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Chicago's talk WLS (890) faces a $44,000 FCC fine for lack of sponsor ID
In the Spring of 2009, then-Citadel-owned WLS ran a variety of programming supplied by Workers Independent News: 45 90" spots, 27 :15 promotional announcements, two 2-hour programs, and a single 1-hour program. The FCC determines that WLS failed to satisfy its sponsor identification requirements for 11 of the 90" spots, and is fining WLS the baseli…
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WWWZ, urban "Z93" Charleston, cuts ties with morning duo
More fallout from the Cumulus/Citadel merger, as Cumulus decides to cut loose the long-time morning duo of Tessa and Baby J at Urban WWWZ “Z93” Charleston. That's according to a posting by Baby J on Twitter. Read More
Three Urban PDs out among Cumulus/Citadel cuts
Among this week’s Cumulus/Citadel cuts were several long-time Urban PDs. James Alexander exits Cumulus-Mobile, where he was OM for Cumulus Urban WBLX (92.9) and Urban AC WDLT (98.3).
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VP/Programming Maureen Lesourd the latest cut for Cumulus Media syndication
Maureen Lesourd has been the VP/Programming and Distribution for Cumulus Media networks. Lesourd's time with Citadel and Cumulus prior to their merger goes back to 1981, when she was an AE and later Sales Manager for New York City's WPLJ-FM (95.5).
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Making Moves: Monday, October 31, 2011
Radio-Info.com hears from Merlin Media in Chicago, where longtime Minneapolis WCCO-AM (830) news anchor Jeff McKinney will be the new midday anchor for all-news WWWN-FM (101.1). Anchor Lise Dominique moves to a weekend anchor/weekday reporter role ...
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New heights for Pandora in September Internet Audio rankers from Triton
Pandora's growth was particularly noticeable in "Average Active Sessions", analogous to broadcast radio's AQH. Pandora showed with about 799,000 Active Sessions in August, and now 885,078 in September.
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Fresh Listen: New York’s AC/Hot AC Battle
CHR wars may get all the attention, but at the moment, a lot of the excitement in New York radio is the jockeying for position between the market’s Mainstream and Hot ACs. In fact, in many ways, the relationship between those three stations recalls an ’80s CHR battle.In recent months:CBS Radio’s WWFS (Fresh 102.7) has taken up the rapidly pro…
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July Internet Audio rankers from Triton Digital: Most players flat or down
Triton Digital supplies good reasons why #1-ranked Pandora and #10-ranked ESPN Radio might be down: "the code that measures audience and time spent listening was inadvertently omitted by Pandora" once again. That was also the case in June, and several times earlier this year.
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Cox-Birmingham confirms the launch of a new sports FM; would welcome Finebaum
While a Birmingham federal judge considers how much of Paul Finebaum's breach of contract suit against Citadel to make public, Cox confirms market rumors about its intentions to create a challenger to Citadel's all-sports WJOX-AM/FM (960/94.5). It would be called "The Zone", and would replace country "97.3 The Buck" WNCB (97.3). Read More
Making Moves: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Cox Media Group announced it has signed rocker WHPT “102.5 the Bone” PM drive program “The Cowhead Show” to an additional 3 year deal … CHR KPLV “Party 93.1” Las Vegas has a new name. It’s now using “All the Hits, 93.1” on the air, dropping the Party moniker … Clear Channel Radio Milwaukee/Madison, WI, names Dick Alpert its new … Read More
Boomer heads to CC's "Channel 96.1" WHQC Charlotte as PD
Clear Channel’s top 40 WHQC “Channel 96.1” Charlotte (which just changed its call letters from WIBT last week) has a new PD. Boomer, who is currently APD/middayer on co-owned CHR WZJZ “Y100” in Ft. Read More
Citadel is “still on target to close by the end of the year” with Cumulus
Citadel CEO Farid Suleman tells Monday's quarterly call that “we don’t see any problems” getting the deal closed. There are side-by-side September 15 shareholder meetings of both companies.
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Radio Remembers AJ Appleberry
AJ passed away unexpectedly in New Orleans over the weekend, while visiting family there. Appleberry was the OM of Citadel’s Lafayette, LA Urban/Urban AC duo, KRRQ “Q95.5” and KNEK “Magic 104.3.” He previously served as PD of Clear Channel Urban AC WYLD-FM New Orleans for many years.
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At Citadel, revenues drop 5% ahead of "end of year" merger with Cumulus
Three very large markets were responsible for most of the revenue drop at the station division: San Francisco, Atlanta and New York. Markets such as Chicago, Nashville, Providence, Tuscaloosa and Lafayette gained ground in the just-ended second quarter.
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Andy Parks returns to Washington, DC radio
The longtime host of "Grandy & Andy" on Washington, DC's WMAL (630) left the news/talk station in March 2010, ending his 25-year partnership with former Iowa Rep. Fred Grandy after the station decided to go in a different direction in mornings. Read More
Citadel shareholder Pentwater Capital has sold its 6% stake
There are signs in the SEC filing that selling its position in Citadel wasn't its first choice. Chicago-based Pentwater also holds warrants to buy 2.4 million shares of Citadel Class B common stock, but Citadel "refused to permit [Pentwater] to exercise its warrants." That was in April and based on that refusal, Pentwater deduced that Citadel also … Read More
Citadel's Chicago talker WLS-AM makes a pre-Rush lineup change
Cisco Cotto is out of the 9-11am weekday shift, replaced by Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft. GM Michael Damsky says adding the team of a sportscaster (Wolf) and former gubernatorial candidate (Proft) "turns up the excitement level” in that daypart. Read More
Josh Strickland becomes a PD of Saga in Asheville, NC
Strickland comes over to Saga Communications in North Carolina from Citadel, where he was PD of WFMK-FM (99.1) & WJIM-FM (97.5) in Lansing, Michigan and WHTS-FM (105.3) in Grand Rapids. Strickland now becomes PD of Saga's WOXL-FM "Mix" (96.5) & its adult alternative "98.1 The River", an FM translator fed by WOXL's HD2 signal.
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Pandora jumps in the latest Triton Digital Internet Audio rankers
Pandora, the newly-public Internet music service, is apparently past the tracking glitches that saw some of its mobile listening unreported earlier this year. Triton Digital's Webcast Metrics platform issues two main statistics, for Average Active Sessions (something like radio's AQH) and Session Starts.
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Making Moves: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Radio-Info confirms in Memphis that after a 24-year run, Clear Channel and classic rock WEGR-FM (102.7) PD Tim Spencer has left the building. No replacement named ...
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