Tidewater twosome up for auction
A pair of troubled AM stations in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News are ready to be sold out of bankruptcy, but a chance is being...
Another analyst likes XM/Sirius
An analyst from Citi Investment Research is guestimating a 60% chance that the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio will...
Journal changing auditors
Journal Communications says in an SEC filing that the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors has decided to dismiss Ernst & Young at...
Fairbanks company gets a double/cross DIY
That's as in a double FM duopoly and a cross-ownership pairing. Once it's built, KDJF-FM Delta Junction AK will pair with Tanana Valley Television...
Fort Worth AM sold
Siga Broadcasting is getting a Spanish religious station. Jose Vasquez's Garden City Broadcasting is selling KFJZ-AM to Siga for 1.8M. It'll be Siga's fifth...
Archway sells Little Rock stations
Archway Broadcasting Group announced a deal to sell KHTE-FM, KKSP-FM and KOLL-FM Little Rock, AR to Crain Media Group. Terms of the deal brokered...
Regent exits a market
Regent Communications announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest its four-station cluster serving the Watertown, NY market. The buyer, for 6.25...
ANA and RAB launch “KANA”
The RAB, in conjunction with Association of National Advertisers (ANA), is launching KANA Radio, a radio station dedicated to serving the Masters of Marketing...
Radio One is NOT pulling the plug on Syndication One
RBR has checked out a report by the online Redding News Review claiming that Radio One/REACH Media-owned Syndication One is scheduled to be shuttered...
Emmis sues CBS for snatching Berger
Walter Berger’s exit from Emmis Communications to join CBS Radio (then known as Infinity) as CFO (12/7/05 RBR #238) was not entirely amicable. We...
Westwood One spells out CBS deal
Westwood One executives got into the nitty gritty financial deals of their new deal with CBS Radio (10/4/07 RBR #194) in a conference call...
Emmis Indianapolis shuffles formats; adds ESPN
Emmis Indianapolis announced that beginning 1/7/08, its programming on flagship WIBC-AM will be separated, with CHR WNOU 93.1 FM becoming WIBC-FM and broadcasting a...
Don't get mad, get a station
It's not every day you get off the beach by buying a station on the beach. WLSC-AM Loris doesn't quite qualify for that latter,...
Deal struck for troubled Mobile FM
WAVH-FM Daphne AL was to be sold by debtor-in-possession Barry D. Wood to Cumulus Media, according to a contract filed with the FCC 2/6/03....
The Steel City has got game
As reported in Friday's MBR (10/05/07 MBR), CBS flipped talker 93.7 The Zone back to the future, returning to it's once 18-49 dominant CHR...