33rd Community Radio Conference set
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) will host the 33rd Annual Community Radio Conference March 26-29 in Atlanta. Attendees from stations in major...
Mega Media Group announces personalities for “Pulse 87 FM” NY
Pulse 87 FM (WNYZ-LP), New York's new Rhythmic Top 40 radio station, announced three veteran NYC air personalities will be joining the station launched...
Imus in the Morning Returns to DC radio
ABC Radio Networks announced the Imus in the Morning radio program will return to the Washington, D.C. airwaves on the new True Oldies 105.9...
Time to rebuild Citadel
Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller isn’t calling for the head of Farid Suleman, but he has developed a list of thing he says must...
Final tally puts radio revenues down 2% for 2007
Total radio industry revenues last year were 21.3 billion, according to the final numbers calculated for the RAB by Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co.
Small markets are the big place to be
From Citadel and other companies we have been hearing the woes of big market radio stations. But there is a very different story to...
Billy Bush signs with Westwood One
Westwood One announced the launch of The Billy Bush Show featuring Access Hollywood's co-host, Billy Bush. The evening talk and music show, produced by...
Try, try again…
Now that Arbitron has officially failed in its initial attempt to get PPM accredited by the MRC in Philadelphia and New York, it just...
Bouvard touts PPM improvement
Back from vacation, Arbitron President, Sales & Marketing Pierre Bouvard was working the phones yesterday
No dropping dead on drop dead date
Either XM or Sirius had the right to walk away from their long-pending merger as of Saturday, March 1st and analysts had asked both...
Myron Cope dead at 79
Long-time Pittsburgh Steelers radio color commentator Myron Cope has died of respiratory failure at age 79. Among other things, Cope was known as the...
Revenues fall for Cumulus, but pacings up
Cumulus Media reported that Q4 revenues were down 3.8% to 84.4 million, primarily due to a 2.8 million drop in political advertising from the...
Talk is Over, Time to Walk
2007 ended badly for Citadel Broadcasting, with pro forma revenues down 5.1% in Q4 to 245.3 million, so CEO Farid Suleman focused in his...
Latest PPM news fires up Bob Neil
The Cox Radio CEO Bob Neil suggests that the big players in New York need to stand up to Arbitron, perhaps by pulling the...
PPM denied accreditation in New York & Philly
Arbitron confirms that the Media Rating Council denied accreditation of its PPM local ratings service in both New York and Philadelphia in January. What’s...