NAB: ASCAP, BMI Consent Decrees necessary to promote fair music licensing
The Consent Decrees governing the licensing of musical works
200 House opponents of performance tax
Four more members of the House of Representative have joined the group supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act, the antidote to the Performance Rights...
FCC shovels out from typo blizzard
A number of licensee-wannabes with dismissed applications for new FMs had erroneous geo-coordinates in their tech boxes...
Mario Lopez gets evenings at 104.3MYfm LA
Clear Channel’s Hot AC KBIG-FM 104.3 MYfm says Mario Lopez, popular television personality, producer, actor and best-selling author, will join the station’s weekday lineup,...
Expansion for Debut
Debut Broadcasting, the smallest publicly traded radio company, announced an LMA to add a third station to its Vicksburg, MS cluster. It will now...
Big Deal: NFL Commanders Stick With iHeartMedia
With the start of the 2022 NFL season, the team inked an English-language flagship broadcast deal with iHeartMedia's stations serving the National Capital Region. The team and the local management leading the stations owned by America's largest radio broadcasting company have just agreed to a contract extension.
Brian Thomas interviewed on WNSH success in NYC
The NY Daily News’ David Hinckley interviewed Thomas, Corporate PD and PD of Cumulus 94.7 Nash FM
A Real, and Bigger, Presence In The Upper Midwest
A large noncommercial group of religious radio stations operating in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota has snagged its third FM signal in The Mount Rushmore State. In doing so, it will bring back to life a Class C3 FM that until September 2017 was a Classic Rocker owned by the central figure behind a payday lender whose business was quashed by South Dakota voters in November 2016. That vote resulted in this individual planting "For Sale" signs for several of his business, largely purchased with profits from his Dollar Loan Center.
Time to look in the mirror
Radio is its “own worst enemy” Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey said in his quarterly conference call. Despite the sale of 150 million iPods and the national availability of pay satellite radio
Eastlan adds Newburgh-Middletown, NY
Eastlan Ratings has added a third market in the Empire State. In addition to Syracuse and Utica-Rome, the nation's second largest radio ratings firm...
Pandora Reports Q3 2015 Financial Results
Here is the full rundown from Pandora
WLRN Acquires West Palm Beach Move-In FM
It is an FM station that two years ago moved from the Treasure Coast to West Palm Beach in an effort to win over new listeners and grow its ad revenue. Now, Dean Freeman is signing off on the facility's sale to the owner of WLRN, the NPR Member station serving listeners across South Florida.
Hutchison opens fire with radio
The Texas gubernatorial shoot-out will be ratcheted up as challenger Kay Bailey Hutchison fires up a state-wide radio flight in her campaign to oust...
FM on cell posts double-digit growth rates
NextRadio reports that there are two impressively-angled up arrows applied to the growth chart.