June puts the slug in sluggish
2007 has been a lack-luster year, and the results for June have taken the lack of luster to a new low. The Radio Advertising...
Battle lines drawn at Regent
Riley Investment Management says it will sue the management and board of directors at Regent Communications because the company has not called a special...
Declines continue for Westwood One
Q2 revenues came in below Wall Street expectations for Westwood One, down 17.4% to 111.1 million. CEO Peter Kosann says there are signs that...
ABC 24-hour formats reduce local avails
ABC Radio Networks' Today's Best Country is removing three minutes of its top of the hour local avails. Affiliates have been given 30 days'...
Close encounter in Flagstaff
Walker Radio is officially in business. James R. Walker's company closed on its first radio station, KFZA-FM in Flagstaff AZ. Tower Investment Trust was...
Lazer takes Mapleton’s Salisbury stake
When California radio operator Mapleton Communications acquired KWWV-FM & KXTY-FM in the San Luis Obispo market, it knew it could only keep one of...
BE HD Radio transmitter lowered in by helicopter
A helicopter lowers KDNN-FM's new BE FMi 25T HD Radio transmitter through a narrow access in the roof of the Century Plaza in Honolulu....
McCaskill joins ranks of XM/Sirius foes
Frosh Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has fired off a letter to Assistant AG Thomas Barnett and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in opposition to the...
SWMX partners with Zimmerman for "Z-Media Exchange"
Ft. Lauderdale-based Zimmerman Advertising says it has found a way to modernize media buying, via Z-Media Exchange - a new partnership between Zimmerman and...
Clear Channel sale to Devine craters; 11 markets back in play
Chris Devine’s Blue Point Media, one of the first big buyers announced in the Clear Channel Radio divestitures of small and medium market clusters,...
Ron Lyons dead at 69
Long-time KCBS-AM San Francisco traffic reporter Ron Lyons died of cancer last Friday in Medford, OR. Although Lyons retired in 2004 and moved to...
NAB Radio Show to feature three day tech program
A comprehensive technical program will be held during The NAB Radio Show in Charlotte beginning 9/26. The program features the Society of Broadcast Engineers...
Tidewater price revealed
We learned last week that the O&O radio range of the Washington Redskins was being extended within the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News market. Now we...
Close encounter on the SD-MN border
Jody McCoy of Media Services group tells us the the 2.9M deal sending a quarter of small market Midwest stations from Big Stone Broadcasting/Pheasant...
NAB says XM/Sirius a la carte less than meets the ear
The a la carte plan being proposed by Sirius and XM has been praised by the Parents Television Council, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin...