Bonneville's St. Louis Sports Talker adds talent
Bonneville St. Louis Radio Group’s WXOS 101 ESPN FM launched 1/1 with the addition of D'Marco Farr to their PM Drive show "The Fast...
J Niice and Julian to host morning drive On B96
CBS Radio’s WBBM-FM Chicago announce J Niice & Julian On The Radio as the new morning show on B96, Chicago’s #1 Hit Music Station. ...
Arbitron commercializes PPM in four new markets
On 12/31/08, Arbitron commercialized its Portable People Meter radio ratings service in four new local markets, releasing radio audience estimates for the December 2008...
Arbitron in talks with New Jersey AG
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram didn’t meet the December 26th deadline to respond to Arbitron’s federal lawsuit seeking to block her from interfering...
Broadcasters Foundation establishes Bill Drake Fund
The Broadcasters Foundation has also established The Bill Drake Memorial Tribute Fund, in honor of the recently passed iconic radio programmer. All contributions will...
Bonneville St. Louis gets Rams deal
Bonneville St. Louis Radio Group recently entered into a two-year deal with the St. Louis Rams for broadcast radio rights for the NFL franchise...
CC Radio Miami launches “93.9-FM MIA”
Another Smooth Jazz bites the dust—this time heritage WLVE-FM. CC Radio Miami on Christmas Day launched Rhythmic AC 93.9-FM MIA, “Move to the Music”....
They’re turning off HD in Washington, DC
Well, this time it’s not an anomaly or a digital exciter glitch—at least not that we can see. For weeks now the Washington, DC market has been turning off its HD Radio signals en masse
Clear Channel completes tender for bonds
The tender offers expired on December 23rd and Clear Channel Communications has bought back a considerable chunk of its public bonds. The company had...
Metro Traffic and TrafficLand partner
Westwood One/Metro Traffic announced a multi-year partnership with TrafficLand to combine TrafficLand's 24/7 live traffic video systems (which aggregate nearly 5,000 traffic cameras) with...
Moody’s goes negative on Sirius XM
As Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin works to refinance nearly a billion bucks worth of debt in 2009, he’ll have to do so with...
ESPN Radio adds 1230 kHz in Atlanta
ESPN Radio 1230 AM, the sister station of ESPN Radio’s current Atlanta affiliate WCNN-AM 680, will launch today. New ESPN Radio 1230’s carriage of...
Westwood adds Fred Thompson
As we mentioned last week (12/19/08 MBR), Westwood One announced the debut of The Fred Thompson Show on March 2, 2009. The show will...
FedEx will not advertise in the 2009 Super Bowl
Fed Ex Director of Advertising Steve Pacheco posted the following statement on the company’s website, as part of major cost cutting moves in place at...
NFL may not renew with Westwood One
SportsBusiness Journal reports for the first time in 22 years, the NFL is considering selling its national radio rights to a company other than Westwood One: “The league allowed an exclusive