RAB / Radio Advertising Bureau

RAB reports 3% revenue drop

Radio's Q2 '14 revenue performance was moderate, down 3% (to $4.536 billion) from the same period last year based on diminished Spot activity.

Online radio company Myxer files for bankruptcy

If online radio is on the ascendancy, it isn’t necessarily going to be an easy flight for just anybody who wants
Ajit Pai

Pai still doing the AM hustle

Yesterday, in Columbus, Ohio, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai tried to whip up new enthusiasm for the revitalization of AM radio, almost

“Evolution with Pete Tong” rebranded, expanded

Premiere Networks and Beatport, an SFX Entertainment company, have announced the launch of “The Evolution Beatport Show with Pete Tong.”

KVIB in Phoenix flips to Soft AC

At noon on Wednesday, Riviera Broadcasting’s KVIB in Phoenix flipped from Spanish AC to Soft AC “95.1 The Oasis,” promising 55 minutes of “Lite and Refreshing” music every hour.

WOMC-Detroit dishes up DJ nostalgia

This weekend, Detroit’s WOMC-FM (104.3) will be broadcasting “Radio Recall,” a look back at the classic Detroit disc jockeys — and music — that provided the soundtrack to those classic cars of the 1950s and ’60s.
RAB / Radio Advertising Bureau

Radio is Effective for Healthcare Advertising

When it comes to which type of advertising influences healthcare choices, radio was ranked as
Rush Limbaugh

Limbaugh criticizes Robin Williams

According to a transcript of Rush Limbaugh’s Tuesday show, the right-wing radio host didn’t have much

Analysts prognosticate on Pandora’s future

In a report dated Aug. 12, 2014, Stifel analysts Scott W. Devitt, John Egbert and Alex Chavdaroff weighed in

Radio Disney ditching air for digital

The Walt Disney Company is looking to sell 23 more radio stations and move its Radio Disney kids

Casey Kasem’s body headed to Europe?

It’s a story that just keeps getting stranger…and sadder. While Casey Kasem was incapacitated by dementia in the latter stages of his life, his family fought an ongoing battle over where he should receive care, and who should be able to visit him. During that time the whole affair became a running soap opera. But when the radio legend passed away on June 15, the weirdness headed for the stratosphere.

Nielsen: Multicultural consumers shaping the future of music

African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Hispanics—the “Multicultural” consumers—are taking the music

Former station owner Hal Gore passes away

Harold W. Gore (Hal) of Vero Beach, Florida, and Sky Valley, Georgia passed away August 8, 2014 after battling two simultaneous cancers. He was born May 16, 1931 in Watertown, NY the only son of Harold W. Gore Sr. and Edna McNulty Gore.

KFBK to broadcast Honor Bowl

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Sacramento’s NewsRadio KFBK and The Honor Group, Inc., a community organization dedicated to educating, empowering and equipping military

Yahoo Sports Radio celebrates 500 Affiliates

Yahoo! Sports Radio announced today it had eclipsed the milestone mark of 500 affiliate partners