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A 37-year Arbitron winning streak of KMOX ends with the first St. Louis PPMs. • “106.5 The Arch is now the #1 adult hits radio station in America.” • Rush Limbaugh has to win over NFL players who might be working for him at the Rams.
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Jim Robinson’s leaving as President of Citadel Media. • Another former Citadel exec is joining Larry Wilson at Alpha. • September PPM stories – The Classic Hits format continues to tear up the competition.
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How are radio and TV station websites doing? • Cutbacks at ABC News Radio, behind the scenes. • Also gone at ABC News Radio – veteran managers Peter Salinger, Robert Garcia.
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FCC Chairman Genachowski says “the policy fight over net neutrality will be a ‘Jungleland’ out there.” • Pittsburgh’s future black news/talk station will be on WPYT at 660. • Detroit is Amp’d up with a new CBS CHR.
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Another big-market smooth jazz station goes – Detroit’s WVMV (98.7). • Detroit is the next CHR battleground between CBS and Clear Channel. • Pittsburgh’s Eddie Edwards Sr. calls a 4pm press conference – and apparently buys a station.
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Radio just for school kids is shutting down. • Kansas radio executive stole from his employer to buy lottery tickets – but won big. • NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” host Scott Simon needs to do more research about salaries.
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If brokers had a patron saint for 2009, it would be “St. Larry” Wilson. • Alpha Broadcasting closes on its $40 million deal with CBS in Portland. • “Obama Radio” is Cox Radio’s stunt at WPUP-FM, Athens (100.1).
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Pain continues at Westwood One, with new fourth quarter paycuts and furloughs. • Short-term pain, possible 2010 gain for people at Westwood. • Some top public broadcasting executives are still making top dollar, during the recession.
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Where’s the support that local radio needs? • FCC Chairman Genachowski aims to convene a PPM “roundtable.” • FCC Republican Commissioner Rob McDowell asks – Where’s the new minority tax certificate?
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Glenn Beck visits his home town and says Americans should stop “tearing each other apart.” • The Skotdals face the threat of more vandalism at their Snohomish County transmitter site. • Pittsburgh’s loss of all three urban stations prompts a letter to the FCC from a local black group.
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“Those of us who lag behind will be left behind in the new digital world” – but what’s the resistance about? • Next year’s NAB Radio Show will be in Washington, D.C. • Cape Cod station and website owner Sandab files for Chapter 11 protection.
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“Welcome to the meeting of Radio Lovers Anonymous.” • “2009 will be the worst advertising market since 1975.” • “Radio has been losing share of advertising dollars since 2002.”
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Day 1 - Radio comes to the NAB Show looking for answers. • The agenda-setter is this morning’s Dickstein Shapiro session. • Next month’s NAB European Radio Conference in Athens is canceled.
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Joyner got cancelled by Clear Channel- Chicago in March – now Reach Media sues. • Genachowski’s “net neutrality” speech carries two new principles. • The FCC’s two Republicans say it shouldn’t write net neutrality policy “based merely on anecdotes.”
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Citadel “likely” faces a pre-packaged Chapter 11. • Radio’s got a big stake in the “net neutrality” policy to be proposed today by the FCC. • Norfolk’s “ESPN 1310” moves to FM, bumping gospel “Star.”
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