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Entercom-Sacramento faces a $16.57 million jury verdict in the water-death case. • The economy grew 3.5% in the third quarter, setting off a wave of confidence on Wall Street. • Radio One CEO says his third quarter shows automotive business still stuck in reverse gear.
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“Another round of cost cuts”? • It’s company meeting time for Clear Channel GMs and programmers. • FCC recruits journalist Steven Waldman to forecast “the future of media.”
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Randall Mays is no longer President/CFO at Clear Channel. • Randall Mays takes a pay cut. • Radio “got much healthier in September.”
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Bonneville is still circling Citadel. • NYC’s “Pulse 87.7” loses on-air programming, and the death-watch starts. • The PPM comes to St. Louis, and J.C. Corcoran plus two others are out at “K-Hits.”
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In-car Internet access becomes more common, with GM adding Buick, GMC and Chevy. • Alpha’s “Mother ship” rock KUFO, Portland, is stunting. • The other half of KUPL, Portland’s morning show is gone, too.
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RAB’s Jeff Haley wants to know – is radio making the most of RDS and song tagging? • B.J. Harris comes clean about a cocaine problem that took him away from Tampa in 2001. • Tampa’s WFLZ declines to pay Jon Gosselin’s asking price for an appearance – 12 grand.
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Google – the music seller. • Even where Univision is encoding for the PPM – it’s not subscribing to Arbitron. • Brace for a heavy political year, says Wells Fargo – $250 million spent on radio in 2010.
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DirecTV acquires the Dan Patrick and Tony Bruno radio shows from the Content Factory. • In the latest quarter, Apple sold another 7.4 million iPhones with “sleeping” FMs in them. • Arbitron’s still very profitable – but it’s not used to reporting a quarterly drop in revenues.
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Atlanta’s got its groove thing going, on former Spanish “Viva 105.7.” • Spanish radio hasn’t been a bonanza for the big radio groups – especially now with PPM. • Carey Davis returns to the New York stage as station manager for Univision.
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The Media Rating Council held a conference call last Thursday – apparently about the PPM. • Citadel Media cuts senior executives Dave Van Dyke and Kevin Miller. • Grand Rapids’ urban AC WJNZ format will continue – but not on 1140, says a judge.
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Walt Disney Company prepares to sell six of its Radio Disney O&O's. • Performance Royalty bill sweeps out of a Senate committee. • Facelift in New York – Univision’s “La Kalle” becomes “X96.3.”
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“Serious, tragic mistakes” were made in the KDND water-death contest, says Entercom’s lawyer. • 10,000 Dow and a nice day for radio stocks – not a single one lost ground. • Did hell freeze over? Here’s an analyst giving a radio company (Entercom) a “buy.”
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FM coming to the iPhone? • Limbaugh, Soros, Olbermann – Sports sure makes for strange bedfellows. • First Lexington’s “Dusty Dan” had his house burglarized. Then he was busted on child porn charges.
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K-Love owner Educational Media Foundation is a very big business – $92 million in revenue last year. • How about K-Love’s debt? • Biggest paychecks at EMF.
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NFL Players union head doesn’t like Rush Limbaugh as a team owner. • Westwood reportedly laid off at least 15 salespeople on Friday. • Philly’s new “Fanatic 97.5” is an FM attack with two goals.
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