WYEP celebrating 40th anniversary
Beginning 1/1, Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corp.’s AAA WYEP-FM will kick off its 40th anniversary celebration. To begin the year-long celebration, the station will host...
Seeking Alpha: “Google is becoming a huge threat”
Rizzi Capital just penned a blog in Seeking Alpha that details how much the news of Google’s Android
WGHQ-AM donated to NPR affiliate
WGHQ, a struggling small-town AM in Kingston, NY has a new lease on life after its owner gave it to “the smallest NPR station in the United States rather than shut it down,” says a UPI story. WGHQ will start broadcasting as part of non-profit WHDD-FM, Sharon, CT, known as "Robin Hood Radio," Tuesday or New Year's Day, both stations said.
Savage talks about coming to NYC drivetime
With Cumulus powerhouse Michael Savage soon moving his show to the 3-6 PM slot, the NY Daily News interviewed the native New Yorker about what his show will be like when it launches on WABC-AM there. Here are some excerpts from the interview story:
WRCU-FM raises $5.1 million for Colgate U.
Reminds us bit of a recent story we ran about Larry Patrick of Patrick Communications donating
L&L flipping news-talker to ESPN in Columbia
L&L Broadcasting, which owns 35 stations nationally including five in the South Carolina Midlands, will switch WOIC-AM from its current news talk format to...
RMLC loses injunction, but good news too
The Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) has been denied an injunction in its ongoing lawsuit
Casino complex in DC approved; Radio One on board
MGM has just been awarded a contract to build a $925 million casino at the National Harbor
Treasure and Space Coast Radio buys WPHR-FM
On 12/24, Vero Beach, FL-based Treasure and Space Coast Radio announced that it had completed the acquisition of WPHR-FM
KEXX, KMVA merging for “Trending Radio”
Riviera Broadcasting’s Hot AC KEXX-FM My 103.9 Gilbert/Phoenix, AZ and Trumper Communications’
KBPI Denver’s DJ Willie B has a big heart
DJ Willie B of CCME’s Denver rocker KBPI-FM came through big time for an 89-year old grandmother in the form of an $80,000 home renovation. He recently put up a question on his Facebook page, "What would you do if money were no object." He got the usual responses (800 or so): get a new car, go on a vacation... but one listener, Stacy Salazar, responded that she would buy her Grandma new carpeting because the 90-year-old took care of her and her younger siblings after her single mother was murdered: "Replace the carpets for my 90-year-old Grammy and fixing all the little things around her house. Just a small thank you for not giving us kids up to foster care when our parents died," she wrote.
Errol Lewis: What killed the liberal radio star?
The former WWRL-AM NY morning driver and current NY1 cable net political anchor has penned
Nielsen: Christmas Music impact on December ratings
With Christmas just one day away, holiday music has overtaken the radio airwaves. In looking at the December listening trends from Nielsen’s PPM markets,...
WINS-AM NYC vet Stan Brooks passes
Brooks, at 86, never retired from the station. He’d been behind the mic for 50 years at the heritage
Christmas is for Children radiothon raises $1 million
Children’s Medical Center announced its 2013 Christmas is for Children radiothon raised more than $1 million for the nation’s fifth-largest, not-for-profit pediatric hospital. The...














