Bonneville St. Louis gets Rams deal
Bonneville St. Louis Radio Group recently entered into a two-year deal with the St. Louis Rams for broadcast radio rights for the NFL franchise...
CC Radio Miami launches “93.9-FM MIA”
Another Smooth Jazz bites the dust—this time heritage WLVE-FM. CC Radio Miami on Christmas Day launched Rhythmic AC 93.9-FM MIA, “Move to the Music”....
They’re turning off HD in Washington, DC
Well, this time it’s not an anomaly or a digital exciter glitch—at least not that we can see. For weeks now the Washington, DC market has been turning off its HD Radio signals en masse
Clear Channel completes tender for bonds
The tender offers expired on December 23rd and Clear Channel Communications has bought back a considerable chunk of its public bonds. The company had...
Metro Traffic and TrafficLand partner
Westwood One/Metro Traffic announced a multi-year partnership with TrafficLand to combine TrafficLand's 24/7 live traffic video systems (which aggregate nearly 5,000 traffic cameras) with...
Moody’s goes negative on Sirius XM
As Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin works to refinance nearly a billion bucks worth of debt in 2009, he’ll have to do so with...
ESPN Radio adds 1230 kHz in Atlanta
ESPN Radio 1230 AM, the sister station of ESPN Radio’s current Atlanta affiliate WCNN-AM 680, will launch today. New ESPN Radio 1230’s carriage of...
Westwood adds Fred Thompson
As we mentioned last week (12/19/08 MBR), Westwood One announced the debut of The Fred Thompson Show on March 2, 2009. The show will...
FedEx will not advertise in the 2009 Super Bowl
Fed Ex Director of Advertising Steve Pacheco posted the following statement on the company’s website, as part of major cost cutting moves in place at...
NFL may not renew with Westwood One
SportsBusiness Journal reports for the first time in 22 years, the NFL is considering selling its national radio rights to a company other than Westwood One: “The league allowed an exclusive
Barefoot in Indy
Former Indiana University basketball coach Dan Dakich is doing his daily radio show on Emmis’ WFNI-AM “1070 The Fan” Indianapolis barefoot through January 17th to...
November results plumb new depths
Business has been wheezing along all year. The Radio Advertising Bureau/Miller Kaplan and Arase reports been an unbroken string of bottom line numbers presented...
Bubba re-signs with Sirius
Bubba the Love Sponge has re-upped with SIRIUS XM Radio. The Bubba the Love Sponge Show airs Monday through Thursday from 3:00 pm to...
WBMX-FM adds new morning show
WBMX-FM/Mix 98-5 Boston announced that the Karson & Kennedy Show will be joining the station in morning drive beginning on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009...
CBS Radio to syndicate Mike Smerconish?
They’ve already added him to 1580 in DC, but CBS Radio WPHT-AM The Big Talker morning drive star Mike Smerconish might just be set...