Monday, September 16, 2024

Jerry Lee to receive NAB National Radio Award

Jerry Lee, the legendary independent owner of WBEB-FM Philadelphia, will receive the NAB National Radio Award on 9/28, during the Radio Luncheon at The...

Kaufman double up in St. Louis

KXEN-AM is getting a little sister. The St. Louis station is owned by Burt Kaufman's and Dirk Hallemeier's Radio Property Ventures. It now has...

Clear Channel spins out of Ashtabula

Members of the Embrescia family are taking Clear Channel's five station cluster in unrated Ashtabula OH off its hands. The market is located in...

Mr. Gonzales, tear down this merger

The proposed merger of DARS companies XM and Sirius found another obscure source of support, from an organization called WIPP. You've heard of it?...

ESPN Radio’s Greenberg to milk a cow

ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike in the Morning co-host Mike Greenberg will pay up on a bet on 6/21 when the self-proclaimed metrosexual will...

Close encounter in Wheeling

Greg Guy of Patrick Communications has let us in on the fact that WRKP-FM is now officially in the hands of serial station buyer...

Legislators Wonder What makes XM/Sirius so Special

The proponents of the XM/Sirius merger found an expert to support the case for allowing the transaction to go through in the person of...

Copa America 2007 airs on Radio Caracol

Radio Caracol 1260 AM (WSUA Miami) will provide live coverage of Copa America 2007 soccer matches in Spanish, exclusively for South Florida.Radio Caracol 1260...

"Bravo Radio" to launch

NBCU's Bravo has unveiled "Bravo Media," a new global, multimedia content company that will expand its current television and digital content offerings under the...

KNOE-TV sold, KNOE-FM on the block

Noe Corp. has announced the sale of its CBS-8 KNOE-TV in Monroe LA. The buyer is Hoak Media Corporation, which will add it to...

Univision Radio’s Eddie ”Piolin” Sotelo delivers 1 million letters supporting immigration reform

Yesterday, Univision Radio personality Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo hand-delivered over one million letters signed by U.S. citizens and/or legal residents in support of the passage...

Moody’s downgrades Sirius debt

With Sirius Satellite Radio taking on 250 million in new debt, Moody's Investors Service has downgraded some of the company's existing debt. Moody's said...

Musicians looking for cash from radio

There's a new coalition on the block - the musicFIRST Coalition, and it's looking for cash. Comprised of performing and recording musicians, it wants...

Dial Global announces Cooper Lawrence News

Dial Global announced The Cooper Lawrence Show has joined the line-up at WFMP-FM (FM107.1) in Minneapolis-St. Paul.  The program was recently launched into national...

Deal erupts in Hawaii

KIPA-AM Hilo, KBGX-FM Keeau and KKOA-FM Volcano are going to a new owner. Tom Troland's Skynet Hawaii LLC is spinning the stations to George...