Bankrupt Shakers Vodka owes radio stations
Infinite Spirits Inc., the maker of Shakers Vodka, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to court documents. The voluntary petition was filed in...
Phil Boyce joins Salem
He left Talk Radio Network in November after a three-year stint as President of Programming there. Now the former 14-year WABC-AM NY PD is...
Radio cited as Super Bowl party essential
OK, this is by no stretch of the imagination one of the biggest radio stories of the year, but the medium did come up...
UK digital radio numbers not pretty
The growth of digital radio’s listening share in the UK has continued to be minimal, sparking concern that the government’s switchover decision date is...
Merlin WINS NYC slogan slug-out
The battle of slogans and cease-and-desist letters between CBS Radio all-News WINS-AM and Merlin Media’s all-News WEMP-AM NYC appears to have come to a...
FCC drains the wallets of two Florida pirates
The standard FCC fine for commandeering an FM frequency without a license is $10K, but the two latest FCC busts for the offense have...
Merlin Media stations add Clark Howard
Dial Global’s Clark Howard Minutes will begin airing on Merlin Media’s all-News stations WEMP-FM NY and WIQI-FM Chicago, adding 36,100 and 14,800 AQH respectively...
NAB Radio Board hears options on AM
NAB EVP/Chief Technology Officer Kevin Gage presented to the board this week an engineering study about the options available to AM broadcasters for dealing with issues such as increasing
Rick Santorum using radio to capture conservative nod
The race for the Republican presidential nomination has pretty much always been Mitt Romney v. everybody else, with numerous candidates taking a turn as...
Ivie discusses why PPM accreditation is so complex
Given the news that the Media Rating Council (MRC) that it has withdrawn accreditation of the monthly AQH radio ratings data produced by the...
MRC withdraws accreditation in five PPM markets
Arbitron has been informed by the Media Rating Council (MRC) that it has withdrawn the accreditation of the monthly AQH radio ratings data produced by the PPM service in five markets: Cleveland, Portland OR, Riverside-San Bernardino, Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo, and
Two more pirates busted in Florida radio waters
The Florida airwaves have been one of the hotspots for FM spectrum piracy, and the FCC has put the collar on two more of...
Birach to launch ESPN Radio in Detroit
Now we know why the News-Talk station recently dropped the "The Bonds and Fisher Show." Birach Broadcasting’s WCAR-AM GM Buzz Van Houten also mentioned...
WLYF Miami adds John Tesh
The John Tesh Radio Show is debuting evenings on Lincoln Financial Media’s WLYF-FM "101.5 LiteFM." The Tesh show will make its debut in the...
"The Gamut" launches on WTOP HD-3
DC has a new radio station in Hubbard Broadcasting’s WTOP-HD3. Appropriately named, “The Gamut” plays just about everything: AAA, Blues, Dance, Classic Country, Disco,...