Get a Chrysler, get Sirius
Chrysler Group expects to install Sirius Satellite Radio in more than 70% of its vehicle production for the 2008 model year, up from approximately...
Four FMs in Apex Charleston cluster
The triple-play swap-CP deal put together by Apex Broadcasting will leave it with four FMs and an AM in the Charleston SC market, not...
One Nebraska AM will form three combos
When KNZA Inc. closes on its acquisition of KTNC-AM in Falls City NE, it will have created three separate AM-FM combos. The group, which...
WaPo Radio experiment nearing a plug pull?
The joint effort to run an in-depth news radio station struck in Washington between the Washington Post and Bonneville International appears to be on...
Apex engineers a deal on the SC coast
Engineering is precisely the word for this triple play. Apex Broadcasting, headed by Dean Pearce, is going to move WAVF-FM Hanahan SC to Forestbrook...
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Emmis' WQHT-FM "Hot 97 FM" NYC is laying claim to being the first radio station in America to offer their listeners the chance to...
NYC winners and losers
Arbitron's Spring ratings in New York are good news for CBS and Univision. Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller calculates that 12+ ratings for the...
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...