Saturday, July 4, 2026

Broadcasting Pirate

Another Miami FM bandit nabbed

A Miami DJ was running an unauthorized FM station on 92.7 MHz. One day, heading to his office suite, he ran into FCC agents...

WYSL-AM hosts getting heat from racial remarks

Bob Savage’s News/Talk WYSL-FM Rochester, NY is drawing some national attention after conservative talkers made racially tinged remarks about an Asian-American candidate in upstate...

BCE to sell 10 stations for Astral deal

Canadian telecom giant BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises) has offered to spend C$200 million on Canadian programming and sell 10 radio stations on 7/11 as...

KEZK gets new afternoon driver

CBS Radio’s Fresh 102.5 (KEZK-FM) in St. Louis announced Greg Hewitt will return to the company as the station’s Afternoon Drive personality, effective Monday,...
Envision Radio Networks

Envision now offering Westar Music

Envision Radio Networks announces that Westar Music’s royalty-free online commercial production music library is now available on a barter basis. The Westar Music commercial...
Sirius XM

Liberty’s Malone discusses premium in SiriusXM deal

SiriusXM CEO Mel Karmazin has been telling Wall Street that he will not give up control of Sirius without securing a premium from Liberty...
NAB / National Association of Broadcasters

NAB calls out CTIA on inaccurate FM chip testimony

At the 6/6/12 Communications Subcommittee Future of Audio hearing, CTIA’s Christopher Guttman-McCabe repeatedly cited a Best Buy catalog containing 26 FM-enable cell phones. However,...
Emmis Communications

Smulyan upbeat about new transformed Emmis

The straight revenue statistics did not paint a particularly pretty picture for Emmis Communications during its initial fiscal quarter of the year, but if...
Jeff Smulyan

FM chip dominates Emmis report on the state of radio

Emmis President/CEO Jeff Smulyan is upbeat about the heightened prospects for an FM chip on cell phones and the bright future of

North Miami can’t subsidize WURN-AM carnival–yet

New World Broadcasting’s WURN-AM, a popular Miami-Ft. Lauderdale Haitian outlet, came before the North Miami City council Tuesday requesting $270,650 to throw a street...

WMGO GM claims rights violations in lawsuit

The manager of News-Talk/Variety WMGO-AM Canton, MS (WMGO Broadcasting, Inc.) has amended his lawsuit against the city of Canton claiming that, in addition to...

Warm 106.9 reaches out to community children

Sandusky Radio's Warm 106.9 FM Seattle Teddy Bear Patrol joins Multimedia Seattle's other critical community partners, including Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center, Auburn...

Sun sets on four unclaimed FM allotments

Auctions have come and gone, with no takers for a quartet of potential CPs. And unlike playthings on the Island of Misfit Toys, there...

KRLA beefs up morning team in LA

Salem Communications announced that less than two months after adding Heidi Harris as the morning host on KRLA-AM 870 The Answer in Los Angeles,...
Envision Radio Networks

American Biker Minute presents 10 Days of Sturgis

his August, affiliates can ride along with Envision Radio Networks’ American Biker Minute as host Jeff Ryan it rolls into South Dakota for the...