Programming execs featured in NAB Super Session

The NAB Radio Show will include a session featuring some of the top names in radio programming. Held Thursday, September 24, the "Group PDs...

MMTC fighting PRA “civil rights” claim

Seeking to avoid endorsements of the Performance Rights Act (PRA) like that adopted recently by the NAACP, the Minority Media and Telecommunications

Restructured Westwood One claims to be gaining transaction

Revenues fell 16.7% to $83.7 million for Westwood One in Q2 – a quarter which saw the company complete its financial restructuring.

Radio revenues down 20% for Clear Channel

Clear Channel Communications (and parent CC Media Holdings) no longer conduct quarterly Wall Street conference calls, so CEO Mark Mays was spared having to...

Citadel revenues fell 17.9% in Q2

Compared to its peers, that really wasn’t such a bad showing for Citadel Broadcasting. Both the radio group and Citadel Media Networks, the former ABC Radio Networks, posted revenue declines

Sirius XM deadline extended again

The FCC still hasn’t made a decision on how to implement the requirement that Sirius XM have 4% of its channels programmed by minority...

FCC wants comments on musicFirst petition

The FCC has opened a formal docket proceeding (No. 09-143) to seek comments on the petition from musicFirst seeking a declaratory ruling that radio...

KFWB goes Talk in LA

CBS Radio is flipping News KFWB-AM LA to Talk starting 9/8. The lineup will add Dr. Laura Schlessinger (just signed with TRN), from longtime...

Breaking: CBS Portland cluster sold

Larry Wilson has struck again, adding CBS Radio's four-station cluster in Portland, OR to the combo he previously bought from Paul Allen. The Oregonian...

Big shareholder pleased with Sirius XM

Liberty Media Corp. sank hundreds of millions of dollars into Sirius XM this year and pulled the satellite radio company back from the brink...

WFUV celebrates 40th Anniversary of Woodstock

Fordham University’s WFUV (90.7 FM, wfuv.org) will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival with special programs and features from...

SIRIUS XM to launch "The Woodstock Channel"

…to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair held at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York in 1969. The...

The unconstitutionality of PRA

The US Constitution addresses copyright law, and it codifies the protection of intellectual property for the benefit of the creator, whether that person is known as author, poet, composer or inventor. It says

Subscriptions fall again for Sirius XM

The subscriber count for Sirius XM was down at the end of Q2 from both Q1 and from Q2 a year ago, even as revenues improved and CEO Mel Karmazin declared that 2009 cash flow will exceed

Saga CEO draws line on cost cuts

“Not on my watch,” said Saga CEO Ed Christian of making even deeper cuts just to improve cash flow margins. Saga reported same station revenues down 16.3%, with both radio and TV lower