Arbitron defends PPM training for agencies
Responding to the blistering attack from Cox Radio CEO Bob Neil (8/2/07 RBR #150), Arbitron notes that is has provided training on Portable People...
Entercom countersues
To no one’s surprise, Entercom has countersued to keep talk host Howie Carr from leaving WRKO-AM Boston for Greater Media’s WTKK-FM. The Boston Herald...
Air America adds new evening programming
"CLOUT! with Richard Greene", which has been airing twice on weekends, will be moving into a weeknight slot from 8-10p ET beginning 9/4. Greene...
Maryland noncom goes coastal
Your Public Radio Corporation, a non-profit station group operating in portions of Maryland, is adding a key portion, the popular resort portion of the...
Groups adjusting to PPM
Since both Beasley and Radio One have stations in Philadelphia, and Radio One in Houston as well, management at both companies were quizzed about...
FCC: Radio rates up, listenership down
The FCC's own Senior Economist George Williams wrote "Review of the Radio Industry, 2007," one of the 10 studies just released as part of...
LA still drag on Radio One, but not for sale
Q2 revenues dropped 6% for Radio One, with its reformatted Los Angeles station, KRBV-FM, still responsible for the biggest chunk of that shortfall. Some...
ABCRN signs Amy B for Country show
Country stations will get a leg up for middays with the syndication of the spunky and colorful Amy B, host of The Amy B...
The manure hits the fan in Bob Neil’s conference call
He may have signed a contract for Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM) as it rolls out to Cox Radio markets, but Cox CEO Bob...
Smokey Rivers to host "The Road"
United Stations Radio Networks announced award-winning air personality Smokey Rivers will take over the host duties on the network's long-running live Country music show,...
ABCRN signs Amy B for Country show
Country stations will get a leg up for middays with the syndication of the spunky and colorful Amy B, host of The Amy B...
Red Zebra adds in the Tidewater
Dan Snyder's radio sports group Red Zebra Broadcasting is picking up its second signal in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News market. Licensed to Hampton VA,...
Utica-Rome wasn’t unraveled in a day
In fact, it's been over a month since we reported a nine-station, four-owner transaction which is sending stations spinning in all directions in the...
New coalition opposes performance tax
We thought there was very clear handwriting on the wall following this week's hearing on performance payments on broadcast, and we weren't the only...
The manure hits the fan in Bob Neil’s conference call
He may have signed a contract for Arbitron's Portable People Meter (PPM) as it rolls out to Cox Radio markets, but Cox CEO Bob...