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A Class A FM offering Country music as "Froggy" to a big college town, and its Top 40-formatted Class A FM sibling focused on Clarksburg and Fairmont, W. Va., are being sold. The buyer? It's the broadcast station ownership group led by James Kail.

Winners at the 2023 Radio Mercury Awards were announced Thursday at the 32nd annual awards presentation held at SONY Hall in New York as well as online. This year’s Best of Show award was presented to FCB Chicago for their "Glad Strength: App" radio commercial for The Clorox Company and Glad Products.

It carries a construction permit for a full signal blanketing Colorado Springs from a transmitter close to Pikes Peak and the famed Garden of the Gods. Until now, it has been owned by Vic Michael. With the FCC's OK, it will soon be in the hands of a new owner.

By Saturday morning, this grandfathered 110,000-watt FM will be bringing the Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) noncomm KLOVE network to Western New York ... and Canada's biggest population center. That's because Audacy Inc.'s sale of WTSS-FM is about to close, and the sign-off of "Star 102.5" is on schedule for Friday.

How rough is it for individuals committed to providing that vital news and information to consumers of many AM radio stations, and FM stations that largely comprise NPR Member stations? The RTDNA finds that while salaries rose 4.5% in 2022, inflation made it another down year in real dollars.

The Radio Mercury Awards recognize the best in radio advertising and they'll be awarded at SONY Hall in Manhattan. The awards will be livestreamed, while prolific radio industry advertising champion Procter & Gamble Co. will be honored as "Radio Marketer of the Year."

He was fired at the height of the George Floyd murder unrest, in June 2020, after he tweeted "All Lives Matter" and bringing unwanted attention to both himself and to its KHTK-AM in Sacramento. In response, Grant Napear in October 2021 filed a wrongful termination suit, which a federal judge tossed in April 2023. Now, he's amended the suit, and KHTK owner Bonneville wants it squashed.

“In many parts of my district, FM radio is spotty and there is no access to broadband, so AM radio is the only option.” That’s a statement delivered by the influential Chairwoman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee during her opening statement at Tuesday’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing focused on the future of AM on the road.

"We can protect Americans like we always have," the President of Woof Boom Radio told Members of the Congressional Subcommittee on Communications and Technology at a June 6 hearing on AM radio's importance. We've offered a synopsis in this InFOCUS Podcast.  LISTEN HERE

In March, a Class A FM owner petitioned the FCC for the right to move its facility to another frequency. Why? It’s tied to an upgrade it wants for a station some 60 miles to its north, just to the north of a town within the Las Vegas DMA. With no counterproposals or other comments filed in response to a NPRM on the matter, Audio Division Assistant Chief Nazifa Sawez granted Shamrock Communications' wish.

In late May, Radio-focused mobile strategy and development firm jācapps, born by longtime Detroit-based broadcasting consultant Fred Jacobs, announced it is moving “to make sure AM stations can easily get their streams on smartphones, tablets, and into cars.” Now, the CEO of global streaming audio platform TuneIn is singing a similar tune

A host of radio stations, including Boom 97.3 and 93.5 Today Radio in Canada's largest market, have joined the app that is home to Bell Media's radio properties and administered by iHeartRadio Canada.

High-performing sales teams don’t come together by chance. You need to offer a competitive compensation package to attract and retain top talent. That’s why this year's Hispanic Radio Conference has assembled an all-star panel to tell you how achieve elite production.

After a week-long absence following some concerning tweets describing self-harm, Fred Toucher returned to the air in Boston on Friday. The co-host of Toucher and Rich had been absent from the station since Memorial Day weekend.

While more technological trade groups are coming out in opposition to the AM For Every Vehicle Act, which would mandate AM radio in all future cars, former FEMA administrator Michael Brown penned a passionate letter in support of the act.