Tuesday, September 17, 2024

TRN adds Hendrie, "The National Defense Radio Show

Hendrie's back on the radio-Talk Radio Network-FM announced the addition of The Phil Hendrie Show, premiering 6/25. The overnight show is scheduled to be...

Salvation Army honors Dick Purtan

The National Salvation Army has honored Detroit Radio Personality Dick Purtan, host of  Oldies 104.3 WOMC's morning show, Dick Purtan and Purtan's People, with...

Price revealed

Peter Davidson's foray into major market territory will take a new subsidiary of his Davidson Media Group called Blackstrap Broadcasting LLC into east coast...

Counting down the days

There'll be no horse-drawn coach like that available for fairy-tale weddings at Disney World, but ABC Radio will be the 2.5 billion bucks bride...

Radio Mindanao first in Philippines With HD Radio multicasting

Radio Mindanao Network has announced the commencement of HD Radio Multicast broadcasting in the Philippines, using a Nautel HD Radio FM transmitter.  Station iFM...

Roswell combo headed to Noalmark

William C. Nolan's Noalmark Broadcasting Corporation seems to be on a bit of a spending spree. It just invested 600K in a trio of...

Kicking grandpa out of the house

We can now identify to fallout from the 452.1M Clear Channel/GoodRadio.TV multimarket radio group deal. The change in ownership wiped out Clear Channel's grandfather...

Analyst negative on Emmis privatization

Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller says the timing is not right for CEO Jeff Smulyan to try again to take Emmis Communications private. Therefore,...

One for one: RAB pegs Q1 radio revenue 1% black

Another way of stating it is one for one despite one: Local revenue was the driver of the overall 1% gain to 4.728B in...

Beasley adds Mancow to WWDB-AM

A clarification from yesterday: Talk Radio Network-FM's Erich "Mancow" Muller has added another station, WWDB-AM Philadelphia (not FM), to his affiliate list.  WWDB is...

Terra Firma bid on firm grounds

The UK private equity firm Terra Firma closed on its latest fund, raising 3.7 million British pounds, some of which will be used to...

Antitrust lawyers assail XM/Sirius

Crowell & Moring was retained by the National Association of Broadcasters to look at the proposed merger of DARS competitors XM and Sirius satellite...

Alan Berg’s murder mastermind dies in prison

White supremacist David Lane, convicted of masterminding the murder of KOA-AM Denver talk host Alan Berg in 1984, has died in a federal prison...

Beasley adds Mancow to Philadelphia

Talk Radio Network-FM's Erich "Mancow" Muller had added another station, WWDB-FM Philadelphia, to his affiliate list.  Bruce Gilbert, General Sales Manager of WWDB says,...

TripleX ESPN Radio in DC adds Hokies

Red Zebra Broadcasting, ISP Sports and the Virginia Tech Athletics Department announced Triple X ESPN Radio has joined the Virginia Tech ISP Sports Network....