Campaigning on radio
Question: If you're running for office, should you use radio advertising to preach to the choir or should you try to convert nonbelievers to...
EBay in deal with Bid4Spots
The world says radio is a dying medium, but it seems everyone wants to get into selling radio spots. Go figure. The Wall Street...
Detroit loses two veterans
Two long-time Detroit radio personalities have died in recent days. Paul Christy (Christides) died of complications from Parkinson's disease at age 69. His resume...
Moving, if not spreading, the Gospel
Archway Broadcasting Group's WLGT-FM Washington NC is being sold. The Gospel station is headed for Ronald Benfield's Media East LLC. According to Snowden Associates...
TRN adds Hendrie, "The National Defense Radio Show
Hendrie's back on the radio-Talk Radio Network-FM announced the addition of The Phil Hendrie Show, premiering 6/25. The overnight show is scheduled to be...
Salvation Army honors Dick Purtan
The National Salvation Army has honored Detroit Radio Personality Dick Purtan, host of Oldies 104.3 WOMC's morning show, Dick Purtan and Purtan's People, with...
Price revealed
Peter Davidson's foray into major market territory will take a new subsidiary of his Davidson Media Group called Blackstrap Broadcasting LLC into east coast...
Counting down the days
There'll be no horse-drawn coach like that available for fairy-tale weddings at Disney World, but ABC Radio will be the 2.5 billion bucks bride...
Radio Mindanao first in Philippines With HD Radio multicasting
Radio Mindanao Network has announced the commencement of HD Radio Multicast broadcasting in the Philippines, using a Nautel HD Radio FM transmitter. Station iFM...
Roswell combo headed to Noalmark
William C. Nolan's Noalmark Broadcasting Corporation seems to be on a bit of a spending spree. It just invested 600K in a trio of...
Kicking grandpa out of the house
We can now identify to fallout from the 452.1M Clear Channel/GoodRadio.TV multimarket radio group deal. The change in ownership wiped out Clear Channel's grandfather...
Analyst negative on Emmis privatization
Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller says the timing is not right for CEO Jeff Smulyan to try again to take Emmis Communications private. Therefore,...
One for one: RAB pegs Q1 radio revenue 1% black
Another way of stating it is one for one despite one: Local revenue was the driver of the overall 1% gain to 4.728B in...
Beasley adds Mancow to WWDB-AM
A clarification from yesterday: Talk Radio Network-FM's Erich "Mancow" Muller has added another station, WWDB-AM Philadelphia (not FM), to his affiliate list. WWDB is...
Terra Firma bid on firm grounds
The UK private equity firm Terra Firma closed on its latest fund, raising 3.7 million British pounds, some of which will be used to...