XM targets businesses
XM Satellite Radio has contracted with PlayNetwork to manage commercial business sales and service on behalf of XM. The new “XM for Business” service...
Radio gets Retro
Retro Television Network has expanded into radio, launching RTN Radio, a syndicated radio service featuring chart-topping songs primarily from the ’70s. RTN, which is...
Former programmer/DJ sentenced to 7 years
Former WDJX-FM Louisville Program Director Todd Smith, known on the air as Todd Kelly, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison and...
ESPN, Sirius expand relationship
Sirius Satellite Radio and ESPN announced today a multi-year extension to their current broadcast agreement, which will provide listeners with an enhanced ESPN channel. ...
XM offering free podcasts
XM Satellite Radio is making select original music, news, and sports programming available for free podcast download via xmradio.com and Apple's iTunes. Programming includes...
ABC Radio Networks/GAC Television Partnership
Television network Great American Country (GAC) and ABC Radio Networks have teamed up to produce a new syndicated nighttime country music radio show—GAC Nights:...
Intel Radio Network launching second show
IRN Founder Rick Senninger is close to launching “Talk That Matters,” a new Conservative Talk Show focusing on what the general public is actually...
Legal beagle handicaps Savage suit
Michael Savage is going after the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for going after him. CAIR is not at all happy with the opinions...
Runoff election for two RAC seats
Ballots have been sent out to decide two elections to the Arbitron Radio Advisory Council (RAC) where no one got enough votes to be...
Arbitron changing Condensed Market tool
You may recall the recent exchange in RBR between Northern Broadcast, Traverse City, MI General Manager Charlie Ferguson and Arbitron VP Thom Mocarsky over...
Gordon Mason dead at 80
Former Southern California Broadcasters Association (SCBA) President Gordon Mason has died at age 80. After retirement, Mason had continued to write articles for the...
XM off the hook
XM Satellite Radio reported in an SEC filing something the SEC itself already knew – that the SEC staff had wrapped up an investigation...
Galaxy Comm. settles suit for 1 million
A woman, Athena Andrikopoulos, severely burned as a child will receive 1 million dollars to settle a suit she filed against Syracuse-based Galaxy Communications...
MRC, A few words, and only a few
The Media Rating Council (MRC) is famed for its extreme secrecy, but RBR did receive a response from MRC Executive Director George Ivie to...
Pittman booked for Radio Luncheon
The last time we saw Bob Pittman at an NAB convention in Las Vegas he was speaking to a “new media” gathering, but even...