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Doug Stephan's side of the Armstrong & Getty phone-bit incident - "A mistake"

How did a listener phone call made to the KSTE, Sacramento-based Armstrong & Getty show wind up on Doug Stephan’s syndicated “Good Day” show? Stephan explains that he does a Talk Radio Count Down show before his regular “Good Morning” show, and in that show he regularly plays clips from many other radio and TV shows – with ... Read More

about 1 hour ago

An Ohio DJ gets the finger from - LeBron James

WHBC This time, what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. Canton, Ohio WHBC-FM “Mix” (94.1) afternoon drive DJ Fig was vacationing in Las Vegas when he spotted someone he recognized. Read More

about 1 hour ago

Long Island's WLIU faces a $500,000 shortfall and silence

WLIU Peconic Public Broadcasting, which recently bid over $850,000 to buy non-commercial WLIU-FM (88.3) in Southampton, New York, has yet to raise the full purchase price. The New Yo... Read More

about 2 hours ago

Radio One's Cathy Hughes: Singer Dionne Warwick is a "lobbyist"

cathy hughes The war of words between singer Dionne Warwick saying radio stations should pay the musical artists and Radio One founder Cathy Hughes is escalating. Warwick recently wrote an editorial, calling Hughes' Radio One “one of those Wall Street rip off firms where executives pay themselves big bonuses while they rip us off and throw their worker... Read More

about 6 hours ago

Cumulus says political dollars are starting to happen – Q2 revenue up 5.8%

Cumulus Some other groups have been saying that political ads have been relatively slow to start, but Cumulus, reporting its second quarter this morning, says its 5.8% increase in broadcast revenues was due to improved national business, Internet-related r... Read More

about 9 hours ago

Radio Disney reports record ratings, nationwide

The kids-and-moms network benefits from the age 6 starting point that Arbitron uses for its PPM ratings. The standard beginning age for diarykeepers, outside the PPM markets, is 12. Read More

about 9 hours ago

California talkhosts Armstrong & Getty claim Doug Stephan ripped off their calls

From this morning’s TRI Newsletter: A fan of Armstrong & Getty’s emails them to say “I happened to be up early this morning and I had my radio on the [syndicated] Doug Stephan Show on 910 KNEW when I was surprised to hear a caller in to the show that sounded surprisingly similar to ... Read More

about 15 hours ago

Voting for the National Radio Hall of Fame ends this weekend

There are four nominees each in four categories, and it’s also Howard Stern’s fourth time being nominated. The “King of All Media” has previously sneered at the Chicago-based Hall but seems to have taken a different attitude this time. Read More

about 16 hours ago

WSM-FM Nashville’s New Morning Show Debuts Today

Cumulus’ country WSM-FM (95.5 the Wolf) Nashville has finalized it new “Wake Up With the Wolf Show” morning team, which debuts today (July 29). As first reported here July 24, WTRS-FM Ocala, Fla., morning co-host Beth Brightwell joins current mornin... Read More

about 16 hours ago

CBS Phoenix Taps Crystal Cardenas For Marketing and Promotion

Cardenas joins CBS Radio’s Phoenix cluster as director of marketing and promotion, effective Aug. 9. Read More

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