Radio News

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings has given notice in an SEC filing that it is demanding repayment of a $30M note from iHeartCommunications, its parent company.

Prometheus Radio Project is locking horns with the FCC again. It’s taking the Commission to court over the deregulation of its broadcast media ownership rules and the loosening of other regulations. It is joined in the action by the Media Mobilizing Project.

As a variety of horrific disasters including hurricanes and wildfires demonstrated all too acutely throughout 2016, the importance of radio in providing life-saving information and communications cannot be denied or compromised. While the recent EAS false alarm that threw Hawaiian residents into a state of panic was just that — false — imagine a worst-case scenario, one in which the alarm signaled real danger. Is your station ready? Attendance at a just-added Hispanic Radio Conference session will ensure you are.

McLaughlin — who was to be honored with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s Golden Mike Award dinner, March 5, in New York City — was the man who launched Rush Limbaugh into syndication.

As we reported earlier, Cumulus has turned to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York for relief from “extremely unprofitable contracts” it holds in Chicago. Now we learn that iHeartMedia is seeking to cash in its marker with the troubled company.

BIA/Kelsey has released the numbers for radio and TV deals in 2017. It may not have been a banner year, but it was strong nonetheless. There are, however, indicators that may augur well for 2018.

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) has extended the call for entries for the 43rd annual Gracie Awards by a full week. This is being done in response to a high volume of requests for extensions, AWMF notes.

The first-of-its kind standard that outlines measurement and reporting requirements for digital audio advertising and content in either browser or App environments requiring a software-based audio player have been finalized. Here's what the MRC has codified.

With all of the excitement expressed by the radio industry over smart speakers, and how they have the potential to bring AM and FM radio back in to the home, few have discussed the flip side of the entry of Google Home and Amazon Echo devices. Could they actually cut, rather than add, to the time spent listening to radio? Business Insider says the answer could be "yes," and uses a recent study from NPR and Edison Research to back up its report—and perhaps throw a wrench into the radio industry's amour for Alexa. 

A radio industry veteran who has worked in the Hudson Valley of New York and Poconos of Pennsylvania will now be running a group of radio stations in the hub of the Hoosier State. It is a return to radio management for this individual, who has spent the last eight years as Region President for Adams+Fairway Outdoor Advertising.

In 1987, a production company devoted to Talk radio was established by a radio industry veteran with nearly 30 years of sales experience — including an eight-year tenure ending in 1972 as GSM for then-ABC's News/Talk KGO-AM 810 in San Francisco. This individual, Edward F. McLaughlin, in 1988 became the producer of The Rush Limbaugh Show. Today, he's credited with making Limbaugh a household name. Now, he's being honored for this and other career achievements by the Broadcasters Foundation of America. 

The individual who founded Birch Radio, sold to VNU and shut down in 1992, and is the present-day owner of a Raleigh-area radio station recently in the news for its fight over interference from an FM translator has become a media broker. 

If the latest inductee into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame's first words upon being bestowed the honor are Hello Lady!, don't be alarmed. It's one of his catch-phrases, and anyone who has listened to his nationally syndicated radio program will probably laugh with glee. Elvis Duran is getting the honor.

"There is only one problem with radio today. One. So, let’s solve it." What exactly is that problem? Media Information Bureau contributor Kelly Orchard, M.A. LMFT thinks she has the answer. It's all about people, as she writes in this exclusive column, "Trouble, Turmoil and Transition: Radio Needs An Attitude Adjustment NOW!" It's written by a second-generation broadcaster who nearly died of heart failure. It's a tale of how you, and others, can be prevented from succumbing to fear.

Some 3 1/2 years after Connoisseur Media acquired a group of radio stations in Connecticut from Buckley Radio, the company led by Jeff Warshaw and based in Westport, Conn., is selling them, along with an FM translator in New Haven. The sale price is roughly $75,000 more than what Connoisseur paid for these properties, plus another AM that could be sold in a separate deal soon. In an exclusive interview, Warshaw tells RBR+TVBR why the deal was done.