Radio News

Leon Williamson has been elevated from SVP of Sales to Indianapolis Market President for iHeartMedia. This puts Williamson in charge of five stations.

The multimedia company superserving African American consumers has until June 7 to file its 2023 annual report and Q1 2024 earnings with the Securities and Exchange Commission — or submit a plan with Nasdaq — in order to regain compliance with the stock exchange's trading rules.

With NPR programming during daylight hours and Jazz at night, KVUT-FM has served Tyler, Tex., from the University of Texas' campus in this city. On Friday, the station went dark. A station sale is already underway, with Tideline Partners LLC hired as the school's broker. KVUT-FM has ceased operations ahead of its sale.

In November, a group of radio stations and their respective FM translators ceased operations, due to financial troubles. Now, the bankruptcy trustee representing the two entities that jointly operated the stations has successfully secured an asset sale of the stations and FM translators.

Privately held TelevisaUnivision's U.S. based subsidiary, which includes the Uforia-branded audio division containing Univision Communications' radio stations and the company's stateside television operation, has priced its refinancing of $1 billion of debt.

For those who love twirling Terrible Towels and care to follow their favorite NFL team while away from a TV screen, they'll be no changes when it comes to what radio stations in the Steel City to turn to across the next five seasons.

With no amendments, the new version of the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" has advanced to the full House Energy & Commerce Committee. This InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, offers audio highlights from a House Subcommittee hearing where the legislation was discussed.

The Classical FM serving Texas' state capital may be best-known across the Lone Star State as a home for the works of Bach, Rachmaninoff, and Schubert. Now, it could say, in a way, that its also the home of the Electric Light Orchestra or The Power Station.

In 1984, he joined a Top 40 radio station in Rochester, N.Y., and has been there ever since, staying through a successful 1987 format change to Country and today holds the afternoon shift. Now, the station owned by Audacy Inc. on Friday will celebrate this host's 40th year at the station.

With Connoisseur Media celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson checks in with Jeff Warshaw to take the pulse of the company. In this podcast, we learn more about a recent Country launch on Long Island and the continued dominant performance of its stations in Fairfield County, Conn.

The Hispanic Radio Conference, held June 12-13 in San Antonio, promises not only to be the place to get informed and be inspired — be prepared to be entertained as well. Be sure to save your seat to this great conference today.

They are heritage stations that have served the Lake Tahoe basin and surrounding areas for decades. Alas, changing media habits and local advertising shifts have made business challenging for the stations' owner. As such, D&H Broadcasting LLC has voluntary filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

A Class D AM with 5kw of daytime power and 111 watts at night from 1 tower adjacent to a Nature's Own Bakery Outlet along a road in northwest Birmingham is being sold by SummitMedia, along with its FM translator at 100.1 MHz that benefits from a tower atop Red Mountain.

A spoken word format that takes on-demand digitally distributed content and places it in a programming grid is being added to a pair of Alpha Media broadcast radio stations in Missouri, thanks to a partnership with an entity that has placed content syndication in the hands of Gary Krantz.

In some parts of the U.S., Gen Z Latinos are being attracting to radio thanks to a style of music sweeping Mexico in a newfound way: "corridos." Don't believe it? A panel discussion at the upcoming Hispanic Radio Conference featuring Costa Media President of Programming Gerardo López will uncover the surprising details.