Radio News

With 109 radio stations across the nation of Canada and the power of iHeartRadio fueling such brands as Pure Country Radio, Virgin Radio and heritage Hot Adult Contemporary CHUM in Toronto, Bell Media has received lots of attention two years ago for its belt-tightening and growing brand homogenization. That helped parent company BCE grow its media operating revenue by 4.7% in Q4.

Today, naming rights for studios, traffic reports and other programming elements are commonplace for U.S. radio stations. Now, Max Media has taken naming rights one step further by rebranding an entire radio station based on a sponsor. 

In March 2021, Jinny Laderer, the co-founder and Chief Executive of vCreative, shifted to the role of President Emerita. Taking over as CEO: Susie Hedrick. Now, vCreative has revealed who will succeed Hedrick, who has accepted a leadership position at WideOrbit.

The parade of fourth quarter earnings report from publicly traded radio broadcasting companies is set to commence, and Beasley Broadcast Group has revealed when it will release its 2022 fourth quarter financial results.

The 8am Eastern "World News Roundup" usually heard by CBS News Radio affiliates didn't arrive as it normally would have on Monday. Stations were asked to cover the time usually allotted to the newscast with local content. What happened? A "technical issue" was impacting CBS News Radio's tech provider, Skyview Networks. ABC News Radio was also impacted, RBR+TVBR has learned.

While KPCC has been known for such programs as the Larry Mantle-hosted AirTalk, a fixture since April 1985, its LAist podcast and news feature service has exploded in stature since its relaunch under KPCC leadership five years ago. Now, Southern California Public Radio believes the LAist brand is so big, it should be applied to its broadcast operation.

Nielsen has agreed to market Edison Research’s "Share of Ear" and "Edison Podcast Metrics" services to advertising agencies — a move that bolsters the work Larry Rosin and his Edison Research team have done to grow the audio space "by providing information about the total audio audience to planners and buyers."

George Flinn Jr.'s radio properties until now have also included a Class A FM serving Nevada's second-largest market until recently as "Reno's Crazy 80's," through an arrangement with Lee Adams. Now, change is coming to this facility, as Flinn is selling it.

If one wanted to hear Jimmy Cefalo, Joe Rose or Kim Bokamper as their game-day voices of preference as the Miami Dolphins battled it out on the field, they'd have to tune to Audacy-owned WQAM or sibling WKIS-FM in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market. Now, after seven seasons, the Dolphins radio flagship is shifting back to iHeartMedia.

Edison Research has commissioned two U.S. podcast thought leadership studies to be presented in first quarter of 2023. The findings are designed to look at the listening habits of two distinct and important consumers groups when it comes to on-demand audio choices.

Edison Research has released a new report that spotlights the most-efficient podcasts for ad buyers across four domestic regions. The data was based on Edison's Effiency Ranker, which is meant to help ad buyers and sellers focus on the most-efficient podcasts to target key demos and reduce waste.

A town in Lowndes County, Ga., with less than 1,000 residents was poised to become the city of license for a new noncommercial FM radio station, a religious operation to be run by Elijah Radio. Now, however, the FCC has changed its mind, and is rescinding its decision to name Elijah its tentative selectee in NCE MX Group 59B.

At the 2022 NAB Show, he was a VIP guest everyone wanted to meet at a special reception hosted in part by the Radio + Television Business Report at the Bellagio. Just before COVID-19 arrived in North America, at the 2020 NATPE Miami affair, he was touted as the biggest star at the Fontainebleau, with radio and TV gigs fueling his popularity. Now, Nick Cannon's career is in transition, as his syndicated morning radio program is coming to a close.

As of February 1, iHeartMedia will have a new Metro President overseeing its six audio brands serving Atlanta.  He reports to Division President Kim Guthrie, and joins the market from iHeartMedia’s Texas region, where he’s served as the Area President since 2021. 

Midwest Communications has announced the successor to the late Duke Wright. Wright, the company's founder and President/CEO, died on December 21. Filling the role of President is an individual who first joined the company in 1985 by taking a sales position at WIXX in Green Bay, Wisc.