musicFIRST takes its case to the FCC
RIAA-backed musicFIRST says radio stations are preventing it from buying advertising to promote the Performance Rights Act, intimidating artists
MRC briefed the FCC again
As the FCC considers whether it should (or legally can) investigate Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM), the organization which clearly does have some authority over PPM has been meeting
SIRIUS XM to air 24 Hours of Le Mans Live
SIRIUS XM will offer U.S. listeners live coverage of the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race on June 13-14 from the Circuit...
Howie Carr announces President of “Howie Nation”
After months of intense campaigning and online voting, the first-ever President of Howie Nation has been confirmed. Colonel David Hunt, a conservative military man...
Limbaugh wants to steer clear of GM
Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh is still rooting for President Obama to fail, and since the US now owns 60% of GM, he says that...
Brokers battle performance tax
Richard Kozacko, writing to Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on behalf of the National Association of Media Brokers, said that the proposed performance royalty put forth by John Conyers (D-MI) could have a devastating effect on radio
KCBS celebrates 100 years; Dan Mason comments
CBS Radio's all-News KCBS/San Francisco is gearing up to celebrate 100 years on the air. The station's first broadcast, as "San Jose Calling," was heard on June 11, 1909. The station later
S&P knocks Clear Channel down two notches
Citing “negative secular trends at Clear Channel’s radio sector,” Standard & Poor’s has cut the company’s debt rating two notches to CCC. S&P says...
Hit Parade Radio debuts on Music of Your Life
Global Radio Network’s Hit Parade Radio will be launched as a syndicated, 24/7 format for the July 4th weekend with a major entertainer to...
FC Dallas signs with ESPN Deportes
FC Dallas Soccer team announced that the team’s 19 remaining regular season games will air locally on 1540 AM ESPN Deportes Radio. FC Dallas’...
HFS returns to DC
It may not be the same free-form, progressive alternative format we knew pre-1996, but it’s back nonetheless…! WHFS, the legendary rock radio station, marks...
Clear Channel hires heavy-hitter for multi-platform sales
Clear Channel named John Partilla to the newly created position of EVP/President of Global Media Sales. Partilla will lead national business development across the...
NAB exec takes on labels
Dennis Wharton, EVP at the National Association of Broadcasters, took note of a story in the Washington Post about Herb Feemster of Peaches and Herb fame. In a letter to that newspaper, Wharton noted
WRKO host may test fleeting expletive teeth
The Supreme Court recently said that the FCC was within its rights to punish isolated incidents of profanity, or fleeting expletives, as part of its indecency enforcement. Now a WRKO-AM Boston host
LPFMs win DC Circuit battle
The National Association of Broadcasters tried and failed to overturn FCC waivers of 2nd-adjacent channel spacing requirements that protected about 40 existing LPFM stations...