Yolanda Adams, Radio One Gospel stations raise $800K for St. Jude
The second annual Radio One/St. Jude Radiothon, featuring the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, raised $840,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Held on Thursday,...
Mega Media Group adding Pulse87 in DC
Mega Media Group has signed a multi-year air lease agreement for the WDCN-LP 87.7 frequency with Signal Above, LLC (currently Spanish Religious). Revenue will...
VA returns seized recording to WAMU
WAMU-FM DC reports The Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting an official review of why its workers confiscated the equipment of and detained WAMU...
Bubba named Grand Marshal of NASCAR race
Bubba the Love Sponge has been named Grand Marshal for the 2009 Aaron’s 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama...
WAMU reporter forced by V.A. official to hand over recording
WTOP-FM DC reports a WAMU-FM DC reporter, David Schultz, was robbed last Tuesday night inside a hospital while federal security guards watched. The victim was surrounded by seven men
KNIT sews up 10x CP upgrade
JCE Licenses’ Dallas TX KNIT-AM 1480 will be allowed to execute an upgrade from 5 kw to 50 kw during daylight hours (while holding...
MLB puts radio streams on iPhone
Major League Baseball has announced a “game changing” application for Apple’s iPhone that delivers the live radio broadcasts of every game of every team. “MLB.com At Bat 2009” was developed
BMW adds HD Radio as standard to its 6, 7 Series
iBiquity Digital and BMW announced plans to offer factory-installed HD Radio technology as a standard feature in BMW’s 2009 Model Year 7 Series and...
CAM-D inventor Kahn files suit against international banks
Kahn Communications CEO Leonard Kahn (CAM-D AM digital system inventor) has filed an amended complaint with the Southern District of NY Court (Civil Action...
Freedom Tower antenna deal nixed
PolitickerNY.com reports that the deal to broadcast 11 stations from atop the planned Freedom Tower has fallen apart, seemingly bringing to a close years...
WRMA announces new morning show
Spanish Broadcasting System and WRMA – Romance 106.7 Miami are launching a new morning reality show, “Hola Miami” on 4/13. The show will be hosted...
Murder witness confesses in Phoenix
WLWT-TV Cincinnati reports the FBI is investigating a call made to KISS FM in Phoenix in which the caller said they witnessed a murder...
Suleman’s pay fell in 2008
Citadel Broadcasting has filed the proxy for its annual shareholders meeting. The document shows that CEO Farid Suleman saw his compensation fall by nearly half last year – and much of what
Adelstein claims FCC has authority over PPM
Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein yesterday repeated his call for the FCC to launch an investigation into how Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) measures minority audiences....
FCC holds up rural radio reform
The FCC postponed consideration of a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) designed to streamline procedures for allocating and assigning new AM and FM frequencies...