YMF sells two to Pham Radio
YMF Media, previously Inner City Broadcasting, closed on the sale of Chinese-language KVTO-AM Berkeley, CA and Vietnamese-language KVVN-AM San Jose, CA to Pham Radio...
WTOP’s “Man About Town” to retire
Hubbard Radio’s WTOP-FM DC announced that veteran journalist Bob Madigan will retire at the end of the year after more than 50 years in...
KFOX welcomes Chris Jackson to mornings
Entercom’s KFOX 98.5/102.1, (KUFX) the Bay’s Area heritage rocker, announced that long time Bay Area and KFOX morning personality Chris Jackson will return to...
Rush making big moves
Starting Monday 1/6, Rush Limbaugh affiliations are going to be changing in three markets: In NYC from Cumulus’ WABC to CCME’s WOR. The others are being moved to new radio stations being created by CCME to organize audiences around exclusively conservative talk radio instead of the current blended news and broader talk. In LA, there will be a new CCME-branded station at the current KTLK-AM 1150. It will be called “The Patriot.” Rush will be moving from KFI there. In San Francisco,
Nielsen looks at Christmas Music audience
For radio, the annual tradition of holiday music is now in full swing, as most of the stations that typically flip to the “All...
Cumulus refinancing $2.23 billion in debt
Like many other companies right now, Cumulus is riding the refinancing wave, issuing loans
WAAF “Rises Up Against Hunger”
Entercom’s WAAF 97.7/107.3FM Boston announced the station will once again host a fundraising event, “WAAF’s Rise Up Against Hunger,” from 12/11 to 12/13. WAAF...
New talent for The New HOT 103.7
Entercom Seattle welcomes Candy & Potter to anchor the morning show for The New HOT 103.7 (KHTP). As well as Kristin The Island Girl for middays. The announcement is a homecoming for Candy & Potter, as both members of this duo were raised in the Seattle area and began their radio careers there.
Sun Broadcast Group adds Jelli ad platform
Sun Broadcast Group CEO Jason Bailey says the company is investing in the deployment of Jelli's cloud-based ad platform across its network that will...
Localized news radio app readies
It’s a Pandora-like hyperlocal approach to traffic with “musical interludes” from
The 100 Greatest Christmas Hits adds 15
Envision Radio Networks says the latest group of affiliates that will be counting down to Christmas with The 100 Greatest Christmas Hits of All...
What’s up with “El Mandril”?
SBS’s top-rated morning driver “El Mandril” (Ricardo Sanchez) has been off the air at KLAX-FM LA for weeks because of what we’ve heard to be contract negotiations (his current contract ends 1/13). Well, the LA Times says it may be more than that:
Radio Discussions shuts down
Streamline Digital Inc., a division of RBR-TVBR owner Streamline Publishing, acquired the Radio Discussions message boards in May from In3Media, operated by Diana Fleming....
Is there a future for progressive political talk radio?
Conservative dominance of the political talk genre is a given, and what little liberal presence there is seems
Univision Radio debuts “El Bueno, La Mala, y El Feo”
It’s the morning show replacement for Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo: Translated, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,”