Cumulus wants its stock back
After dropping plans to go private, Cumulus Media still wants to have less of its stock in public hands. The company’s board of directors...
Transactions: 5-23-08
$15K KDIL-AM CP Dillon MY from Scott Powell and Amy Meredith to Maria E. Juarez. 5K earnest money, balance in cash at closing. CP...
Q1 2008 comes in 5% short
Radio revenue results during the first quarter of 2008 were nothing to write home about, according to the latest Radio Advertising Bureau/Miller Kaplan Arase...
It has to be more than “You wanna buy a spot?”
It appears the buzz word in radio today is LOCAL. Bill Stakelin has increased his local sales staff. SAGA’s Ed Christian recently wrote that...
How to make Bob Neil shut up
If that’s what Arbitron wants to do, the CEO of Cox Radio revealed how to do it in an exclusive interview with RBR/TVBR.
Mason states support for PPM and posting
CBS Radio CEO Dan Mason struck back at the ad campaign by Cox Radio and Inner City that calls for Arbitron to get MRC...
Proud to be an American
Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, host of Univision Radio’s syndicated Piolín por la Mañana show, will be one of 18,000 people taking the oath of US...
Top of the heap
Beasley Broadcast Group has named Beverly Pone Overall Winner of the company’s President’s Club, making her Beasley’s top sales executive for the 2007 calendar...
Mexico authorizes HD Radio 200 miles south of border
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission (CoFeTel) announced it is authorizing radio stations within 320 kilometers (200 miles) from its border with the US to begin...
Cox and Inner City demand PPM get accreditation
“Would you fly on an airplane that wasn’t FAA certified?” Cox Radio and ICBC Broadcast Holdings (better known as Inner City) asked yesterday in...
SBS also gearing up to fight PPM
Spanish Broadcasting System announced that it has retained a strategic communications and consulting firm, MirRam Group, to help SBS educate the public about the...
KNX-AM sets gas giveaway
Look for a traffic jam this morning in Los Angeles – even more so than usual. CBS Radio’s KNX-AM is going to pump gasoline...
The Kathleen Show rolls out longer format
The Kathleen Show, a nationally syndicated radio program about better and healthier living, making changes, and rattling some cages, announced plans today to roll...
A network grows in the hearts of Latino Sports fans
When ESPN Deportes launched as a 24-hour network on January 7, 2004, the event culminated a series of efforts over several years to serve...
ESPN Deportes Radio gets started
In 2003, ABC Radio Networks and ESPN teamed up to produce Spanish language radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, League Championship Series...