Radio News

In 1996, he pocketed millions by selling a pioneering Smooth Jazz FM in "America's Finest City" to Jefferson-Pilot Communications. Now, he's being remembered for his time as a radio station owner, following his death on Friday at age 68. Bruce Walton's passing comes amid sale rumors at two other San Diego radio stations.

Until now, a Class C3 noncommercial FM scraping the southern edges of the Cincinnati metropolitan area has used its signal to provide Christian Contemporary Classic Hits. Now, a programming shift is likely. The facility has just been acquired by another non-secular broadcaster.

While this is a portfolio review and the company's credit ratings aren't impacted by the review, will investors react? On Monday, the answer was no. Perhaps the lousy assessment of Salem Media Group by Moody's Investors Service hadn't gotten to them yet.

Is it the cold and flu season? It appears so, given the bump in activity by one of the largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. It could have been seen at broadcast and/or cable television. Instead, Walgreens is using Radio.

Here's a news story that's guaranteed to get your attention. A large multimedia broadcasting company boasting a reach of 4.29 million, struggling of late with its television channels, has put them up for sale. This will allow the company to focus on its two other "very strong growth platforms" — OOH and Radio.

Once upon a time, retailers seeking to entertain shoppers and staffers offered audio entertainment by way of a radio, tuned to a specific over-the-air radio station. Today, that's a rarity. Yet, OOH audio has hardly faded, and Vibenomics sees a thirst for OOH audio options. Marketers are responding. Will Radio?

That's a question asked on Friday by Zacks Equity Research, which takes an up-close look at Entravision's operating cash flow in addition to the company's price-to-sales ratio. What did Zacks find? We took a look.

A station known for "Real News. Real Talk" and a slate of conservative-leaning syndicated talk radio hosts is being sold by an independent entity with a close relationship to Salem Media Group. The buyer? It's the MAGA Radio Network.

On Sept. 23, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out media ownership rules that had been approved by the FCC in 2017. Will that ruling impact the possibility of further radio deregulation? If so, how? A Forecast session moderated by RAB President/CEO Erica Farber tackles these questions.

One of the most beloved air personalities to ever work in the radio business has lost his battle with bladder cancer. National Radio Hall of Famer and Country Top 40 host Bob Kingsley passed away Thursday at the age of 80. RBR+TVBR spoke with Lon Helton, another country radio legend, about Kingsley's legacy.

In March 2018, The Mainstay Station Trust LLC came to fruition — created to take on four stations divested by Cumulus Media in order to complete its bankruptcy emergence plan. The Trust is headed solely by media broker Elliot Evers, and two of those four properties in the trust are being spun.

In the far north of Upstate New York lies a unique Class C AM radio station that offers a wide mix of obscure Oldies as Plattsburgh's "Hometown Radio" station. Will that eclectic blend of classic hits and vintage 1970s Top 40 jingles soon disappear? This heritage station is getting a new owner.

Just days after exiting the COO position at LBI Media, Winter Horton quickly resurfaced across town — as Chief Operations Officer of Meruelo Media. Now, LBI has a new CEO and COO, as it has successfully completed its court-approved reorganization plan and emerged from the chapter 11 process on Tuesday.

"It’s a reimagining of radio,” Entercom claims, "taking it out of the radio box and serving it up to listeners in a digital environment that we know they’ve grown to love." Radio.com is now offering something Entercom claims has never been done before in broadcast radio. Will consumers respond?

An attorney in Scottsdale, Ariz., who grew up in Michigan, had always wanted to own a radio station. In December 2018, he fulfilled his dream by grabbing an AM with an FM translator in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes region. Now, he's done it again.