XM/Sirius gets the Kohl shoulder
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) is head of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights (part of the Judiciary Committee), and hosted...
Satellite radio sales still slumping
Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne says his Q2 estimate that satellite radio retail sales would be down 8% "could be aggressive." April started the...
Is it "game over" with PPM winning?
That's the view from CL King analyst Jim Boyle, now that long-time critic Bob Neil at Cox Radio has signed a contract with Arbitron...
JamTraxx renewed
United Stations Radio Networks (USRN) announced it has signed a multi-year extension of its agreement to sell network commercial time for Chicago-based JamTraxx Media...
Cox Radio signs for PPM in 8 markets
Cox Radio ended its holdout back in February and began encoding for Arbitron's Portable People Meter (PPM) in Houston (2/22/07 RBR #37) after PPM...
Shareholders take final swipe at CCU
Clear Channel may be on the verge of becoming a private company, but shareholders got in a final swipe at management. They voted at...
Habitat for LPFMity
LPFM advocate Prometheus Radio Project reports that a wide cross-section of "civil rights champions, community organizers, radio enthusiasts and more" are meeting in Greenville...
Too hot to handle
Entercom's WRKO-AM Boston has dropped plans to have former Don Imus sidekick/producer Bernard McGuirk try out on air this week. The Black Community Informational...
Close encounter in West Palm Beach
The Betty Ginsburg Revocable Trust now has the keys to WDJA-AM in West Palm Beach. The sellers were Richard and Pablo Vega. Brokers John...
Hutton strikes again
Santa Fe broadcaster Ted Hutton just announced last week that he was acquiring KWRP-FM for 700K, complementing Hutton Broadcasting's other two outlets, KVSF-AM and...
Google pushes spectrum subleasing
Google auctions its own online advertising, under terms of which companies control where their ads will appear on Google's search engine by how much...
XM satellite back in business
XM Satellite Radio confirms that it was an attempted software upgrade which shut down one of its satellites, leaving many subscribers without service for...
Satellite problems for XM
The company was mum about what happened, but Internet blogs were buzzing after one of the XM Satellite Radio orbiting satellites went on the...
Go fly a KOIT
When Bonneville International swapped its three San Francisco FMs to Entercom earlier this year, we all knew its was just a matter of time...
Clear Channel goes mobile
Clear Channel Radio has launched customized mobile phone applications for five New York FM stations, the first in a nationwide rollout, allowing listeners to...