MIW names 2011 mentees
The Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio (MIWs) Group has announced the mentees chosen to participate in the 2011 Mildred Carter Mentoring Program:
Keriann Worley,...
Stations get warning letter for selling promotional tickets
Green Bay, WI-based PMI Entertainment Group has sent out a warning letter 1-18 to several dozen Green Bay, central and lower Wisconsin and upper Michigan...
NFL bars local airing of Packers game
It’s a simple as guaranteeing advertisers the audience you’ve promised them. But this made a bit of news in Sheboygan, WI: When the Green...
Lazer 103.3 readies "Morning Moose Downhill Derby"
Des Moines Radio Group’s KAZR-FM Lazer 103.3’s Morning Moose has offered up a challenge to listeners: Lazer’s “Morning Moose Downhill Derby” hits the slopes...
British radio syndication killing off local talent
A report from the United Kingdom says that radio survived video just fine, contrary to the ominous prediction of the Buggles back in 1979...
Hundreds protest KUSF sale on campus
Angry protesters filled a University of San Francisco (USF) hall to its 500-seat capacity Wednesday night, with others left outside, as supporters of KUSF-FM spared with USF President Father Stephen Privett over the shutdown of the broadcast signal
Hubbard growing in radio after decades on the sidelines
Ginny (Hubbard) Morris told RBR-TVBR.. "in terms of the industry I think we now know that what we all experienced a couple of years ago was related to
Hubbard-Bonneville deal heats up the station trading market
RBR-TVBR Observation: $505M for four-market 17-station deal - the biggest in years. Key intangibles of this business transaction: Staff, infrastructure
ESPN getting new Omaha affiliate
Just a day after NRG Media’s Omaha Sports Talker 1620 The Zone announced it would switch from ESPN Radio to FOX Sports, Journal Broadcast...
Entercom pitches its new San Francisco Bay simulcast
Entercom Communications is calling its simulcast of K-Fox “the first classic rock superstation in the Bay Area.” The dual signals will fire up at...
Father Duane Stenzel dead at 83
Radio Maria reports the death of Father Duane Stenzel, who had been Director of the Catholic radio network since its founding in 2000. The...
Bonneville selling four markets to Hubbard
RBR-TVBR observation: What
Damage control effort underway in San Francisco shuffle
RBR-TVBR observation: Same fight, different city. Petition to deny pending at the FCC claims the format change undermines localism
CRS renews unemployment rate
In a bow to the tough economy, Country Radio Broadcasters last year offered a special $99 rate for CRS 2010 to unemployed broadcasters. The...
WFUV fundraiser features first records
Here’s a unique fundraiser: Fordham University’s WFUV-FM NYC (90.7 FM, wfuv.org) has been asking artists, station hosts and its listeners to name the first...