Friday, September 20, 2024

Friday is the day for AM HD @ night

AM HD DXers get ready-This Friday, 9/14 at 7PM, AM stations will be allowed to keep their AM HD signals on 24/7. Tom Ray,...

Bott family picking up two in Sioux

A pair of Iowa FM stations are on their way to a new owner and a new operating status, and though they both have...

Close encounter in Pittsburgh

The transaction sending WLFP-AM Pittsburgh from Inner City Broadcasting to BusinessTalkRadio.net Inc. is a done deal. The deal, brokered by Frank Boyle, went into...

HD RADIO 2007, Polk Audio, JBL receivers

Polk Audio, JBL receivers to combine HD Radio with iPod dock. Polk Audio introducing second tabletop audio solution, the I-Sonic Entertainment System 2 which...

CC Radio to offer iTunes tagging

Clear Channel Radio announced it will offer HD digital radio broadcasts for devices supporting Apple's implementation of a new HD digital radio tagging feature....

MMTC pushed NAB Radio Show events

With the kick-off of the 2007 NAB Radio Show fast approaching, David Honig of Minority Media and Telecommunications Council has highlighted a number of...

What's next for Bruce Williams

Bruce Williams confirmed to RBR yesterday that his syndication deal with Lifestyle TalkRadio Network is up in a couple of months and there is...

PPM impacting company-wide ratings stats

The analysts at Bear Stearns have been crunching the Arbitron numbers from the latest book and noticed a trend: "In an analysis of the...

PPM highlighted in WSJ

The scary subhead to yesterday's story in the Wall Street Journal was "Philly Stations Cut Ad Rates." The story actually quotes an ad buyer...

Arbitron to guarantee PPM sample sizes

Exact details are yet to be worked out, but Arbitron has told clients it will reduce their bills if it fails to hit targets...

Satellite radio receivers slow movers

Retail sales of satellite radio receivers were down again in July for both Sirius and XM. Bank of America analyst Jonathan Jacoby reports that...

Close encounter in Alice

Claro Communications Ltd., headed by Gerald Benavides, is the proud new owner of KOPY AM & FM in Alice TX, according to Media Services...

David Magnum's Price revealed

David Magnum's three-station buy in Reedsburg WI is going in the books for 1.1M, according to documents filed with the FCC. The deal, handled...

KSEV signs for PPM

Locally owned talk station KSEV-AM, owned by Dan Patrick, is the latest Houston station to sign a multi-year deal for PPM ratings from Arbitron....

Objections overruled

Citizens objecting to the airing of allegedly indecent material have filed to deny license renewals for stations owned by Clear Channel and Emmis. In...