Radio News

An 11am Eastern earnings call was held on Thursday morning, with CEO Caroline Beasley and CFO Marie Tedesco discussing the results. Were the company's results in line with estimates provided by the two Wall Street analysts tracking Beasley?

Since 2014, she has held the role of VP/Market Manager for Cumulus Media's five radio stations serving Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Now, she's expanding her duties to become Regional VP/Market Manager, adding duties for the company's Scranton-Wilkes Barre stations to her oversight of the Allentown-Easton-Bethlehem market.

She's been associated with two FM radio stations serving Greenville-Spartanburg and nearby Anderson, S.C., for some 15 years. Now, this longtime sales leader has been named Market President for those properties and their two HD multicast offerings.

As of March 1, a pair venerable AMs serving Las Vegas, today owned by Audacy Corp., will go dark. Why? A valuable land sale that will result in the dismantling of their towers, with no new home, is the reason.

Audacy Corp. has teamed with Veritonic in conducting a study designed to how to make commercials "most effective," whether they be on broadcast or on-demand channels. What was the study's biggest finding? There are four key features maximize intent to purchase, recall, and brand favorability.

In August 2021, Family Life Ministries executed a sale agreement with Montrose Broadcasting Corp. that saw the latter entity pay $50,000 for what is today WPGO-AM 820 in Horseheads, N.Y. Now, Montrose is picking up an FM signal to go along with formidable AM serving the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania.

Leading up to the "Big Game," one big online wagering platform, today the owner of VSiN, opted to ramp up its spot radio activity in the hopes that those wishing to bet on the game would use its app, rather than any other choice. Don't tell that to one New York Congressman that wants to ban such advertising activity.

While simulcasts of full-power AM News/Talk stations on full-power FM stations are commonplace in the U.S., it's not in Canada. And, the nation's equivalent of the FCC hasn't taken too kindly to the plan from owner Corus Entertainment to abandon Q107 in favor of a "QR" simulcast in Calgary.

In early June, "the meeting point for Radio, Podcast and Audio" will be a two-day affair tied to the Canadian Music Week (CMW) Music Week three-day summit — an event that will see representatives from the CBC joined by Corus, iHeartMedia partner Bell Media, Rogers Sports & Media, Stingray and tastemaker CIND "Indie 88" at the Westin Harbour Castle in downtown Toronto. But, will U.S. radio leaders be keeping an eye on Radiodays North America?

It is a Class B AM serving Mississippi's state capital with Premiere Networks' signature daytime talk programs and FOX Sports Radio. Soon, this iHeartMedia property will gain an FM translator, giving it a bit of "revitalization." It's thanks to a deal involving the owner of the market's purveyor of "Stimulating Talk."

The Black Podcast Listener Report 2.0, conducted by Edison Research in partnership with  SXM Media and Mindshare, will be presented during a webinar Wednesday, February 22.

From mid-September through the end of November 2022, more than 2,800 spots were broadcast across 21 radio stations in the New York Tri-State Area with one chief purpose: to raise the attention of ad agencies and ad executives and to tempt them to buy Radio. How powerful was the effort? The New York City Radio Committee is calling it a success.

The FM Table of Allotments has been updated by the FCC, with Audio Division Assistant Chief Nazifa Sawez adding no less than 17 vacancies to the official list.

On November 10, 2022, RBR+TVBR confirmed the sale of an Adult Alternative FM owned by Steve Kingston, the longtime radio industry figure. He'd struck a deal to sell WRNR-FM 103.1 in Annapolis, Md., to the owner of a Christian-themed broadcasting network dedicated to “sharing God’s love in the Baltimore and Washington area.” They'll officially assume control of the station at 12:01am Saturday.

On March 15, 2022, the operator of a Christian Hard Rock radio operation asked the FCC for a power increase, a tower site move, and a change of its community of license to Palmetto Bay, Fla. — a bedroom community of Miami. A first-adjacent Jazz-formatted noncomm's licensee protested, but their argument was rejected.