Radio News

Now is probably not the time for Cumulus Media to be handing over $20,000 to the FCC. However, that's likely set to happen -- pending a successful appeal or reduction of the penalty -- thanks to the Media Bureau's issuance late Monday of a Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL) for what it calls willful and repeated EEO violations. The violations were discovered through a random spring 2011 Media Bureau audit of its EEO program.

The owner of a pair of 5kw AM radio stations based in Honolulu has received a Notice of Violation from the Commission for failing to follow its rules regarding antenna structures. The broadcast company should know better. The Commission sent a nearly identical notice to this radio station owner in March 2014.

The consents are needed to "align certain definitions in the indenture with the corresponding definitions in CBS Radio's credit facility." No problem: CBS Radio received the requisite consents; the consent solicitation expired at 5pm Eastern on Friday.

The individual responsible for creating one of New England's biggest Top 40 radio stations of its era has died just shy of his 92nd birthday. Perry Ury, who spent many years at RKO General before enjoying a 19-year tenure as Chairman and President of the former Chase Broadcasting, passed away Friday at his home in Sarasota, Fla.

There's some good news amid some recent disappointing news for holders of Salem Media Group stock. The conservative Christian-themed media company based in Ventura County, Calif., saw its Board of Directors on Thursday declare a cash distribution for Q4. This comes despite a disappointing Q3 that has sent Salem shares back toward a five-year low.

There's an AM/FM combo in West Central Iowa that has been singled out for its success, in many ways, by Media Information Bureau columnist Ken Benner. These stations have not only achieved perfect scores in alternative broadcast inspection program (ABIP) inspections, but are also fiscally fit and community leaders. Benner recently asked the stations' owner, Mike Dudding, what his secret of his success has been. Here's what Dudding had to say.

Saga Communications' Board of Directors is giving shareholders a little extra cash come January 2018. The radio broadcasting company on Thursday declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 per share, and a special cash dividend of $0.80 per share, for its Class A and Class B shares.

There are new SVP/Market Managers now in place at two Entercom markets in the Southeast U.S. In Orlando, the ex-VP/Director of Sales for CBS Radio takes the role. In a Tennessee market, the role is given to the former GSM of Cox Media Group's Jacksonville cluster.

"Hey, can I see you for a minute?" It's the one question many broadcast media professionals don't want to hear and tremble with fear when summoned to the boss' office -- in particular, right before the holiday party they won't be attending. Pink slips, rather than holiday bonuses, are a business reality. RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson has experienced it, too. But, he says, this is also the perfect time to hunt for work. Here's how his ingenuity led him to a career covering radio, and a career not covering radio, for a decade.

A Dec. 1 announcement that was widely ignored by the broadcast media trade press caught the attention of RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson. Why? Because this news, from Sirius XM, deals with something radio stations across the U.S. should have been doing for the last 25 years. It's another reason why broadcast radio still has a long way to go to be as local as industry leaders proclaim it to be.

There's a whole lot of movement going on in the Seattle-Tacoma area, but we're not talking about earthquakes. With format changes impacting country music fans and iHeartMedia grabbing two FMs and an AM, the hub of the Pacific Northwest has witnessed a lot of shake up at its AMs and FMs. Now, country music fans in the northern portion of the metro area are set to lose a "Q." Thank Amador Bustos for that forthcoming change.

DuCoty will retire from his role as Chief Operating Officer of radio broadcast company NRG Media after the first of the year. But, he won’t disappear entirely at NRG.

A Class C0 facility serving the St. George, Utah area and nearby Zion National Park has officially changed hands. Kalil & Co. Inc. was the exclusive broker for this transaction, which was consummated in March 2015 and has finally gotten Commission approval.

The purpose of an FM translator station is to rebroadcast programming originating from an AM radio station, a fully-licensed FM radio station that needs "fill-in" coverage, or an HD multicast station seeking an audience on the traditional 88-108 MHz band. A Wisconsin operator didn't quite follow those rules, and the Commission has handed it a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forefeiture for not doing so. The good news is that the owner has been given the OK for the translator's license renewal.

Hot on the heels of Entercom's new advertising campaign touting radio's benefits to the nation's leading marketers and advertising decision-makers, Nielsen Audio has revealed some key new details about radio consumption from its second-quarter 2017 Nielsen Total Audience Report. The key finding from the dominant audience measurement company? Time Spent Listening, or "TSL," still matters for the radio industry C-Suite, as radio listeners spend 58% of their tune-in time with their favorite station.