Final tally puts radio revenues down 2% for 2007

Total radio industry revenues last year were 21.3 billion, according to the final numbers calculated for the RAB by Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co.

Small markets are the big place to be

From Citadel and other companies we have been hearing the woes of big market radio stations. But there is a very different story to...

Billy Bush signs with Westwood One

Westwood One announced the launch of The Billy Bush Show featuring Access Hollywood's co-host, Billy Bush. The evening talk and music show, produced by...

Try, try again…

Now that Arbitron has officially failed in its initial attempt to get PPM accredited by the MRC in Philadelphia and New York, it just...

Bouvard touts PPM improvement

Back from vacation, Arbitron President, Sales & Marketing Pierre Bouvard was working the phones yesterday

No dropping dead on drop dead date

Either XM or Sirius had the right to walk away from their long-pending merger as of Saturday, March 1st and analysts had asked both...

Myron Cope dead at 79

Long-time Pittsburgh Steelers radio color commentator Myron Cope has died of respiratory failure at age 79. Among other things, Cope was known as the...

Revenues fall for Cumulus, but pacings up

Cumulus Media reported that Q4 revenues were down 3.8% to 84.4 million, primarily due to a 2.8 million drop in political advertising from the...

Talk is Over, Time to Walk

2007 ended badly for Citadel Broadcasting, with pro forma revenues down 5.1% in Q4 to 245.3 million, so CEO Farid Suleman focused in his...

Latest PPM news fires up Bob Neil

The Cox Radio CEO Bob Neil suggests that the big players in New York need to stand up to Arbitron, perhaps by pulling the...

PPM denied accreditation in New York & Philly

Arbitron confirms that the Media Rating Council denied accreditation of its PPM local ratings service in both New York and Philadelphia in January. What’s...

Format flips in DC—we don’t need two Smooth Jazz HD2’s

Clear Channel’s WASH-FM DC launched a 24 hour Smooth Jazz stream on its  HD-2 Channel Friday (it was Love Songs). Meanwhile, Heritage Smooth Jazz...

WBLI-FM host suspended for community-bashing

NY Newsday/AP reports a morning drive personality on WBLI-FM Long Island has been suspended for making a disparaging remark about the community of Mastic....

Time to get angry

“I am mad. I am mad at being abused and everybody with a light attitude looking at us and saying are you going to...

Univision begins divestitures in Albuquerque

On the same day it announced the sale of its music division, Univision began selling off some non-core radio assets. Allen Shaw’s Centennial Broadcasting...