GLR launches “40 Principales”
GLR Networks announced the launch of 40 Principales on 3/1, a two hour Contemporary and Pop music hit countdown weekend show. The show host...
JMA adds new format
Jones MediaAmerica has introduced “Jones Variety Hits” to their 24-hour, satellite-delivered formats that will provide day and daypartable in-program inventory to national advertisers. The...
Fox News scores a first in Internet transmission during Bush visit
Fox News Radio fed the press pool this time down in Africa for President Bush’s visit this week. But in Tanzania, there are no...
Radio is down in the month
The good news is that it will be easy to score a better revenue performance than radio scored during the month of January 2008...
DC drops the HD ball….again
Well, we’ve complained about this before, and we’ll keep doing it: How are folks going to “get into” HD Radio multicasts when they are...
Steve & Vikki return to Atlanta’s B98.5FM
Atlanta’s Steve McCoy and Vikki Locke – will return as morning hosts on B98.5FM’s 5:00 – 10:00 a.m. timeslot. After nearly an eight month...
Dial Global Digital 24/7 gets JACK-FM from ABC
Dial Global announced an exclusive arrangement with Canada-based SparkNet Communications to begin offering the JACK-FM format to stations in the US beginning 3/31. All...
XM/Sirius pact is a year old
And it's still trapped in the bowels of the FCC and the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, The NAB and its retained research firm Carmel...
CBS Radio Detroit MM re-assigned to Riverside/San Bernardino
CBS Radio confirms its Detroit market manager Kevin Murphy is being re-assigned to the station cluster in Riverside/San Bernardino/Ontario, CA. After spending three years...
Radio prospects on the up and up
Finally, a ray of sunshine from revenue prognosticators, who say things look like they will finally begin picking up for the beleaguered radio industry....
Jess Cain dead at 81
Jess Cain, who retired from WHDH-AM Boston in 1991 after hosting the morning show for 33 years, has died after a long battle with...
Analysts encouraged by CCU radio
Yes, revenues fell again in Q4 at Clear Channel Radio, but didn’t fall as much as Wall Street analysts had expected. With Clear Channel...
ESPN Radio to debut three new shows
ESPN Radio will unveil three new programs when Erik Kuselias returns behind the microphone full-time on Saturday mornings, Jamal Mashburn makes his NBA points...
WFAN names Wayne Hagin to Mets on-air team
Sports Radio 66 WFAN NY, flagship for New York Mets baseball, has named play-by-play vet Wayne Hagin to the 2008 Mets radio broadcast team,...
Less is: a) More; b) simply less
With Q4 radio revenues down from a year earlier at Clear Channel, it is obvious that they were once again down from the final...