Four new shows set for kiddie block
"Kids' WB!" on the CW will premiere four new series on September 22 as the Saturday morning kids programming block officially begins its 2007...
Alaskan Fox affiliate sold
Piedmont Television Holdings, headed by Theodore Horton Jr., has filed with the FCC to sell KTBY-TV (Ch. 4, Fox) Anchorage for 3,242,500 bucks. The...
WTKK adds Phil Hendrie in Boston
Greater Media announced the addition of The Phil Hendrie Show to the 96.9 FM TALK line-up debuting on 9/10. The overnight show is scheduled...
Journal buys back shares
Journal Communications has bought back 3.2 million shares of the company's stock for 32 million bucks from Matex Inc. and modified its agreement with...
Teserio bags lion's share of Amsterdam AM
John A. Tesiero Jr. has a deal which will give him 76% control of WCSS-AM Amsterdam NY, in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy market. He'll pay a...
McGavren Guild reups with WBEB-FM Philadelphia
Interep announced its McGavren Guild national representation firm has signed a five-year contract renewal with WBEB-FM in Philadelphia. "This renewal is indicative of the...
Civil rights groups oppose satellite merger
The NAB continues to line up opposition to the proposed merger of XM and Sirius Satellite Radio as XM and Sirius do likewise to...
Changes working at CBS Radio
Despite a slight year-over-year decline in ratings, Wachovia analyst Marci Ryvicker notes that CBS Radio was up in the Spring Arbitron ratings from the...
In praise of Houston PPM coverage last week – Bob Neil, Cox Radio CEO
Thanks for spending the time this week getting to understand some of these PPM issues. I think I said before, I know we as...
Conservative pundits take down XM/Sirius
J. Gregory Sidal and Hal J. Singer, writing in the conservative Washington Times, get right into the meat of the matter when discussing the...
Bonneville-Washington Post Radio in DC may be gone by Labor Day
That's what multiple DC area media outlets are forecasting. The year-and-a-half all-news partnership with the paper may be gone, or at least changed to...
Last Bastion flips a Citadel orphan
Eliott Evers of brokerage Media Venture Partners is the headmaster of an orphanage comprised of over-the-local-limit Citadel Broadcasting radio stations which lost their grandfather...
EMF lands in the TX panhandle
The bottom of the panhandle, mind you, but that is the location of the latest acquisition for voracious Educational Media Foundation. It is getting...
Radio up across the pond
Word from The RadioCentre in London, and its division known locally as the Radio Advertising Bureau not only had a positive second quarter, they...
Sally ditches the ABC satellite
From Mark Heller at WGBW Radio in Two Rivers, WI: "Sally Jessy Raphael is stopping her distribution via ABC Satellite on Friday, and we...