BE celebrates 50 years

Broadcast Electronics (BE) is inviting broadcasters to share in the celebration of its 50-year anniversary with opportunities to qualify for a Free STX LP...

Tough economy shuts down TN station

Newschannel 5 Nashville reports tough economic times have forced a mid-state Tennessee radio station off the air. WDKN-AM Dickson signed off for the last...

Streaming Your Station on the Internet?

It’s no secret that broadcasters today are faced with the biggest business challenge in the history of the medium. While past migrations in technology remained wed to broadcasting

Broadcasters speak out against Performance Tax

Yesterday (3/19) was the day that syndicated radio host Tom Joyner led a delegation of minority broadcasters to Capitol Hill to campaign against imposing...

Imus, Severin get into fiery exchange

Don Imus broadcast his morning radio show live from The Wilbur Theater in Boston on St. Patty’s Day, but it's what happened off the...

Regent and Riley sign a truce

Major shareholder Riley Investment Management has signed an agreement with Regent Communications not to mount any proxy fight through the end of this year. Veteran board member John Wyant

Milwaukee pirate hit with forfeiture

Steven A. Skalecki was using 92.9 MHz as his own personal FM station in Milwaukee, and after being notified repeatedly between March 2006 and...

Kim Vasey on RAB 2009

Kim Vasey, GroupM Senior Partner, Director of Radio, gave RBR her take on RAB 2009, which concluded yesterday: “Overall, Sheila Kirby and team a...

UT pols ask Congress to back off tax

The vast majority of legislators in the state of Utah have fired off a letter to their Washington federal delegation asking them to side...

ENCO introduces new automation interface

ENCO Systems announced that they will introduce a new radio automation product called Presenter in April at NAB2009 in Las Vegas. Following an intense...

Audemat acquires APT’s broadcast division

The Audemat Group has bought the broadcast equipment activities of the Northern Ireland Company APT. Before this development, in January 2009, the APT activity...

Fall Ratings explode for Jerry Doyle

Talk Radio Network Enterprises’ The Jerry Doyle Show, showed significant Fall 2008 ratings increases and was #1 ranked in his daypart across the board...

Montgomery Gentry to host 44th ACM Awards Nominations special

Westwood One, the Official Radio Network of the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMs), is proud to announce that this year’s ACM nominee Montgomery...

David Rehr praises Verizon, AT&T on FM-capable phones

NAB CEO David Rehr sent letters to the chief execs of Verizon Wireless and AT&T applauding the mobile phone service providers on their recent

Senator not satisfied on PPM assurances

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) says Arbitron still needs to do more to make sure that Portable People Meter (PPM) measurement doesn’t negatively impact