Radio Disney launches “N.B.T: Making it Big”
Radio Disney will launch a new multi-platform daily programming feature, “N.B.T.: Making It Big,” chronicling the rise of Allstar Weekend, the inaugural year “N.B.T.”...
AURN covers "Race in America"
American Urban Radio Networks (AURN) was the only national network to provide full coverage of "Race in America," a national conference on race in...
Vernon Baker dead at 87
Veteran broadcaster Vernon Baker, who built large chains of both commercial and Religious non-commercial radio stations, has died at age 87. According to attorney...
Two Anniversaries, With One More Meaningful Today
Twenty-four months and one day after MTV's debut on August 1, 1981, Scott Shannon signed WHTZ on the air from 333 Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus, N.J. Today, MTV is remembered for what it was. Shannon, and the station he built, are still going strong and very much part of today's consumer choices. As such, it isn't MTV's launch that should be celebrated.
KUHA Goes for $10M
The University of Houston System intends to sell KUHA(FM).
Radio price point is attractive for deep niche products
There are not a lot of people out there who are involved in deciding what kind of high-tech infrastructure will be used in a...
Revenues up 2% for Entercom in Q1
Entercom Communications reported that Q1 revenues rose 2% to $82.5 million. However, excluding political and having a hometown team for one cluster in the...
Entercom’s Solid Revitalization Move In Buffalo
Thanks to two FM translators, one AM radio station has enjoyed a renaissance that puts an exclamation point on the idea of "AM revitalization." Now, Entercom wants to replicate that success seen in Buffalo.
Boucher wants royalty negotiations
House Telecom Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-VA) used a DC gathering of broadcasters Tuesday to call for them to negotiate with RIAA on acceptable terms for performance royalty fees. NAB is having none of it.
A Salute To Alabama Broadcasters … and Larry Wilkins
Over the past 50 years and thousands of station visits, Ken Benner has encountered the best and worst among the broadcasting industry. Past columns were focused on the premise that the most professional individual at the top of this list is one willing to share unselfishly his talent and experience with his/her colleagues, he says. "I suspect I have found the individual at the top of this list."
Radio operators remain confident
Despite the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression, radio operators on the Dickstein Shapiro panel at the NAB Radio Show in Philadelphia expressed confidence that radio is still
WSJRN offering special report
In one wild week in September 2008, giants fell and venerable names disappeared as investors struggled with a market meltdown that resulted in America’s...
Christian Broadcasters ‘Crucial’ In Fight For AM Radio
As the 118th Congress enters its final months, the National Religious Broadcasters group is joining those in the industry urgently rallying for a Congressional mandate that keeps access to AM radio broadcasts in all new vehicles.
A 50-Year Career In Radio Ends April 29
The morning host of a Cumulus Media radio station, who joined the FM in 1974 under Capital Cities Communications ownership and has been there ever since its switch to Top 40 from Beautiful Music, has announced his retirement.
Emmis To Repurchase Up To 2 Million Shares
The company founded and led by Jeff Smulyan has earmarked as much as $5.2 million to invest in a long-awaited stock repurchase initiative — one that will take up to two million Class A Emmis Communications shares out of public hands.