Monday, September 8, 2025

CBS Radio

WIP-A/FM signs Villnova

Villanova Athletics and IMG, the department’s University rights partner, announced a multi-year agreement with CBS Radio’s 610 WIP and 94.1 FM to have the...

Why he’s coming home

Bill 'Fig' Figenshu is a radio warrior and as many know by now has resigned his position as COO of Softwave Media Exchange (SWMX)...

Is Audacy’s Shareholder Ownership Skewed Toward Insiders?

That's a question financial blog Simply Wall St. is asking about the audio media company that's home to Cadence13, Pineapple Street and what had been the Radio.com app until its rebranding to Audacy. With the company's shares on the NYSE sputtering of late, it's an interesting look at "who really controls" the company formerly known as Entercom.
Deal

Unkefer Sells Michigan FM Translator

Will Tieman's WGHN intends to buy an FM translator from First Media Ventures.

ESPN Radio Boston may move to WEEI-AM spot; WAMG to go dark?

The Boston Globe reports ESPN Radio’s Boston affiliate, WAMG-AM 890, will go off the air today after four years plagued by a weak signal...
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A Florida CCM Player Expands Its Sunshine State Presence

The operator of a "positive & encouraging Christian radio" non-commercial Contemporary Christian Music network found in multiple Florida markets in mid-April agreed to buy an FM serving Daytona Beach south to the Space Coast. Now, it is buying properties in the Treasure Coast and in the state capital of Tallahassee.
Sold

Sale of 3-FM Arkansas Cluster Closes

High Plains Radio Network has closed on 3 FMs in Mountain Home, Ark.
ESPN Deportes Radio

ESPN Deportes 760 launches in West Palm Beach

Good Karma Broadcasting’s ESPN West Palm says ESPN Deportes 760 AM (WEFL-AM Tequesta, FL) is the market’s first Spanish language sports radio station. Fans...

WQAM welcomes Marc Hochman to afternoons

Beasley Broadcast Miami welcomes market vet Marc Hochman as the afternoon driver on Sports Radio 560 WQAM. “The Marc Hochman Show

Veteran Radio Programmer Larry Berger Dies

For a generation of New York radio listeners, Larry Berger served as the man behind the scenes of a radio station that, through two different eras, was a revered leader -- even when buffoonery from Scott Shannon at this station's crosstown rival came in to play. Berger died Sept. 25; word of Berger's death reached the radio industry late Thursday via the New York Radio Message Board.

Artists/labels: A marriage made in…

…well, it certainly doesn’t appear to be any place good. The Allman Brothers say that UMG Recordings is $10M in arrears of royalty payments...

Westwood One's The Billy Bush Show debuts today

Westwood One announced the “The Billy Bush Show” will debut on stations including MYfm 104.3 Los Angeles (KBIG-FM). The show will broadcast live from...

LPFMs win DC Circuit battle

The National Association of Broadcasters tried and failed to overturn FCC waivers of 2nd-adjacent channel spacing requirements that protected about 40 existing LPFM stations...