Strong quarter for Clear Channel
Revenues gained 7% to $1.58 billion in Q3 for CC Media Holdings, parent company of Clear Channel Communications. Radio revenues were also up 7% to $798.5 million, including the addition of the Metro Traffic business purchased
Dial Global execs make Nasdaq debut
With their stock now trading on Nasdaq as “DIAL,” top executives of Dial Global visited the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square Monday (10/31) and...
Harold Camping officially out of the prophet business
Family Radio Doomsday prognosticator Harold Camping has admitted that he was wrong about the end of the world – which is a sure sign...
Y98 Mistletoe Show set for 12/3
CBS Radio’s Hot AC KYKY-FM (Y98) St. Louis will host its first ever Missouri Coin Company Y98 Mistletoe Show 12/3 at 7:30pm CT at...
Yankees extend contract with WCBS-AM
The extension gives WCBS NY rights to air games through the 2012 season. The Yankees retain the option to extend the agreement for another...
Radio bookkeeper due in court Wednesday
William Nolan faces federal charges that he embezzled more than $2 million during the years he worked as the bookkeeper for Larry Steckline’s radio...
Saturday Night Live #1 non-sport broadcast
In late-night metered-market households Saturday night: An encore telecast of “Saturday Night Live” (3.5/8 in metered-market households, Boston and Hartford currently excluded), hosted by...
Rusty Humphries kicks in for Vietnam Vets Memorial Fund
Talk Radio Network’s Rusty Humphries will serve as the National Radio Spokesman for the “Build the Education Center at the Wall” campaign being spearheaded...
One fine ties to another at Laredo AM
Sometimes a violation of an FCC rule is isolated and self-contained; other times, it is related to one or more companion violations, or it...
Radio One/Houston to flip Praise 92.1 to "News 92 FM"
Just days after adding a Praise (Christian Inspirational/Gospel) format in Detroit, Radio One is taking one down to launch an all-News
Radio advertiser uses ad to screen clients (video)
Crockett Keller of Keller’s Riverside Store teaches classes designed to prepare students for getting a concealed handgun license, and he advertised his service on...
WWRL adds "Equality and Pride"
On 10/31, Access.1 Communications’ progressive talker WWRL-AM NY is launching Equality Pride Radio, a programming block geared to New York’s LGBT community. The programs...
Emmis takes Hungarian radio dispute to international forum
It’s been nearly two years since Slager Radio went silent in Hungary, but Emmis Communications isn’t giving up in its battle to get the...
Tourism helping in hard-hit markets
Beasley Broadcast Group owns a cluster of stations at ground zero for the housing bubble bust – Las Vegas – and Ft. Myers, FL...
New board settles in at Dial-Global
With the merger of Westwood One and Dial-Global on October 21st, a new management team from Dial-Global took over, as previously reported, and most of the old WW1 board of directors exited. We now have details on the full board of the merged