Radio News

With Paramount + not living up to its hype, some investors claim, companies with heavy investments in streaming could suffer from slower-than-anticipated growth. While that's a leap and based purely on speculation, some key radio station owners have been caught up in the sell-offs.

One of the nation's biggest radio broadcasting companies has agreed to a "long-term partnership" with Global Music Rights (GMR), the eight-year-old music license lion founded by Irving Azoff.

Eleven years and two months after its debut, a Class B1 FM with a signal stretching as far north as the Buffalo Bills' home stadium and into the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York is set to sign off the air. There's no buyer, or format change in the works. Rather, the station is going dark.

You've seen it. Your morning show hosts have likely discussed it.  That horribly embarrassing Zoom gone wrong has become the stuff of lore. How can you prevent a repeat of these Zoom fails? Veteran PR executive Rosemary Ravinal has some great advise to share on avoiding your next e-meeting from becoming the latest social media humor vehicle.

The regional office for iHeartMedia in northern Ohio is on the move. A 10-year lease agreement has been signed, and the company's nine Cleveland radio brands will soon enjoy a state-of-the-art street level facility also housing iHeartMedia's local sales, marketing, digital and Total Traffic operation.

"The Rush Limbaugh Show," starting today, is now heard on a Talk station in the biggest city in the U.S. by square miles. It was previously heard on a crosstown News/Talker that has prepared for life without Rush.

The gap between rival auto insurance specialists widened last week at Spot Radio, the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Radio report shows. In fact, the leader in the category -- the new leader for all of spot radio -- outpaced GEICO by more than 20,000 spot plays.

A 70-year old owner of a Pennsylvania radio station in November was placed on a three-year “restricted probation” for a series of criminal sexual acts at a sentencing hearing that could save him from a FCC license revocation hearing. This included wearing an electronic monitor for a four-month period. Now, he's back behind the mic in his longtime morning shift.

Roberts Radio Broadcasting is ready to demonstrate how a much-debated new technology the FCC could soon authorize for voluntary use by an FM radio station can aid a minority or women-owned station. A ZoneCasting demonstration is on track for "The Beat of the Capitol."

The nation's No. 1 audio media company, iHeartMedia, has made another notable move in the podcasting arena. Three new shows will shine a light on the “curious tales, historical oddities and stranger-than-fiction true stories that are often left out of history books.”

KHOL-FM, “Jackson Hole Community Radio,” is fiercely independent – and reliant on listeners and underwriters. It's a unique station in a unique market, but its success is one that any fan of live and local radio -- and its future -- is a story worth hearing. This new InFOCUS Podcast presented by DOT.FM shares that tale. LISTEN HERE

The Media Bureau has extended a temporary freeze, originally announced on March 20, 2020, on the acceptance of any AM minor change application that conflicts with the most recently licensed facilities of four now-deleted AM radio stations in the St. Louis market.

The U.K.-based media company that boasts such brands as Heart, Capital, Radio X, LBC, Gold and Classic FM wants a greater stake in iHeartMedia. And, its Washington-based counsel has written to the FCC to advance regulatory approval for the purchase.

One of the nation's biggest Spanish-language media companies has secured a long-term agreement for services from the nation's dominant source of radio industry ratings and audience listening estimates.

Paperwork filed Monday with the FCC confirms that VCY America, the buyer of the three Royce International FMs put into receivership by a California Federal District Judge, has assumed control of the stations. An LMA was executed Monday between VCY and the authorized seller of the FM stations — noted media broker Larry Patrick.