Changes working at CBS Radio
Despite a slight year-over-year decline in ratings, Wachovia analyst Marci Ryvicker notes that CBS Radio was up in the Spring Arbitron ratings from the...
In praise of Houston PPM coverage last week – Bob Neil, Cox Radio CEO
Thanks for spending the time this week getting to understand some of these PPM issues. I think I said before, I know we as...
Conservative pundits take down XM/Sirius
J. Gregory Sidal and Hal J. Singer, writing in the conservative Washington Times, get right into the meat of the matter when discussing the...
Bonneville-Washington Post Radio in DC may be gone by Labor Day
That's what multiple DC area media outlets are forecasting. The year-and-a-half all-news partnership with the paper may be gone, or at least changed to...
Last Bastion flips a Citadel orphan
Eliott Evers of brokerage Media Venture Partners is the headmaster of an orphanage comprised of over-the-local-limit Citadel Broadcasting radio stations which lost their grandfather...
EMF lands in the TX panhandle
The bottom of the panhandle, mind you, but that is the location of the latest acquisition for voracious Educational Media Foundation. It is getting...
Radio up across the pond
Word from The RadioCentre in London, and its division known locally as the Radio Advertising Bureau not only had a positive second quarter, they...
Sally ditches the ABC satellite
From Mark Heller at WGBW Radio in Two Rivers, WI: "Sally Jessy Raphael is stopping her distribution via ABC Satellite on Friday, and we...
Phil Hendrie adds DC, BC
TRN-FM's The Phil Hendrie Show will soon be heard in the Nations Capital on Washington Post Radio, both Bonneville's WTWP FM 107.7 and its...
Getting a new read on Reed
Media Services Group broker George Reed has found a new way to get his name into the transactional sections of the trade press. Instead...
Freedom Watch links big buy to Iraq report
A major advertising campaign is slated for a five week run with the goal of solidifying support for President George W. Bush's Iraq policies....
Big streamsers deal, small steamers do not
Large audio streamers are said to have come to an agreement with SoundExchange which would affect their operations through 2010. According to Billboard, in...
Arbitron re-releases Houston PPM carry rate data; notes from the PPM fly-in
After a major PPM carry rate data error being caught earlier this week (8/22/07 RBR #164), Arbitron reissued PPM Houston August Week 1 (7/26-8/1)...
HD Radio rules take effect by Peter Gutmann
The FCC's HD radio rules are to take effect September 14, 2007. Subject to thelimitations noted below, AM stations will be able to broadcast...
Radio One spins out of Augusta
Another chapter is in the book of the ongoing liquidation project in progress at Radio One. It's recently spun out of Dayton OH, Louisville...