Radio News

With Emmis Corporation earning "overwhelming support" from shareholders to amend its articles of incorporation, the company is moving ahead with a three-year privatization plan allowing it to reinvent itself and invest in new endeavours outside of radio station ownership. Now, "the programming genius" behind some of its former hallmark radio stations has announced his retirement — sort of.

A $655,000 investment in WECK-AM and its first FM translator by Buddy Shula in November 2016 has paid off. Today, a total of three FM translators rebroadcast WECK, a consistent Top 10 finisher in the Buffalo radio ratings. Now, that success is poised to be extended to local broadcast television.

Tune to 1590 kHz anywhere between Kenosha, Wisc., and Gary, Ind., and you'll come across one of the more unique AM radio stations serving one of America's largest cities. Its programming is a virtual cornucopia of niche spoken word programming, and its overnight offering is "Ambiente Clásico," targeting Spanish speakers. The individual associated with that program is now buying this Class B facility.

The FCC has announced the Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2023. The update comes with several new features and stipulations that affect commercial AM and FM radio stations, FM translators, and FM boosters. 

Forget the Golden Arches or the place where the royal treatment is having it "your way." The QSR leader, by a mile, on the latest Spot Ten Radio report from Media Monitors is the hamburger chain founded by Dave Thomas.

The Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference is one of the nation's biggest financial events for institutional investors. And, the nation's No. 1 owner of radio stations and producer of audio content will have a presence there.

In July 2023, RBR+TVBR confirmed that Hope Media Group would be acquiring WVIP-FM 93.5 from the broadcasting company formed by the late Bill O'Shaughnessy. That left a Class D AM licensed to the Westchester County city of New Rochelle. Whitney Media has now decided to donate that station.

Travel north of Arkansas' biggest city, and you'll reach Greenbrier. Here, a Country radio station has served local listeners with a Class C3 signal owned by Crain Media Group. Pending FCC approval, it will become the latest property to be owned by Bobby Caldwell.

Since late Wednesday, Boise State Public Radio's entire network of stations went dark. Now, the NPR Member stations' licensee is sharing that it is back on air on some channels "with temporary workarounds." However, online streaming remains off air. The problem is all tied to manhole work that disrupted a critical fiber optic cable.

Radio industry veteran Gary Krantz is preparing through his Krantz Media Group and KMG Networks the launch of a 24/7 domestic podcast-driven radio format, with AM and FM radio stations in four regions of the U.S. poised to adopt the programming.

The founder and dean of the NAB Leadership Foundation’s (NABLF) Broadcast Leadership Training program will receive the 2023 National Radio Award from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). The award will be presented at NAB Show New York during the 2023 Marconi Radio Awards Dinner on October 25.

The nation's foremost multimedia company superserving African American consumers has confirmed that it is in receipt of a letter from the Nasdaq stock market notifying it that it is not in compliance with its listing rule.  It's hardly a surprise, and as far as Urban One is concerned, it's merely a formality.

Say farewell to the sport talk programming offered from CBS Sports Radio if you're a listener to a Class B AM licensed to Kinston, N.C., serving the Greenville-New Bern market. Instead, it's time to wager on new success for this Dick Broadcasting station, thanks to a new partnership with DraftKings-owned VSiN.

With the publication on Tuesday of an Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would allow the FCC to update its FM and LPFM rules to give HD multicast signals the ability to boost their power output, a Comment Date and Reply Comment Date is now in place.

As neighboring Maui continues to recover from devastating wildfires in three parts of the island, one radio station owner is giving away two of its AM radio stations on Oah'u, reinforcing the dominance of FM radio across the Hawaiian Islands.