CCU donates stations to MMTC
Clear Channel has finally found a way to clear out some of its excess inventory, and it is indeed a noble way. It is donating four AM stations -- in Arkansas, Minnesota, Mississippi and Virginia – to the Minority Media
Pulse 87.7 begging listeners (literally) for support
Radiothons are common practice for noncommercial radio stations to raise money, but this time it is Pulse 87.7 (the Channel 6 audio of WNYZ-LP)
Michael Savage welcome in jolly old England
The UK’s new Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has dropped US radio talk host Michael Savage from a list of people barred from entering the...
Inlet Technologies supports live streaming to iPhone
Inlet Technologies, provider of live streaming and on-demand solutions for digital media, announced it is one of the first encoding technology providers to publicly...
Marconi finalists announced
The NAB has released this year’s list of stations and personalities in line to receive a Marconi Award at the NAB Radio Show in...
Musicians getting ripped off, all right
Jim Cooper (D-TN) took to the pages of his hometown Nashville Tennessean to argue in favor of the Performance Rights Act, saying that
MMTC proposes “radio rescue”
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC), which begins its annual Access to Capital and Telecom Policy Conference today in Washington, has sent the...
PPM improvement in Detroit, but still a problem
The Black 18-34 Portable People Meter (PPM) sample grew in the Detroit market in June, but still remained under target. Arbitron has released June
Walter Cronkite dead at 92
The CBS news anchor that instilled in all Americans a level of honest reporting and trust during the golden age of television passed away...
WideOrbit to buy Google Radio
Well, the rumors everyone has been hearing are pretty much true: Revenue Management systems provider WideOrbit has all but purchased Google Radio Automation, after...
Sirius XM short a director
Sirius XM says it has received an official notice from Nasdaq that it is not in compliance with the rule that requires a majority...
Two charged in radio scam
Two people living in the Buffalo, New York area have been charged with diverting money to themselves that they were supposed to use to...
Three more lawmakers oppose performance fees
The NAB is still a long way from amassing a majority in the Senate, but the count is now 20 for co-sponsors of the Local Radio Freedom Act, which opposes imposition of any performance royalty payments to record
Arbitron claims lead in identifying CPOs
That’s cell-phone-only households. Arbitron announced that, for the first time, it has compiled population estimates for CPO households down to the
NAACP endorses bankrupting black radio
Despite estimates that a performance fee would wipe out at least a third of all existing minority-owned radio stations, the NAACP yesterday gave a