Friday, September 20, 2024

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

Stations ally to oppose 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...

Who wants to buy Lincoln Financial Media?

Wall Street analysts tried to get Entercom and Cox Radio to tip their hands yesterday on how interested they are in bidding for the...

Old-fashioned radio deal

Here'a a nostalgic look at how radio stations used to be sold: two at a time, in a matching AM-FM, similarly-called set. WTSA AM...

Sirius reduced losses, outgrew XM in Q2

Sirius Satellite Radio says it ended Q2 with more than 7.1 million subscribers, growing faster than rival (and would-be merger partner) XM in both...

Moonves expresses confidence in Dan Mason

In several past quarterly conference calls, CBS Corporation CEO Les Moonves had praised the success of the “Jack” format for CBS Radio, but yesterday...

Battle lines drawn on performance payments

At issue is the symbiotic relationship between broadcasters and artists. It has long been held that radio airplay is key to the financial success...