Radio News

Could your client be suffering from a glut of spots? If you're in Chicago, the answer is a likely "yes" — unless your station is operated by Hubbard Radio. In a revealing blog post crafted for marketers and advertisers, the radio broadcasting arm of Minneapolis-led Hubbard has lashed out at long commercial breaks — "a legitimate concern" for an ad partner. The broadcaster's Windy City cluster has also outlined other areas to consider regarding its competitor's wary ways toward spot scheduling and promised ROI. We've got one of our "famous" RBR+TVBR OBSERVATIONS on this subject.

An individual who oversees a group of radio stations that are up for sale has just become the Chair of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. Other positions were filled, and taking the role of Vice Chair-Radio/Chair-Elect is a woman associated with an FM in Lake Geneva, Wisc.

A put-and-call agreement giving Cumulus Media ownership of WKQX-FM "Q101" and WLUP-FM in Chicago has been terminated. However, the court adjourned until Feb. 8 so Merlin Media may resolve a talent agreement with veteran air personality Mancow Muller.

One week ago, the cellular provider for Nielsen Audio in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater market experienced a network outage. A Nielsen Audio spokesperson released a brief statement on the matter. Is there more to the story? One source who spoke with RBR+TVBR says yes.

It’s a fact: Some stations have great “numbers,” but unless those numbers translate at the cash register, they may be ringing the wrong ears. How do you tell your station’s story? Do you know secrets to marketing your audience most effectively through the art form of storytelling? At the Hispanic Radio Conference, there’s a session for that.

Some 30 days after it went dark, a directional two-pattern 5kw AM with a rich history in Pittsburgh is ready to be brought back to life. Handling the resuscitation efforts is the owner of a multicultural Class D daytimer with an FM translator covering the city's eastern suburbs. Thus, the "new" KQV may be hard to understand for some Three Rivers residents.

Here's the good news for Sirius XM shareholders: Subscriber, advertising and equipment revenue all climbed for the satellite radio company in Q4. Unfortunately, those gains couldn't offset a gain in revenue share and royalty payments—a key contributor to a fourth-loss that was in line with the expectations of Wall Street analysts.

A successful privately owned radio broadcasting company active across some of Idaho's biggest markets is sporting a new name. The change for what had been Locally Owned Radio LLC comes as the result of an official "handing of the keys" to a new management team for the Twin Falls, Idaho market, where these stations compete against Townsquare Media.

The owner of a Class C2 FM station serving the Oregon coast from Coos Bay has decided it no longer wants to beam one of its signals from its lighthouse. An asset purchase agreement has been signed and filed with the FCC that sees Lighthouse Radio Group sell this facility, which just changed its call letters, to a local entity headed by an individual recognized in 2012 by Radio INK magazine as being among the top 12 broadcast Directors of Sales in the U.S. 

The man who helped put one of the most successful independently owned CHR/Pop radio stations on the air has died following an automobile accident in which he was driving in the wrong direction on an interstate highway in eastern Iowa.

Is Emmis in the final stages of repositioning itself as a digital company, focusing on TagStation and NextRadio instead of radio stations? One top media broker has his thoughts. A source close to the matter says he's wrong about one of this broker's assertions.

An individual with four decades of experience in Urban radio has formed a broadcast company with a very specific intention. It wants to purchase a radio station, located in a medium-sized market in the northeastern part of the U.S. This radio industry figure owned an FM in The First State for 17 years, and is intent on being an independent owner once again.

A deal has been reached between the NAB and music rights organizations ASCAP and BMI that resolves broadcast concerns with the Music Modernization Act.

The finalists for the prestigious 2018 Medallas de Cortez, the only awards dedicated to recognizing the very best in Hispanic radio, have been revealed by Radio INK, host of the 2018 Hispanic Radio Conference. The Medallas de Cortez awards are named in honor of Raoul Cortez, founder of the first Spanish-language radio station in the United States, KCOR/San Antonio, in 1946. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on Tuesday, March 13 as part of the Hispanic Radio Conference, March 13-14 at the Intercontinental at Doral in Miami.

Spanish Broadcasting System, the owner of the Mega TV operation and a host of Spanish-language radio stations across the U.S., wants FCC approval to exceed the foreign ownership benchmark. Through attorney Meredith Senter of D.C. communications practice Lerman Senter PLLC, a Petition for Declaratory Ruling was filed on behalf of SBS on Dec. 4, 2017. Media Bureau Chief Michelle Carey has now spoken. SBS needs to say more for her to issue a decision. So do dissident shareholders, who may include foreign owners SBS had been unaware of until being sued by them.