Sovereign City debuts Great Day with Jim & Debbie
Sovereign City Communications announced the launch of its new positive AC morning show Great Day with Jim & Debbie for national distribution. The show...
WFAN and Mets reach new multi-year deal
The New York Mets and Sports Radio 66 WFAN announced an extension of their broadcast partnership for live play-by-play coverage of Mets preseason, regular...
NPR brings election coverage to millions of deaf
On election night, millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing people will be able to experience live radio coverage for the first time, when NPR, Harris...
Lawsuits taking toll on Arbitron
Arbitron told Wall Street analysts that full year 2008 earnings will come in at the low end of the company’s previous guidance, largely due to the costs of fighting multiple court cases
New IBOC Translator From Larcan
Larcan has a new IBOC FM translator for digital broadcasting, dubbed the Encore Series. It features power levels from 25 to 250 Watts, supports...
KCBS adds FM carrier
San Francisco-KCBS 740-AM (All News) has added another distribution outlet to the growing list of available ways to receive the station’s content. Beginning on...
Dial-Global names format management team
Following the recent merging of Dial Global’s 24-hour music formats with those of the former Jones Radio Networks, Dial Global Programming President Kirk Stirland...
Hall of Famers
Country Radio Broadcasters Inc. has announced its 2009 Hall of Fame inductees. Chuck Collier (currently at WGAR-FM Cleveland) and Gerry House (WSIX-FM Nashville) will...
Beusse still gets paid
By comparison to what we’ve seen in the headlines for departing CEOs at troubled financial institutions, Tom Beusse doesn’t exactly have a golden parachute....
Westwood One reorganizes top management
As first reported by RBR Saturday afternoon, Westwood One announced the reorganization of its executive management team. The changes were
Radio revenues remain a hardhat zone
That’s because so much debris is falling. In point of fact, the radio business posted significantly better September revenues year-over-year than it did in August, but the bottom line loss of -8% does more
Westwood One reorganizes top management
As first reported by RBR Saturday afternoon, Westwood One today announced the reorganization of its executive management team. The changes were initiated by the...
FCC hits stations for phone violations
The wrong number for a pair of Spanish Broadcasting System New York City FMs may well be 16K – put a dollar sign in...
Can Sirius XM survive?
Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Wienkes dares to raise the question of the “viability of the current business model” in his latest missive to clients on Sirius XM. The satellite radio company remains on his
Short and turbulent run for Beusse at WW1
Friday’s exit of Westwood One CEO Tom Beusse was certainly sudden and unexpected. It was just this month that he bought 375,000 shares of the company’s stock for $150,000 as one of three top execs to