Radio News

As public radio begins its new life without federal support through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR executives are adjusting the organization’s budget with Member stations in mind. The NPR board recently met and prepared a balanced budget for the fiscal year that begins October 1, and two big moves are in the works.

A Class C3 FM serving the Hot Springs, Ark., area to the west of Little Rock, is seeing a change in control, one that sees a husband-and-wife duo cede control of the facility to one Alice Bates following the wife's death in April.

Skyview Networks, the national radio enterprise led by President/CEO Steve Jones, has promoted from within to fill two newly created roles that reflect "the evolving structure" of its sales organization.

Tood Noordyk and his Great Lakes Media has agreed to hand an AM radio station in a small city east of Marquette, Mich., with the all-important "AM revitalization" perk at 97.7 MHz to an entity that happens to be the second-largest licensee of radio stations in the U.S. 

On January 16, 2024, the owner of an AM radio station serving Volusia County, Fla., died. Now, paperwork has been submitted with the FCC shifting the station licensed to New Smyrna Beach to the woman who hosts the station's morning show and is a key figure behind the scenes, too.

One of Australia’s leading audio content creation and distribution companies that's the parent of the Hit and Triple M radio networks has secured an exclusive sales representation and distribution agreement with Audacy.

The radio stations owned by the nation's largest purveyor of audio content in areas of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin have a new Area President, and he reports to Division President Shosh Abromovich.

Much of the programming heard on Bell Media's radio properties is thanks to a partnership forged with the No. 1 audio content creator and distributor in the U.S. That arrangement will continue, thanks to a newly signed agreement with iHeartMedia.

Audacy is scaling back its presence in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., which had more than 300 employees taking up some 67,000 square feet in the weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the in-office business environment across the globe.

It was a transaction that was quietly submitted for FCC regulatory approval ahead of the Labor Day holiday. Now, iHeartMedia is awaiting the OK for it to convert a lease arrangement for a 250-watt FM translator serving the capital of the Lone Star State to a wholly owned asset.

The broadcast media company that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk worked for has responded to the conservative political figure's assassination on Wednesday at a public appearance held on the campus of Utah Valley University. So has the AM radio station owned by John Catsimaditis. 

On March 5, 2020, the owner of an FM translator serving the Crescent City filed its license renewal application with the FCC. However, something was amiss. Now, some 5 1/2 years later, the facility is getting a fresh license. To make it happen, the Commission and the station owner are entering into a Consent Decree.

A Class A FM and its Class C AM serving the city of Brattleboro, Vt., have found themselves a new owner, pending regulatory approval of a deal that by its very name assures they stay locally operated. Who's the buyer? Someone once associated with New England talk personality Howie Carr and with WFEA Radio.

He has served as Director of Sales for Audacy‘s Denver radio stations; VP/Sales for “Power 105.1” and the BIN: Black Information Network AM in New York for iHeartMedia; and Director of Sales at the stations presently licensed to MediaCo, formerly Emmis properties. Now, this sales leader is returning to Emmis.

For the third time in nine years, the Tom Birch-led Lakes Media is confronted with what it believes is "illegal translator interference." And, he's pointing fingers at Raleigh media icon Don Curtis for an "open violation" of the FCC's testing rules.