WWI/CBS Radio will air Palin interview
CBS News anchor Katie Couric scored a big “get,” an interview with Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin (R-AK), and the CBS family will make...
Westwood One re-engineers Metro Traffic
Emulating successful broadcast weather operations, Westwood One is going to pull its Metro Traffic service from 60 local operations to 13 regional hubs. That...
Martin open to resolving localism issues
Under questioning at the NAB Radio Show in Austin, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin acknowledged angst among broadcasters who think the Commission’s pending proposal to...
Hail to the chiefs!
“Bring back the local read,” said Pierre Bouvard, President Sales & Marketing, Arbitron, who also proposed that each station turn over a piece of its inventory to its national rep exclusively
Radio’s problem is perception
All of the group heads said their companies were embracing new technology to put their content on new platforms, but a lot of the discussion was about programming – developing the content
Bonneville uses HD to bring WorldBand to DC
Washington DC is a multilingual community, and Bonneville International is going to take advantage of an HD side channel on its Newser WTOP-FM to...
KLBJ selects ConvoCast for audience-powered content
KLBJ AM 590 Austin, TX, an Emmis station, announced a partnership with ConvoCast, a voice-enabled audio community company that has created an innovative platform...
Content Factory adds “Into the Night With Tony Bruno”
Veteran sportscaster Tony Bruno will add to the growing roster of The Content Factory. Tony's career spans two decades including stints with ESPN and...
Group PD's embrace PPM
“I can’t wait. Atlanta is our first market,” said Lincoln Financial Media VP of Programming and Operations John Dimick as he spoke of Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) on a panel with other group PDs
Radio’s red plague continues
Who woulda thunk that CL King’s Jim Boyle was overly optimistic the other day when he predicted that radio was going to drop 8%-9%...
The Laura Ingraham Show adds WBAP, KVI
Yet more of the show's 17 New M-F stations being announced: Talk Radio Network Enterprises' The Laura Ingraham Show debuts September 22 on Citadel/ABC's...
Arbitron cussed and discussed
Arbitron officials were facing criticism on two fronts yesterday at the NAB Radio Show. In a session on PPM, WBLS-FM New York General Manager Deon Levingston complained that not a single agency
Group heads slam the FCC
“We need some structural relief,” said Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey. But given the current anti-consolidation mode on Capitol Hill, no one was predicting that further deregulation will come anytime soon. With so much talk about digital initiatives
Radio industry to benefit as RBR and Radio Guide Magazine team up
Radio Business Report (RBR) and Radio Guide Magazine today announced an agreement to make the broad range of news and information from both publications available to readers
Rehr warns against negativism
He didn’t quote Spiro Agnew’s criticism of "nattering nabobs of negativism” as Saga CEO Ed Christian had done a few hours earlier, but NAB President and CEO David Rehr warned against