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Country KSCS Dallas PD Dave Kelly exits
Country veteran programmer Dave Kelly is leaving Cumulus Country
KSCS Dallas to move back to Nashville and be closer to his family. Kelly
also oversees country WKDF Nashville and WGKX Memphis for Cumulus.
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Fox Sports Radio launches on two Salt Lake City stations: Here's how
Fox Sports Radio is added to a pair of just-sold Salt Lake City stations. Here’s how they made it to the goalpost: The Larry H. Read More
Cox makes repeat bid to buy out Cumulus sports talker Paul Finebaum
With eight months left on the contract of Birmingham sports talker Paul Finebaum with Cumulus-owned sports WJOX-FM (94.5), the Birmingham Business Journal reports that his likely future employer—Cox Media Group—has offered to buy out his contract. The Biz Journal says that Cox is renewing an offer it previously made, while Finebaum and Cumulus cont…
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Knoxville's Mike Hammond finds his next job crosstown, at Journal's "Q93"
In March, Hammond was cut as programmer/personality by Cumulus country WIVK (107.7) after 38 years. Now he's on-board at Journal Broadcast Group's country "Q93" WCYQ, Karns, Tennessee, as PD, effective immediately.
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Cumulus, for its all-news outlet in Atlanta, applies to change frequency
Cumulus asks the FCC for permission to switch WYAY from 106.7 to 106.5 and to re-license from Gainesville, Georgia to Sandy Springs. The new signal will drop from a full Class C to a C1, but will cover many more people, from a central Atlanta location.
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Cumulus reveals how it will accommodate two new FMs in Pensacola
To make room, it will change city of license, and nothing else, for an existing FM in the nearby market of Mobile, Alabama. That is possible under the FCC's sometimes arcane local ownership/signal overlap rules. Read More
Gil Gross takes PM drive slot at Clear Channel talker KKSF, San Francisco/910
Gross is one of the talents who have been filling in for Gene Burns,
following Burns' stroke last December. Now Clear Channel operations
manager Don Parker hands the permanent 4-7pm job to the veteran Gil
Gross, who joined the roster after Cumulus cut a number of staffers last
year at news/talk KGO (810).
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The Rush Limbaugh protests cost Cumulus "a couple of million bucks" in Q1
CEO Lew Dickey tells the Cumulus quarterly call that the pullback by advertisers on Cumulus-owned stations that carry Rush amounted to about a 1% hit on its total revenue of roughly $245 million in the quarter. Dickey says the bite will be about the same in second quarter, but he says "June is pretty much back to normal." Cumulus uses the Premiere-…
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Chris Wheat exits as market manager for Cumulus-Indianapolis
Indy veteran Chris Wheat took over the Cumulus operation in September 2007, after a long run at the cross-town Clear Channel cluster. Cumulus acquired its stations in Indianapolis from Susquehanna, and the cluster today is country WFMS (95.5), classic hits WJJK (104.5) and CHR "i94 Hits" WRWM. Read More
March Triton Digital Internet Audio Rankers show growth for Pandora, CC
Pandora's "Average Active Sessions" number grew nearly 100,000 from February, while "Session Starts" jumped form 524 million to 610 million. Active Sessions were also up again for Clear Channel, which continues marketing its iHeartRadio mobile app.
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"Aww DAM it's over" - Cumulus unplugs rock "Dam" in Kansas City
K.C.'s “103.7 the Dam” rocker is gone from a translator, replaced by a simulcast of Cumulus talker KCMO (710). The “Dam”, simulcasting the HD2 signal of Cumulus-owned KCFX (101.1), has consistently pulled between a 1.0 and a 1.2 with age 6+ AQH share in recent Arbitron PPMs.
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Townsquare and Cumulus swap 65 stations in 13 markets
Townsquare Media is acquiring the Cumulus clusters in these 11 markets: Augusta-Waterville (Maine), Bangor, Binghamton, Bismarck, Grand Junction, Killeen-Temple, New Bedford, Odessa-Midland, Presque Isle, Sioux Falls and Tuscaloosa. Cumulus gains the Townsquare Media clusters in Bloomington, Illinois and Peoria, and there's $116 million in cash inv… Read More
Cumulus to launch its Atlanta all-newser in mid-May, says John Dickey
In the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Cumulus finally confirms a week of rumors about the replacement of "Atlanta's classic hits" WYAY (106.7) with a dedicated all-news format. Dickey tells the paper "As big a city as we've got and as diverse and cosmopolitan a community, not to have an all-news product creates a huge opportunity.
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Atlanta’s all-news FM looks closer: there’s a staff meeting at classic hits WYAY
That news about Cumulus-owned WYAY (106.7) is reported by the Journal Constitution’s Rodney Ho, who says it's an all-hands meeting called for today. Rodney Ho also fills in the names of former CNNRadio staffers who’ve been hired by Cumulus: Greg Black, Maria Boynton, Andy Rose, Andy Flick, Michelle Wright and Jackie Howard. Read More
In the March PPMs, Arbitron adds back some Cumulus stations in three markets
Arbitron announces today that three of the markets released yesterday (4/16) in its March 2012 PPM results were inadvertently missing some stations. Arbitron states: “We have discovered that the subscriber list in the new topline ratings applications was not complete for Atlanta, San Francisco and Dallas.” Radio-Info.com is in the process of updati… Read More
With the March PPMs, Arbitron gets tough with Cumulus & other non-subscribers
From today's TRI Newsletter: We’ve officially entered the era of “subscribing stations only” – with Arbitron withholding even age 6+ AQH topline results for stations like San Francisco’s sports KNBR (a 2.5 share in February) and Dallas-market country “Wolf” KPLX (a 4.1 share). It appears the former Susquehanna/Cumulus Media Partners stations are “o… Read More
Cumulus debuts a new "iHits" CHR in Shreveport; segues to AC in Minneapolis
In Shreveport, LA, Hot AC KQHN (97.3) has flipped to Top 40. The Cumulus station started using the “I97.3” moniker today (April 13) at noon when the official changeover took place.
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Lew Dickey became the $20 Million Man in 2011
From today's TRI Newsletter: The just-issued proxy for Cumulus Media’s May 8 annual meeting reveals that CEO Lew Dickey’s total compensation for 2011 was $19,889,797. That total is mostly due to the option awards worth a potential $15.2 million.
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Mark Davis, 18-year personality at Dallas news/talk WBAP, has left – maybe
The Star-Telegram says in several online updates that "the Mark Davis Show" is still on WBAP (820/96.7) and that today's host Ben Ferguson says he's filling in for Mark. Davis himself messaged to the Star-Telegram that "the story for today is not departure, but impasse."Here's the message Mark Davis posted, earlier today: "My contract with WBAP's n…
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All 6 Cumulus stations in Dallas switched to marketwide simulcast storm coverage
At first news/talk WBAP-AM/FM (820/96.7) and talk KLIF (570) went with continuous coverage. Then "shortly after that," operations manager Tyler Cox tells Radio-Info.com, "the remaining stations in the Cumulus cluster - KTCK/1310AM, KSCS/96.3, KPLX/99.5 and KLIF-FM/93.3 - joined with us to create a six-station simulcast reaching countless numbers of… Read More
