a three-year, $1.8M grant from...
Banks fire back
Battling continues over which court, if any, should determine whether six big banks have to step up to the plate and finance the 26.7 billion bucks buyout of Clear Channel Communications.
SBS’s WXDJ Miami fails to hang up $16K phone fine
An agent of WXDJ-FM Miami called a woman and, pretending to be a hospital employee, drove her to the point of hysteria by telling...
NPR funding survives lame duck session
A push to defund National Public Radio by House Republicans failed, allowing executives of the embattled network to rest easy through the holidays. But the respite may be short-lived, as Republicans
It’s Official: ‘ZoneCasting’ Rule Changes Now In Effect
Six weeks ago, the FCC adopted changes to its rules that will allow FM booster stations to originate programming — “subject to future adoption of processing, licensing, and service rules” as proposed in a FNPRM — and public input. As of today, the rule changes are now effective.
In praise of Houston PPM coverage last week – Bob Neil, Cox Radio CEO
Thanks for spending the time this week getting to understand some of these PPM issues. I think I said before, I know we as...
Cumulus Media trading volume cooling off
About 80 million new Cumulus Media shares were created when the company acquired Citadel Broadcasting on September 16th. As you would expect, trading volume of Cumulus stock
RASS adds Moby in the Morning to client roster
Radio Affiliate Services & Syndication President Scott Gilreath said “Moby’s a great talent and has proven himself time and time again over the past...
Close encounter on the SD-MN border
Jody McCoy of Media Services group tells us the the 2.9M deal sending a quarter of small market Midwest stations from Big Stone Broadcasting/Pheasant...
Hot 105.7’s debut and some stunting ideas
San Francisco radio station KVVF Latino Mix 105.7 began playing the same song repeatedly last Friday at 3pm. The station selected Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” the number 21 Best Summer Song of All Time as ranked by Rolling Stone. The question quickly became, “Why?”