Emmis to launch NextRadio app for smartphones in 2013
Emmis is building upon its TagStation product by introducing “NextRadio,” a new receiver app for FM and HD Radio-enabled smartphones. Remember, Emmis recently completed...
WFMU-FM struggling to recover from Sandy
WFMU, New Jersey’s/metro NYC’s much-loved freeform station @ 91.1 FM, has been off the air since Hurricane Sandy and just came back up on...
UCC wants local requirement for LPFM
The United Church of Christ has told the FCC that it didn’t fight to expand the LPFM service to see it filled with licensees...
Saga cites unique slate of September slowdown culprits
A common thread has emerged during round of Q3 quarterly conference calls: The sudden slowdown in broadcast business
Dial Global details 2012 Carrier Classic coverage
Dial Global will air exclusive coverage of the Second Annual Carrier Classic—featuring a doubleheader--on Friday, 11/9. Last year’s game was played between North Carolina...
WAY-FM launches in Birmingham, AL
WAYMedia Founder/President Bob Augsburg, has announced the long anticipated launch: “This has been a long time coming” says Augsburg, “For nine years WAY-FM has...
TuneIn details political radio listening in swing states
TuneIn has gathered listening data of political radio programming in October. The results span 4.1 million listening hours specifically within swing states, including the...
MMTC calls for rejection of broadcast radio performance royalties
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council says that the value of airplay is more than enough compensation for labels and artists whose work is...
Joe Kelley lands morning show on WDBO
Cox Media Group says the host of the KRMG Morning News in Tulsa, Joe Kelley, is moving to its News-Talker WDBO-A/FM Orlando, replacing “Central...
Dickey says radio must sell political better
Cumulus honcho Lew Dickey expects its 2012 political results to improve during Q4, but Q3 was disappointing, falling well short of 2010 levels. He...
Struggling stations pull Cumulus into the pro forma red
Q3 marks the point at which Cumulus closed on its merger with Citadel, and as such, raw numbers are up -- way up. However,...
NBC Sports Radio adds NBA analyst
Dial Global and the NBC Sports Group say basketball veteran Stan Van Gundy is the latest to join NBC Sports Radio as a Senior...
LSU host Bobby Hebert ejected from press box
Outspoken Entercom WWL-AM New Orleans radio host and former New Orleans Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert got a little too excited and was subsequently escorted...
Former Susquehanna exec Carlson passes
Arthur W. Carlson, longtime leader of iconic Susquehanna Radio has passed following a battle with heart ailments. RBR-TVBR extends its deepest sympathies to Mr....
WVOC adds Jonathon Rush, Kelly Nash to afternoons
Clear Channel’s News Talk Sports WVOC-FM Columbia, SC says that sister station, Country WCOS-FM’s morning duo Jonathon Rush and Kelly Nash will now host...