Radio News

Travel north of Arkansas' biggest city, and you'll reach Greenbrier. Here, a Country radio station has served local listeners with a Class C3 signal owned by Crain Media Group. Pending FCC approval, it will become the latest property to be owned by Bobby Caldwell.

Since late Wednesday, Boise State Public Radio's entire network of stations went dark. Now, the NPR Member stations' licensee is sharing that it is back on air on some channels "with temporary workarounds." However, online streaming remains off air. The problem is all tied to manhole work that disrupted a critical fiber optic cable.

Radio industry veteran Gary Krantz is preparing through his Krantz Media Group and KMG Networks the launch of a 24/7 domestic podcast-driven radio format, with AM and FM radio stations in four regions of the U.S. poised to adopt the programming.

The founder and dean of the NAB Leadership Foundation’s (NABLF) Broadcast Leadership Training program will receive the 2023 National Radio Award from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). The award will be presented at NAB Show New York during the 2023 Marconi Radio Awards Dinner on October 25.

The nation's foremost multimedia company superserving African American consumers has confirmed that it is in receipt of a letter from the Nasdaq stock market notifying it that it is not in compliance with its listing rule.  It's hardly a surprise, and as far as Urban One is concerned, it's merely a formality.

Say farewell to the sport talk programming offered from CBS Sports Radio if you're a listener to a Class B AM licensed to Kinston, N.C., serving the Greenville-New Bern market. Instead, it's time to wager on new success for this Dick Broadcasting station, thanks to a new partnership with DraftKings-owned VSiN.

With the publication on Tuesday of an Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would allow the FCC to update its FM and LPFM rules to give HD multicast signals the ability to boost their power output, a Comment Date and Reply Comment Date is now in place.

As neighboring Maui continues to recover from devastating wildfires in three parts of the island, one radio station owner is giving away two of its AM radio stations on Oah'u, reinforcing the dominance of FM radio across the Hawaiian Islands. 

Six years ago, Jeff Ziesmann was finalizing the acquisition of WNKN-FM, serving Cincinnati and Dayton, from Northern Kentucky University. Now, he's signed off on its sale.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Radio report is out, and the biggest takeaway is that, for the top three brands using the medium, their commitment of broadcast audio stands out.

A party with no relationship to the licensee of a former New Mexico AM and its FM translator on August 2 filed an "Emergency Petition for Extraordinary Relief" with the FCC. Why? It wants the licenses and call letters reinstated so may operate them. That petition has been dismissed by Audio Division Chief Al Shuldiner. 

In May, a federal judge struck down the Radio Music License Committee’s case to combine rate court proceedings with ASCAP and BMI. Undaunted, the RMLC has filed its intention to separately litigate cases with each organization to keep current radio royalty rates in place until at least 2026.

It's not a ¡Gol! but perhaps another tremendo "TD" for the digital ad solutions company with its roots in radio stations serving Spanish-speaking U.S. Hispanics. Entravision has signed on to bring 51 prime National Football League games to listeners, extending an agreement that began in 2014.

He's known for such rock and roll favorites as the 1972 smash "School's Out" and the 1989 "comeback" single "Poison." For many radio listeners, he's also known as the host of a syndicated program he's helmed for nearly two decades. Now, Alice Cooper is ready to wind down his nightly offering, as the final week of fresh programs is now confirmed. 

For years, he was one-half of a morning duo who were heard on radio stations in markets ranging from San Francisco and Dallas to Atlanta and Raleigh, where they were last heard until August 2016 on "Mix 101.5." Now, an outpouring of condolences have been made to Julie Gates via Facebook after she revealed in a social media post that her husband, Gene Gates, has died.