CBS Radio to blow up 94.7 in DC
And the format switches just keep coming: Blowing up the Classic Rock format of WTGB-FM DC, John Mayer, Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5, Natasha Bedingfield,...
Jim West dead at 84
Jingle/radio legend Jim West died Friday after a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease and COPD.West started out as a jazz musician, but left the...
Lars Larson launches with 90% of former affils.
Lars Larson returns live to the national airwaves today via Compass Media Networks with 135 of the 150 (former) stations agreeing to carry the...
AWRT attacks the tax
House Judiciary Committee leaders John Conyers (D-MI) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) have heard from American Women in Radio and Television on the topic of...
Stock buys show confidence
The founding family of Entercom is continuing to buy up shares of the company’s stock in the open market. Both Joe and David Field have been shelling out their own cash to buy stock
Larry Glick dead at 87
Countless radio hosts point to Larry Glick as their inspiration with his long-running late-night show on 50kw flamethrower WBZ-AM Boston. Tributes from “Glicknics” are...
Premiere syndicates Elvis Duran Morning Show
Premiere Radio Networks announced the addition of Elvis Duran And The Morning Show to its lineup of nationally syndicated radio programs. The company will...
KeKe Luv doing it again at Kiss-FM Boise
Peak Broadcasting’s KeKe Luv, a jock at 103.3 KISS-FM Boise is once again embarking on a huge mission for the community to help prevent...
The Growing Competitive Radio Market
Like many Radio Business Report readers, the time I’ve spent as an employee in the radio industry spans decades; more appropriately, it spanned decades....
WBZ's Larry Glick dead at 87
As the inspiration for countless people on the air today, Larry Glick was a late-night fixture for decades on WBZ-AM Boston. The station reports...
RCS HD Importer 4.2 released
RCS HD Importer has been retooled to match the latest software release from iBiquity. The iBiquity 4.2 code core update enables the RCS HD...
Peak CEO Todd Lawley on makin’ it local
Peak CEO Todd Lawley does a phenomenal job on the day to day operations with its stations. We asked him a few questions about the KMJ-FM Fresno talker and website re-vamp
Case study: Peak Broadcasting takes KMJ to new audiences
Peak Broadcasting of Fresno has announced a series of initiatives designed to expand the reach of KMJ’s local news, talk, sports, and specialty programming
LPFM bill introduced in Senate
A sixpack of Senators, five Democrats and John McCain (R-AZ), have submitted the Local Community Radio Act of 2009 into the Senate. The goal...
Radio forecast even cloudier
Following a sharp downward revision in December, BAIfn VP Mark Fratrik has lowered his forecast for radio revenues yet again. He’s looking for 2009 to be even a little worse than previously forecast