Radio News

The Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group has selected the four mentees that will participate in its 2018 Mildred Carter Mentoring Program. Now in its 17th year, the MIW Group’s signature mentoring program matches up-and-coming women in the radio industry with female professionals recognized as leaders in all aspects of Radio.

An auction of cross-service FM translator construction permits is scheduled for May 15 and to help aid participants, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and the Media Bureau on Friday formally established the procedures, terms and conditions, together with the minimum opening bid amounts, for the upcoming event.

Beasley Media Group has entered into a Consent Decree with the FCC's Media Bureau that settles concerns tied to the company's formerly owned radio stations in Miami and Philadelphia. To resolve the matter, Beasley is handing thousands of dollars to the U.S. Treasury.

A Texas Radio Hall of Fame inductee known for bringing KHFI-FM's long-running Top 40 format to life in Austin and for running one of America's legendary R&B stations in Houston has died. Dick Oppenheimer, who owned nine radio stations across three states in the mid-1980s and more recently headed the Austin-based REO Radio Group, died suddenly on Wednesday (3/21). His funeral is planned for Friday (3/23), son Michael Oppenheimer, Local Area Director for Comcast Spotlight in Washington, D.C., tells RBR+TVBR.

On Sept. 22, 2017, the FCC deleted two agenda items from its September Open Meeting, giving unanimous consent and negating the need for discussion and debate. One of these agenda items was a report and order that would have relaxed or eliminated certain rules tied to “revitalization of the AM radio service.” This R&O relaxes or eliminates “certain rules pertaining to AM broadcasters employing and maintaining directional antenna arrays,” and it has just become effective.

There's a famous bridge spanning the Delaware River in central New Jersey with a slogan designed to cement what the Garden State's capital represents to the world: "Trenton Makes The World Takes." Today, Townsquare Media is taking a heritage CHR/Pop station that covers a big portion the Philadelphia DMA and two AMs based in Trenton. The seller is Jeffrey Warshaw's Connoisseur Media.

"Petition denied." That's the short and to-the-point message sent Wednesday to Ed Stolz and his Royce International Broadcasting Co. by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in response to a rehearing en banc of his long-standing case against Entercom Communications pertaining to the sale of the former KWOD-FM 106.5 in Sacramento.

The East End of Long Island is known by many as a weekend and summer playground for affluent New Yorkers who enjoy such locales as Montauk and The Hamptons. But, did you know that Suffolk County, N.Y., is also a hotbed of Hispanic market growth? In this latest Hispanic Radio Podcast, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson learns from Ana Maria Caraballo, Promotions Director for JVC Broadcasting, how her company jumped in to serve an important segment of the population with no local voice.

"Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own."  One Forbes contributor, former Media Life editor Gene Ely, just penned a guest commentary with the provocative headline "In The IHeartMedia Bankruptcy, Expect A Major Selloff Of Radio Stations." Really? We asked top D.C. attorneys and one broker for their opinions. Here's what they say.

It's not the best time to be a long-time holder of Salem Media Group stock. The conservative and Christian-theme media company finished Tuesday's trading at an all-time low.

If there's one market in the U.S. where Polish-language programming can be competitive, it's Chicago. One of the choices in this metropolis, offering a mix of comedy bits, Polish pop, Euro Top 40, and EDM tunes at night is "Polski FM." It operates on two suburban signals -- at least for now. One of these signals has just been sold in a deal brokered by Bob Heymann of Media Services Group.

Here's an eye-popping teaser from Jack Myers TomorrowToday that's bound to immediately attract the interest of every radio industry C-Suiter: Total U.S. audio ad spend has recovered from the 14% decline that occurred between 2000 and 2010. Don't pop your champagne bottles yet, radio station owners. This is driven by that little devil called "digital."

Entravision Communications has emerged as a formidable Hispanic digital media company, given the revenue growth seen in this arm of the company in recent quarters. But, the struggles at its radio and TV divisions, which still represent the core of Entravision's business, could be worrying investors. At the Closing Bell on Wall Street on Monday, EVC shares were off by more than 10%.

To the west of the Wisconsin cities of Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, adjacent to Ripon, is the town of Berlin. It's the city of license for a Class A branded as "The Valley's #1 Hit Music Station!" — and it is ready to become the newest member of the Woodward Communications family.

The nation's satellite radio provider has extended its relationship with the Korean automaker for five more years. This means those buying a Hyundai or Genesis will continue to get a three-month introductory SiriusXM All Access subscription, which includes access to the SiriusXM mobile app.