Local radio called key player in Miami-Dade mayor recall
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and County Commissioner Natacha Seijas are officially out of office, and the campaigns being mounted to take their places are...
Paid interns being sought in Chicago
Interns are pretty common in broadcasting, but mostly as unpaid gofers whose reward is getting to see the business from inside. But the Pritzker...
Mark Mays exit countdown into final stage
RBR-TVBR observation: If a new CEO is not in place by a week from Thursday, March 31st, Mays has indicated to Wall Street analysts that the company will
WTMJ's 19th Annual Teddy Bear Patrol campaign begins
Journal Communications’ Newsradio 620 WTMJ will again lead the annual Teddy Bear Patrol campaign from 3/21 to 4/22, sponsored by Time Warner Cable and...
ESPN Tucson adds FM
And another AM adds an FM: Journal Broadcasting’s ESPN Radio 1490 The Fan is now known as ESPN Tucson 1490AM KFFN-AM & 104.9FM (KFFN-FM...
DigiMedia patent lawsuit extension granted
The latest on the DigiMedia patent lawsuit we recently wrote about, where the corporate owners of numerous groups, including Beasley Broadcasting, CBS Radio, Cox Radio, Cumulus, Entercom, Greater Media and Townsquare Media
Business improving for Radio One
Just 15 days after telling Wall Street that Q1 was only pacing flat to up in the single digits, Radio One has issued a...
Greenville's WORD-FM holds debate for protesters
Radio to the rescue, again, when it comes to Westboro Baptist Church funeral protesters: Entercom’s AM-FM News radio simulcast WORD-FM (WYRD) in Greenville, SC...
Citadel price falling as stock market drops
When Citadel Broadcasting announced acceptance of the takeover bid by Cumulus Media, Citadel proudly proclaimed that the value worked out to
NPR's future; long-form commercial competitor debuts
The National Public Radio debacle
WRXP shakes up air shifts
Emmis’ NYC AAA/Alternative 101.9 RXP says that starting 3/21 their Monday-Friday line-up shakes the shifts throughout the day. Steve Craig will now rise and...
Full House seconds Rules Committee NPR knockdown
The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 1076, a bill from Doug Lamborn (R-CO) aimed at eliminating federal funding for any programming
Dial Global adds more talkers on FMs
Dial Global announced its Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, and Bill Press have all just signed with the new 105.7 WHJX FM Jacksonville,...
Norman Goldman going live in San Francisco
Compass Media Networks’ Norman Goldman has been upgraded to afternoon drive on Clear Channel’s KKGN, Green 960 San Francisco beginning 3/28. The station will...
House Rules Committee votes to take a bite out of NPR
H.R. 1076 is a bill that proposes to take all funding away from National Public Radio, while avoiding taking a direct bite out of local noncommercial radio stations that carry NPR. And the local stations would be allowed to run NPR programming