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Tampa's "Bone" moves Fester to mornings with Bubba (with update)
Fester has replaced Spice on Bubba the Love Sponge’s morning
show, originating from WHPT Tampa (The Bone), as Spice segues to nights.
This, according to a tip on the Radio-Info.com Tampa Board here.
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Making Moves, Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Billy Bush Show has secured a dozen new affiliates over the past month via its syndication alliance with Dial Global. After recently debuting on WSTR (Star 94) Atlanta, the show launched last week on KFRH (104.3 Now) Las Vegas (1-5 p.m.), KREV (92.7 The Revolution) San Francisco (6-10 p.m.), and KRCK (97-7) Palm Springs (6-10 p.m.).
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Cox confirms the lineup for Monday launch of Tampa's all-talk “Bone”
The countdown is on, literally: the "Bone" site has a countdown clock here.
One poster on the Tampa Board of Radio-Info.com thought he'd solved the
mystery of the lineup around 4pm Thursday, and he was right.
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Tampa's rock "Bone" shifts to talk April 23: holds onto Bubba and Bone moniker
Cox Radio’s classic rock WHPT (102.5 The Bone) Sarasota/Tampa will flip to talk Monday, April 23. The station will remain the flagship for Bubba the Love Sponge in morning drive, and The Cowhead Show remains in afternoons—as will The Bone and Real Raw Radio monikers.
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Bubba TLS adds Detroit's "Bone" to Tampa, Charleston, Fort Meyers affils
On the heels of Bubba the Love Sponge re-upping a multi-year contract with Cox Media Group’s rock WHTP (102.5 FM The Bone) Tampa, Bubba soaks up another market: Detroit. The station is Tim Martz-run modern rock translator-driven W232CA/107.5 WGPR-HD3 (94.3 The Bone). Read More
Bubba the Love Sponge stays with Cox's "Bone" in Tampa
"Bone" WHPT owner Cox Media Group says Bubba's morning show has been #1 with men and adults since its return to terrestrial radio in January 2008, and that Bubba has just renewed his deal with the rock station. The personality himself says "After weighing my options and much consideration, I am happy to return to the Bone....Cox believed in me when…
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Orlando’s Shannon Burke joins "Bubba's Army" on RadioIO
The Central Florida Radio site says Shannon Burke’s last day on Orlando-market WEUS (810) is Friday. From there, the site says he will do afternoon drive for the online RadioIO, on the same lineup with Tampa-based Bubba the Love Sponge.
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Ocala Raceway'sd new owner – Bubba the Love Sponge
Saying he wanted to "give back to the racers," Florida-based syndicated radio host Bubba the Love Sponge Clem announced he has led a group of investors and bought Ocala Speedway. Located in Ocala, Florida, it is the oldest racetrack in Florida, starting out as a dirt oval in 1952 and growing to become a home for a number of events, including monste…
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Making Moves: Friday, March 18, 2011
San Francisco's talk KKGN-AM "Green" (960) moves the syndicated Norman Goldstein from overnights to afternoons as the replacement for Karel Bouley, who Radio-Info previously reported has moved across town to KGO-AM (810) ... New York City's WKTU-FM (103.5) Cubby & Cindy morning show producer Matt Bosso is leaving for a job outside of radio.
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Making Moves: Monday, March 7, 2011
Atlanta's Top-40 "Wild 105.7" WWVA-FM midday DJ Jonathan Maverick is MIA, and Radio-Info confirms he's "no longer with the company." No replacement has been named - Discuss it ... The home of the Boll Weevil monument has a change in mornings, as Dothan-market country WDJR-FM, Enterprise (96.9) parts ways with morning host Brett Mason, leaving Melod…
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Bubba the Love Sponge says talent is taking big pay cuts at Sirius XM
In his case, he tells Radio-Info.com that the satcaster asked him to accept an 80% cut to stay on "Howard 101." Bubba the Love Sponge blames Sirius XM for paying big-bucks to what he calls "Hollywood people." Oprah Winfrey is at $18 million and Martha Stewart get $7 million annually. Bubba says tells the Hollywood Reporter "They paid an exorbitant … Read More
Bubba the Love Sponge is off Sirius XM, to join the online RadioIO.com
Bubba's December 31 Tweets included this message: "As of midnight tonight, my name and all content will be removed from Sirius/xm." He previously wrote "I always had a glimmer of hope. But not after the phone call bean just got ten min ago." It's important to note that Bubba's terrestrial-station morning show syndication is unaffected. Read More
So far, Bubba the Love Sponge hasn't been renewed by Sirius
The Tampa-based Bubba has taken to re-tweeting posts from fans who say they'd cancel their satellite radio subscriptions if Bubba the Love Sponge doesn't return to the "Howard 101" channel. Two worrisome signs fro the fans: Bubba (Todd Clem) is saying publicly that Sirius hasn't reached out to him to discuss a new contract, even after renewing Howa…
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Making Moves: Monday, October 18, 2010
Longtime Boston-area WBOQ-FM (104.9) DJ Jacky Ankeles, who was cut loose after more than two decades in May, resurfaces up the highway in middays on Newburyport’s WNBP-AM (1450) – Discuss it … The syndicated Bubba the Love Sponge debuts today on Charleston, South Carolina’s alternative WYBB-FM (98.1) in mornings. You can listen to “98-X” …
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Bubba the Love Sponge files a lawsuit over a sex tape
Tampa’s Bubba the Love Sponge Clem has filed a suit against porn star Devon James, alleging that she’s trying to peddle a sex tape, for which Bubba claims he is owed some profits. TampaBay.com says back in March, James appeared on Bubba’s show to discuss her alleged tryst with golf star Tiger Woods.
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S&P places Sirius XM on Credit Watch for a possible upgrade
The move by Standard & Poor’s late Thursday suggests they may be planning to give Sirius XM an upgrade on it debt, by placing the company on Credit Watch. Standard & Poor’s says the move “stemmed from lower debt leverage and increased EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization,” at Sirius XM.
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Could both Howard Stern & Bubba the Love Sponge bolt Sirius XM?
This was a question raised by Kurt Hanson’s Radio and Internet Newsletter. Radio-Info has previously reported that Howard Stern could leave Sirius XM.
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Greaseman benched at Jacksonville's "Rock 105" WFYV
The inventive storyteller “Greaseman” Doug Tracht returned to the market on the Cox Radio classic rocker in the Fall of 2008. Many locals had heard about his earlier time there at the original “Ape”, WAPE. Read More
Making Moves: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Leesburg, Florida’s WLBE-AM (790), northwest of Orlando, remains off the air after a lightning strike damaged its tower and transmitter. The talk station also hires O.K.
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Is a syndicated TV show in store for Bubba the Love Sponge?
It appears Tribune Broadcating is looking to get back into syndicated TV talk, and as Radio-Info reported on Wednesday, they already have plans for a pilot hosted by Cincinnati’s WLW-AM (700) host Bill Cunningham. Vocalo.org’s Robert Feder reports that Tampa-based Bubba the Love Sponge is also going to be spending time in Chicago sometime in June, … Read More
