Mancow to be radio host on "The Chicago Code"
Talk Radio Network and Dial-Global’s Erich “Mancow” Muller is now on the Fox’s latest police drama, The Chicago Code, airing Mondays at 9 p.m....
Radio revenues grew 10% in Q4 for Clear Channel
CC Media Holdings, the parent company of Clear Channel Communications, reported that 2010 revenues were up 6% to $5.87 billion, with radio revenues up...
Rhode Island governor dials down employee talk radio ban
It turns out that when rookie Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chaffee (I) said employees of the state government were to stay off the airwaves...
AURN launching "Digital Lifestyle"
The daily short-form feature, replacing and upgrading their “Surfing the Net” program, teaches listeners how to better themselves by leveraging technology to enhance both...
The Hutchinson Report expands
The Hutchinson Report Communications Network will expand its weekly Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour currently airing on KTYM LA and WFAX DC to add WWNL...
Former group owner James Dick has died
James A. Dick owned WIVK-AM (and later FM) Knoxville, TN from 1953 until he sold the 11-station group Dick Broadcasting in 2000. WIVK reports...
Jack Popejoy dead at 63
Longtime CBS Radio Los Angeles news anchor, reporter and journalist Jack Popejoy has succumbed to cancer. He was only 63.
Popejoy had anchored the morning...
MusicFirst threat needs immediate feedback
RBR-TVBR Exclusive: While the performance tax still looks unlikely to pass, MusicFirst has told NAB that they now intend to challenge as many radio
Alden complains of Emmis support for lawsuit
RBR-TVBR First: Alden Global Capital is complaining of the action by Emmis Communications to provide funding to sue Alden over its abandoned deal
KTRU finds air on KPFT-HD2
Good news for Rice University's student run radio station, KTRU-FM (91.7) Houston, which sold its license and tower to the University of Houston amid...
Tom Joyner back in NYC on Kiss-FM
He’s returning to Emmis’ WRKS-FM NY “Kiss-FM” after a seven-year absence on 2/7. His syndicated show was the station's morning program from 2001 to...
Any publicity is good publicity
WEUS-AM Orlando is all over TV news and local newspapers after Clear Channel Outdoor pulled down a billboard it had sold to promote afternoon...
Tampa-area tandem facing technical tribulations
University of Southern Florida decided to buy WSMR-FM in Sarasota FL from noncommercial religious broadcasting group Northwestern College in order to provide freedom to its WUSF-FM in Tampa-St. Petersburg. But engineering problems
Station fails to duck FCC phone fine
An employee of Rejoynetwork’s WAAW-FM in Williston SC interviewed employees of an airport by telephone, and the station broadcast the interviews without notifying them...
America's Radio News Network wraps up first week
After its first week debut, highlights are rolling in on content delivered up on the first of five live three-hour news blocks brought into...