Hill posse backs FM translators for AMs
One of the proposals that has been floating around the regulatory byways in Washington has been the notion of allowing AM daytimer stations to...
Burken Broadcasting doubles down in Vegas
Stephen Burr and Bryan Kent Hawkins are replacing John Douglas as buyer of one AM in Las Vegas, and buying a second AM from...
Is monopoly best served whole or a la carte?
Satellite audio services XM and Sirius floated the notion of offering a la carte channel services to kick off a new week of media...
Who else will go private?
Calling this the "Year of the buyout," Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller sees Radio One and Cox Radio as likely candidates to join Clear...
Cumulus Media agrees to buyout
Shareholders stand to get a 40.4% premium over Friday's closing price in the 1.3 billion bucks buyout announced before the market opened yesterday, with...
Arrest in Mike Webb murder
Police in Seattle have made an arrest in the murder of radio talk host Mike Webb, whose body was found last month (7/2/07 RBR...
Second AM for Big Easy operators
MCDJ LLC, an ownership group including W. Christopher Beary, Mary Latter, Joseph A. Kunstler and David Rubin, is reaching into the northern fringes of...
Investor ups pressure on Regent
Riley Investment Management isn't backing down from its efforts to force a sale of the assets of Regent Communications (4/5/07 RBR #67). In its...
Action still in small markets
Look for June revenues to be down 2% when RAB issues its monthly report, says CL King analyst Jim Boyle. But he notes continued...
Clear Channel says Indy problem was misunderstanding
The four radio companies caught up in the infamous New York payola dragnet agreed to provide 4.2K hours of airtime for musical acts signed...
K-Fed the DJ?
US magazine reports that would-be rap star and former Britney Spears hubby Kevin Federline is now eying a career in radio. He's said to...
Radio One, Bonneville file DC deal
Praise 104.1, the suburban Washington FM being run by Radio One, is now officially headed to the locally-based group. An LMA with Bonneville for...
NAB wants to free the XM/Sirius info
The National Association of Broadcasters has taken note of admissions of wrong-doing from XM Radio Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., and wants more...
Arbitron charts growth course
With Portable People Meter (PPM) contracts in hand from his largest customers, Clear Channel and CBS Radio, as well as several other major radio...
KCRW wants to save music library
The music library in the basement of KCRW-FM LA houses a priceless collection of more than 60,000 recordings of great historical importance and cultural...