Thursday, September 19, 2024

More red ink in radio's near future?

That's what CL King analyst Jim Boyle thinks. He's expecting the industry as a whole to lose 1% for the month of July compared...

Will Tribune tribulations trip up deal?

This is a transaction that is designed to go to Zell. When it was first proposed to take the company private under Sam Zell's...

BBC programming pulled off FM station in Moscow

BBC World Service has been informed by the owners of the Moscow FM radio station Bolshoye Radio that BBC programming in Russian will no...

KFRC announces all-star line up

KFRC-Fm San Francisco announced Celeste Perry has been selected as the permanent co-host of the new KFRC morning show with host Dave Sholin and...

KPIG commentator arrested on drug, weapons charges

Travus T. Hipp, a 70-year-old Nevada commentator who airs on stations including KPIG-FM Freedom, CA was arrested last week on weapons and drug charges....

Close encounter in Nebraska

G.I. Family Radio is now the proud owner of two FM DIY projects. It has CPs for stations in Paxton NE and Sutherland NE,...

Florida pirate shut down

A Creole/Haitian pirate FM is off the air in Stuart, FL after an FCC raid on last week. An FCC investigator and a detective...

A legal eagle-eye view of AMs on FM

The FCC has been allowing signal-challenged AM stations to fill in holes in their coverage via the judicious use of FM translators on a...

NABOB calls again for PPM slowdown

Arbitron remains confidentFor the second time, the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) has called for Arbitron to postpone its rollout of Portable...

July another Downer

Bank of America analyst Jonathan Jacoby says it looks like radio revenues in big markets were down around 2% in July, but he's holding...

The case for performance fees fairness

We admit it. The MusicFirst Coalition is right: "Radio should be held to the same standards and should play by the same rules as...

Radio One spins all the way out of Louisville

Most of Radio One's Louisville stations went to Dan Savadove in a 76M transaction that also included stations in the Dayton market. One lonely...

Houston adds in the DC exurbs

WPRZ-AM is located in Warrenton VA, just outside the Washington DC Arbitron market, and its about to join two other similarly-situated AM stations in...

Jacobs backs Regent dissidents

Included in the lawsuit that Regent Communications has filed against Riley Investment Management and SMH Capital are copies of faxed letters from Regent co-founder...

Entercom and Nassau in New England partnership

Entercom announced a letter of intent has been signed to have 11 Nassau Broadcasting stations carry the programming content of Entercom's Sports/Talk WEEI-AM Boston...