Joyner grabs Illinois cluster
Archway Broadcasting Group has found a buyer for another cluster. Veteran broadcast group owner Tom Joyner, based in North Carolina, is buying Archway's five-station...
McGavren-Guild signs WKLU-FM in Indianapolis
Interep announced today its McGavren-Guild Radio Sales has signed an agreement to provide national sales representation to WKLU-FM, a classic hits station in Indianapolis....
CC Radio EAR Awards announce finalists
Clear Channel Radio announced the 42 finalists for the 2007 Excellence in Advertising on Radio (EAR) Awards. Nearly 1,000 entries were received for this...
Sportscaster dies on the job
Colleagues at Genesis Communications are mourning the sudden death of Keith Lippert, who was stricken Friday night as he prepared to do play-by-play of...
Radio One signs for PPM
Radio One had been encoding for PPM in Houston and Philadelphia, but not buying the data. Now, with PPM on the horizon for Los...
Amphibious Religious companies in station buys
The Eastern seaboard Baker family and the Midwestern Botts family have something in common. They run radio stations, and make frequent use of Religious...
Spanish radio visionary killed
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Susan Ali Shepherd, age 53, was killed Friday night when a car struck her as she crossed a...
Latest name format: Tom
Having just closed on the former Clear Channel cluster in Charlottesville, VA, Monticello Media has flipped the 107.5 mHz signal to new calls, WWTJ,...
Shedding light on GAP
The GAP company that just bought Clear Channel stations in the west is not the same as the GAP company operated by George Laughlin...
PPM: what should the guarantee be?
Arbitron has now instituted its guarantee for Portable People Meter in-tab delivery, promising refunds to stations if it fails to hit the target for...
Stephens family strikes again
Before the virtual ink even had a chance to dry on reports of KXOJ Inc.'s move to the northeast from its Oklahoma base, they...
Radiohead freebie spells more trouble for labels
Alternative act Radiohead has been making headlines with its plan to offer its latest collection of tunes as a download from its website. The...
Radio Caracol 1260 AM Launches "La Mañana"
Radio Caracol announced the launch of "La Mañana," a daily morning drive show which includes local news, culture and humor, hosted by the dynamic...
Emmis sells RadioNow to Radio One
Two days after Emmis announced it was pulling the plug on WNOU-FM (93.1) because to make it News-Talk WIBC-FM, it is selling the station...
Another GAP filled in CCU spin-off derby
George Laughlin's GAP Broadcasting is branching out from its mid-country roots, moving into a western deal with Clear Channel that was abandoned Christopher F....