Radio News

The Educational Media Foundation has a Class A noncomm in Orange County, Calif., that airs its Air1 Christian Pop format. An LPFM on the same frequency granted to a nonprofit group in Pasadena, Calif., was challenged in an FCC Application for Review. The FCC's Media Bureau denied the AFR. Here's why.

The Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA) now has 164 co-sponsors in the House and 18 in the Senate. Supporters in the upper body of Congress now include a veteran Mississippi legislator.

The iHeartRadio live streaming, podcasting, and on-demand digital music app has just surpassed a big number, with respect to its tally of registered users. The announcement comes after iHeart beat Pandora by roughly two months on launching an subscription-based on-demand audio offering.

The company revealed in an SEC filing late Wednesday that its former CEO, who exited the post in October 2015 but remained a key member of the Cumulus Media Board of Directors, resigned as the board's Vice Chairman on Monday. Who's replacing Dickey? The change is all in the family.

Westwood One today will promote Mark Wildman to a newly expanded role at the network sales and programming arm of Cumulus Media. He joined WW1 in October 2016 after a run at William Morris.

Entercom's choice for a CFO brings it to Travel Leaders Group, the largest travel agency company in the U.S. This individual also played a key role at LIN Media prior to its acquisition by Media General.

Here's what Capital Cube had to say about the company, which saw its shares hovering between 41 and 42 cents at Thursday's Closing Bell. The No. 2 owner of AM and FM stations was placed side by side with Entercom, Saga Communications, Salem Media Group and Radio One.

With the company's Q4 "transitional" thanks to the addition of Greater Media stations to the Beasley family, income and revenue were up. Political dollars also aided Beasley in the final three months of 2016.

The individual responsible for creating and launching the Ford Developer Program at the Ford Motor Company -- the world's first mobile application developer ecosystem in the automotive industry -- has been selected to speak at the NAB Show Radio Luncheon on April 25 in Las Vegas.

A presently silent AM facility in Palm Beach County, Florida that saw its license for an FM translator station get cancelled by the FCC won't be getting that license back, thanks to a Memorandum Opinion and Order released Tuesday (3/21) by the Commission.

Attention, Entercom stock owners: The broadcast radio company's annual shareholder meeting is set for May 10 at its Philadelphia-area headquarters. On top of the agenda is the approval of executive compensation, including that of company head David Field. His 2016 salary and that of two other key Entercom execs was shared in an SEC filing, and we've got the details.

The brand behind Maxwell the Pig is again the leader with radio spots. But there's a QSR that's just stepped it up, and has jumped way ahead of McDonald's in their use of AM and FM radio in the week ending March 19.

Entercom Communications shareholders may need to closely monitor the day-to-day stock price of this pure-play radio company that's merging with CBS Radio, based on moves seen last week in the options market. That's the advice given by Zacks Equity Research ahead of the March 17 expiration of a $20 strike price that saw some of the highest implied volatility of all equity options.

Unlicensed activity on the FM radio dial is a big problem in New Jersey, and New Jersey Broadcasters Association President Paul Rotella has made it known to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

A broker is offering to interested suitors a radio station cluster comprised of three Class C FMs, an AM and three FM translators in a famed ski resort community in the Rocky Mountains. These happen to be a group of stations at the heart of a dispute involving American Tower.