Reason finds lack of reason when it comes to PRA
Top recording executives know that radio is still the key to selling music, says Reason Magazine – so forcing radio stations to pay for...
LPFM draws support in House subcommittee
Members of Congress, the FCC and consumer/watchdog groups all seemed to think making it easier to license LPFM stations by eliminating 3rd adjacency interference protection was a good idea – and
Beasley celebrates 25 years of Country in Philly
92.5 WXTU has been a Beasley Broadcast station since it went on the air in June 1984. This Saturday, Philly’s Country Station celebrates its...
CBS Radio/DC to flip 'JFK to Sports soon?
The Washington Post reports CBS Radio plans to take on Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder's Red Zebra Sports stations (of course, with Redskins Play-By-Play rights) in July by switching
Breaking: Reorg at RAB
Veterans George Hyde and Mike Mahone are out as CEO Jeff Haley reorganizes the Radio Advertising Bureau. Also, more staff reductions in Dallas. And...
Rush wins leadership poll
Gallup and USA Today collaborated on a poll with the goal of finding out who is seen as the current leader of the Republican...
What’s Clear Channel worth, anyway?
Simple question, but there’s no simple answer. Wachovia Capital Markets bond analysts Bishop Cheen and Davis Hebert have been running the
musicFIRST takes its case to the FCC
RIAA-backed musicFIRST says radio stations are preventing it from buying advertising to promote the Performance Rights Act, intimidating artists
MRC briefed the FCC again
As the FCC considers whether it should (or legally can) investigate Arbitron’s Portable People Meter (PPM), the organization which clearly does have some authority over PPM has been meeting
SIRIUS XM to air 24 Hours of Le Mans Live
SIRIUS XM will offer U.S. listeners live coverage of the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race on June 13-14 from the Circuit...
Howie Carr announces President of “Howie Nation”
After months of intense campaigning and online voting, the first-ever President of Howie Nation has been confirmed. Colonel David Hunt, a conservative military man...
Limbaugh wants to steer clear of GM
Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh is still rooting for President Obama to fail, and since the US now owns 60% of GM, he says that...
Brokers battle performance tax
Richard Kozacko, writing to Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on behalf of the National Association of Media Brokers, said that the proposed performance royalty put forth by John Conyers (D-MI) could have a devastating effect on radio
KCBS celebrates 100 years; Dan Mason comments
CBS Radio's all-News KCBS/San Francisco is gearing up to celebrate 100 years on the air. The station's first broadcast, as "San Jose Calling," was heard on June 11, 1909. The station later
S&P knocks Clear Channel down two notches
Citing “negative secular trends at Clear Channel’s radio sector,” Standard & Poor’s has cut the company’s debt rating two notches to CCC. S&P says...