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TagStation has done some interesting new analysis that tracks month-to-month growth in NextRadio use. One of the greatest benefits of this type of listening is the usage reporting, and that has been such a powerful tool in helping shape the story around NextRadio’s adoption, retention, and future.

Last Fall's entry of Apple’s iTunes Radio appears to be getting a boost soon to increase the adoption of

In this latest report, Nielsen says that more than 181 million Americans age 12+ older, or 68% of the national population, heard a network radio commercial during an average week.

Pizza Patron is a Dallas-based chain using a new promotion that uses a popular Mexican slang word that

In the wake of CCME CEO John Hogan’s exit from the company in January, peeling of a layer

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 Corp. dropped its proposal to acquire the rest of Sirius XM Holdings Inc

The RAB is reporting radio revenues for Q4 and FY 2013 were flat against 2012 comps which had been

As Emmis begins to bring its WQHT-FM HOT-97, WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM under the leadership of Deon Levingston, after the

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 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

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.

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.

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