WQWV-FM sold in WV
Thunder Associates is buying the Country outlet in Fisher, WV from McGuire Broadcasting. The station serves the serving the Petersburg/Moorefield, WV area. It’s 310 watts @ 1,385 ft. HAAT. The price was
Liberty Media drops proposal buy all of Sirius XM
Liberty Media Corp. dropped its proposal to acquire the rest of Sirius XM Holdings Inc
Radio holds on well in Q4, FY 2013
The RAB is reporting radio revenues for Q4 and FY 2013 were flat against 2012 comps which had been
Emmis needs new PD at Hot 97
As Emmis begins to bring its WQHT-FM HOT-97, WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM under the leadership of Deon Levingston, after the
What nationalization will mean to American Radio
Over the course of the last year, the programming strategies for American commercial radio’s ‘big boys’ – Clear Channel and Cumulus – have come increasingly into focus. Whether they believe it is the right thing to do for ratings, or for cost containment, or both, the two “Big C’s” are rapidly nationalizing the programming across their groups.
WestwoodOne details March Madness coverage
WestwoodOne is presenting exclusive coverage of the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship beginning 3/18. Full play-by-play action from 67 men’s basketball games includes the First Four, games from all eight second-round and third-round sites, four regional semifinals and finals venues, and all three games from the NCAA Men’s Final Four
“93.7 The Rock” launches in Denver
Following the move of its Sports Talk “Mile High Sports” from 1510 AM to 94.1 FM last week, Hunt Broadcasting has launched the Variety Hits “93.7 The Rock” K229BS Loveland, CO/KCKK-AM 1510 simulcast in Littleton, CO. The FM is 99 watts @ 716 ft. HAAT.
Malibu getting new FM
Dubbed “KBU 97.5,” Zuma Beach FM Emergency and Community Broadcasters (Hans Laetz) received approval from the FCC to fire up a freshly-granted CP in Malibu, CA.
“The River” launching in New Hampshire
On 3/14, Great Eastern Radio will launch AAA “106.7 The River” on W294AB (100 watts @ 300 ft. HAAT) fed by the HD2 channel of classic rocker WHDQ-FM 106.1 Claremont, NH. The River will serve the “Upper Valley” Hanover-Lebanon market that also includes Hartford, Norwich and Woodstock. Great Eastern also owns
Salem adds in Greenville/Spartanburg
Salem Broadcasting is buying WOLT-FM Greer, SC from Earth Radio Broadcasting for $100K and the cancellation of a promissory note valued at
AM Broadcaster seeks FCC waiver
Carl Como Tutera tells RBR-TVBR he has filed two amendments in the last few weeks to move his
WKSH-AM sold in Milwaukee
Radio Disney Group, LLC has sold 10-kW WKSH-AM to Starboard Media Foundation, Inc. The broker for Radio Disney was Bill Schutz of Williamsburg, VA-based Schutz & Company. The price was
Jelli launches “SpotPlan”
Jelli says SpotPlan is the first programmatic buying platform for radio advertising. In addition, the company announced the availability of demand and supply-side APIs to enable third-party buying and selling software to tap directly into Jelli’s ad platform.
Joe Zingale passes
Gary Weiss, RVP, Radio One Raleigh/Charlotte Region, says Joe Zingale, Bob Weiss’s (Gary’s father) and Norman Wain’s former partner years ago in the company they had that founded the famous WIXY 1260 and WDOK (“Stereo 102”) in Cleveland passed away 3/10 in Cleveland after a long battle with Parkinson’s:
Chop Shop Classic celebrates 40 years of AC/DC
Envision Networks Chop Shop Classic announces an AC/DC 40th Anniversary Special. Host Steve Black looks back 40 years to where it all began. The 2-hour special will revisit how the band came together, Angus' stage costumes and antics, the life and death of Bon Scott and replacing Bon the same year he died in 1980, and of course, the music history of AC/DC’s greatest hits.