Radio News

Cynthia Weeks has decided to part ways with the radio stations she controls in a small city to the east of the Odessa-Midland, Tex., market. Who's buying the properties? The answer lies in West Palm Beach and involves an individual working for a former Interep CFO.

In November 2023, Steve Kingston made good on rumors that the future of Adult Alternative WRNR would again involve a broadcast radio signal as he paid $75,000 for FM translator W260BM in Annapolis, Md., from Hope Christian Church of Marlton Inc. Now, Kingston has agreed to buy an Annapolis AM.

In December 2023, a "leadership restructuring" impacting the company's organizational operations began at iHeartMedia. Now, Streamline Publishing has learned that a significant shift in the company's advertising sales departments is underway.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey on Monday took new action designed to protect AM radio in electric vehicles. In doing so, he has singularly called out Tesla as a manufacturer of vehicles that are "unsafe in emergencies."

Audacy Inc., which last week formally filed FCC paperwork to become a debtor-in-possession of AM and FM radio stations, has released what the audio content creation and distribution company calls "a new series offering a bold look at the innovative shifts and trends redefining how we experience and interact with audio content."

"Radio continues to be a viable and vital channel for advertisers, as it has been for the past 100 years." That's how Marketron opens a just-released 2024 outlook for radio revenue in the U.S. In short, Marketron believes that "the outlook is bright for the most part, with radio’s resiliency shining through."

It's an FM known for "the greatest Country in the world," and serves rural Inyo County, including the U.S. 395 corridor towns of Big Pine and the station's city of license, Bishop. Its owner put the station up for sale, as well as its AM sibling. The stations have been purchased — by the woman who leads sales.

The purveyor of Christian-themed and conservative Talk content that in 2021 relocated to Irving, Tex., is selling its former Ventura County, Calif., headquarters, while entering a sale leaseback agreement. Salem Media Group continues to use the facility for broadcast studios and corporate needs.

FCC efforts to stop unlicensed radio activity have seen a significant step-up over the last year. These accomplishments were shared in an annual report to Congress submitted by the FCC on the positives the "Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act" has brought to patrolling the nation's airwaves.

In November 2021, the FCC opened a filing window for new noncommercial FM radio station applications. Six groups of mutually exclusive applications for new construction permits resulted from the filing window. Now, the Commission has moved forward with its near-final tentative selectees.

A group of radio stations that lease space on an American Tower-owned broadcast tower located at the top of Buckman Mountain Road in the Austin, Tex., neighborhood on the west bank of the Texas Colorado River are coping with broadcast issues that began early Saturday morning.

As RBR+TVBR first reported on January 23, 100kw Country WCNK-FM in Key West, Fla., is being sold by Bob Holladay, ending 10 years of ownership by Holladay's group for the station.  It turns out a second, larger transaction was consummated, too, with paperwork filed late Tuesday night with the FCC seeking its approval of that deal.

NPR has selected a seasoned technology expert to serve as its next President/Chief Executive Officer. It's an individual who since June 2022 has been a Member of the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board and in October 2023 took the role of CEO of Web Summit.

To some, he's remembered as the host of the syndicated Saturday evening Top 40 program "Open House Party." From June 2012 through November 2021, he owned and operated four radio stations on Cape Cod. Now, John Garabedian is reentering radio station ownership, thanks to the estate of the late Bob Bittner.

A historically Black college based in tiny Marshall, Tex., has entered into a Consent Decree with the FCC's Media Bureau to resolve issues arising from the Commission's review of the license renewal of the school's broadcast radio station. In particular, the Public File Rule wasn't adhered to by the Wiley College-owned FM.