NAB holding town hall meeting with US radio on PRA issue
Unlike the closed door Radio Board meeting held 8/6/10 that produced the outlines of a possible Performance Rights Act deal with musicFirst/RIAA,
WFAN names Fantasy Phenom finalists
Sports Radio 66, WFAN’s “Fantasy Phenom Challenge” has narrowed its field to five finalists who will vie for the Grand Prize of a chance...
FM in cell phone battle goes mainstream
Until now you pretty much had to be a reader of RBR-TVBR or some other broadcast industry trade publication to know that a deal between NAB and RIAA
92.3 WIL announces acts for "Cornbread's Worlds Fair"
92.3 WIL and "The Cornbread Morning Show" announced the musical acts and artists who will be appearing at the upcoming "Cornbread's Worlds Fair" End...
Farid Suleman gets $43.5 million Citadel stock grant
RBR-TVBR FIRST: Citadel has registered its 2010 Equity Incentive Plan to reward company managers the shares are being doled out to the head honcho-CEO Farid Suleman is getting far and away the biggest stock grant. According to an SEC filing
United Stations signs Lex & Terry
United Stations Radio Networks announced that effective immediately the network will begin marketing The Lex & Terry Morning Show to both radio affiliates and...
Three-way sports deal in Denver
Mile High Sports Radio is still officially the “flagship radio partner” for the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets, but under a new three-year deal...
News analysis: Dr. Laura
Speaking with industry sources in the syndication arena, RBR-TVBR discovered Dr. Laura
NPR News names three Joan Kroc Fellows
NPR will welcome three journalism scholars from Mills College, Hamline University and Swarthmore College this fall as the 2010-2011 Joan B. Kroc Fellows.
Now in...
U. Houston approves KTRU buy; Rice students protest
Board members for the University of Houston approved the plan to acquire Rice University’s KTRU-FM by a 5-3 plurality, giving UH an FM duopoly...
Alan Berg
The Denver Post reports that Bruce Pierce, convicted in the 1984 murder of KOA-AM Denver talk host Alan Berg, has died in a federal...
98.7 Kiss FM jettisons D.L. Hughley Morning Show
Emmis Communications’ WRKS-FM NY and the D.L. Hughley Morning Show are parting ways due to reasons beyond the control of either party. "Despite our...
Dr Laura quits terrestrial radio heads to internet radio (video)
Top rated radio host and often controversial, from Talk Radio Networks (TRN), Dr. Laura Schlesinger is giving up commercial radio broadcasting
Jeff Smulyan says FM in cell phones is proven technology
Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan has been pushing for years to have FM receivers included in cell phones. He
KRKO-AM towers standing again
KRKO replaced two of the four towers needed to broadcast the nighttime signal 8/16 and 8/17. The 349 foot and 199 foot towers were...