Radio News

It is a Class A radio station with a 50kw signal which at night can be heard across multiple states and Canadian provinces. Now, Audacy Inc. is rolling out a series of special endeavours to celebrate the 100th anniversary of WCCO-AM 830 in Minneapolis.

The sports-betting focused media company with a newsroom studio embedded in the sportsbook at the Circa Resort and Casino on Fremont Street has adopted a new management structure — one that sees an internal promotion as VSiN fills its Chief Operating Officer role.

Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has just sent a message to Lina Khan that the Federal Trade Commission went a step too far in initiating a ban on noncompete agreements.

On August 14, Howard Greiner was named Metro President for iHeartMedia in Nashville. This saw Grenier depart Upstate New York, where he had oversight of the company's radio stations in Albany and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; and Sussex, N.J. Now, this "Upstate New York Area" region has a new leader.

What has made the soon-to-conclude "Stan & Haney" radio show iconic in Southwest Florida and what learning lessons do they have to share about the power of local radio? To find out RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson welcomes Stan Nawalaniec to the InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM.

August 20 is "National Radio Day," and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) used the occasion to share that the Chief Executive Officer of Salem Media Group has been selected as its recipient of the 2024 National Radio Award.

On April 30, 2019, Carl Lamm officially said goodbye to the radio industry. Now, those who knew Lamm are preparing to say their goodbyes to him. Lamm died on Thursday following a period of declining health at the age of 97.

The selection of eight new "Legends inductees" into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2024 has been made. The honors, the Hall says, recognize "the talents and efforts of on-air personalities, programmers and operators who contributed with greatness to the radio industry and have since passed away."

Lansing, 67, enjoyed a career that involved navigating some media organizations through bumpy periods in their history. This included his time at NPR, which began in October 2019. News of Lansing's departure came in September 2023, when word came of his retirement at the end of the year.

Unaided awareness for a local business towered over well-known national franchises, and the Radio advertising success story in this college town from Steve's Pest Control is an academic learning lesson worth hearing at the upcoming Radio Masters Sales Summit on September 10-11 in Cincinnati.

As expected, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez today signed off on an emergency motion giving Audacy Inc. the ability to extend its pause on meeting certain financial obligations beyond Monday — a request that came earlier this week due to FCC inaction in approving its post-bankruptcy restructuring agreement.

In the latest move by Corus Entertainment as it seeks to control its expenses in a period of extreme economic challenges, the company has turned off the lights at what had once been one of Ontario's most powerful AM radio stations.

Blame it on politics, and on the FCC. Six months after a Houston Federal Bankruptcy Court approved Audacy's restructuring plan, Commission approval still awaits. With a forbearance period set to expire on Monday, an emergency motion to extend it was submitted to the court by Audacy.

Longtime radio industry figure Mike McVay, Beasley Media Group's Mary Menna, and Urban One SVP/Programming Colby Tyner have been added as presenters at a newly introduced Radio + Podcast Interactive Forum tied to this year's NAB Show New York.

At the end of May, an AM radio station serving northern Santa Barbara County, Calif., went dark under a STA. It was a tough decision made by Sandy Knight, whose husband tragically died following a 2022 paragliding accident. Now, Knight Broadcasting has found a buyer for the properties.