NPR taps Intelsat for increased capacity
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of commercial satellite services, announced NPR signed a multi-transponder, multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity to support the distribution...
iBiquity Digital upsizes in Detroit
The Oakland Business Review reports iBiquity Digital 's Michigan automotive sales office is growing fast as it projects a surge in demand for HD,...
Four streams rate with Arbitron’s PPM
July PPM data sent out yesterday by Arbitron includes, for the first time, listening to encoded digital streams. The company says 287 Internet and HD streams are being encoded in PPM
“Hold Their Feet to the Fire” set for 9/10
The FAIR Congressional Task Force (FCTF) announced September 10 and 11 as the dates for its annual Hold Their Feet to the Fire in Washington, D.C. Currently, almost 50 radio hosts
Artists/labels: A marriage made in…
…well, it certainly doesn’t appear to be any place good. The Allman Brothers say that UMG Recordings is $10M in arrears of royalty payments...
Sirius offers to fix overpowered radios
To comply with its agreement with the FCC, the Sirius side of Sirius XM has been notifying subscribers that the company will, at no...
WFED Federal News Radio to move in DC
Bonneville International will move its federally-focused radio station, 1050 WFED Federal News Radio, to a full-market signal on 1500 AM and 820 AM in...
Dickey sees lack of radio pricing discipline
Cumulus Media is telling Wall Street to expect more of the same in Q3 – a 3-4% decline in revenues – after reporting that Q2 revenues fell 4.2% to $83.6 million. Station operating income was
Clear Channel Radio down 6%
CC Media Holdings, the new parent company of Clear Channel Communications, reports that Q2 revenues rose 2% to $1.83 billion. That was all due...
Outdoor gain softens CC Radio decline
The first quarterly report by CC Media Holdings, the new parent company of Clear Channel Communications, shows revenues for Q2 up 2% to $1.83 billion. The improvement is entirely due to
Univision outperforms in radio and TV
Excluding soccer tournaments and political, Univision reports that Q2 revenues were up 0.4%, so its core business is performing much better than its peers. In absolute terms
Sirius XM radio at a buck a share?
Mel Karmazin recently bought two million shares of Sirius XM for just over $1.37 each, but Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Wienkes thinks the CEO overpaid. Wienkes, who had pre-merger Sirius
Big Talker 1210, WPHT revises evening line-up
The Big Talker 1210, WPHT launches a new evening programming line-up beginning on Monday, August 18th. The Dom Giordano Show expands and moves to...
John Cooley dead after long ABC News Radio career
ABC News Radio reports that veteran correspondent John Cooley died last Thursday in Athens, Greece after a three-year battle with cancer. Cooley was believed...
Mel has Clear Channel radio in his sights
Mel Karmazin is no longer talking about satellite radio as an industry – he says Sirius XM, with $2.4 billion in annual revenues, is the second largest pure play radio company