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ESPN Radio scores national broadcast rights for USC Trojans football
ESPN Radio and the University of Southern California have signed a multi-year pact in which the net gains exclusive national broadcast rights for all home Trojans football games. This is ESPN Radio’s first nationally exclusive broadcasting agreement with a college football program, and only the second such agreement in the industry, alongside Notre…
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Cumulus moves its sports FM in Myrtle Beach, splits off AM to Fox Sports
As of Monday, March 5, Cumulus transfers the ESPN-based "Team" format from its Class A signal at 93.9 (WJXY) to the more powerful Class C3 signal at 100.3 (WSEA). That bumps CHR "i100FM" WSEA of its frequency.
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Making Moves: Friday, January 6, 2012
Good Karma Broadcasting’s WAUK-AM (540 ESPN) Milwaukee drops ESPN Radio's "The Herd with Colin Cowherd," which has aired 9-11 a.m. weekdays since 2009.
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Lincoln Financial's Denver stations shuffle their sports/talk lineups
Lincoln Financial Media's "Fan 104.3" KKFN-FM will be bolstering their local programing with the addition of new "live and local" morning and midday shows. Starting Monday, January 2, when they their ESPN Radio affiliation goes elsewhere in the market, the syndicated Mike & Mike will be replaced by Joel Klatt and longtime KKFN host Mike Evans for m…
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Making Moves: Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Longtime Cincinnati WLW-AM (700) newsman Bill Bangert is leaving, taking his family on a year-long trip around the world, with stops in Asia, Europe, Africa, South and Central America ... CBS Radio announces that Neil Salvage will be their new Director of Digital Sales, reporting to President of Sales Michael Weiss ...
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Denver's "Ticket" cuts Lombardi & Miller from mornings
KDSP-FM (102.3) "The Ticket" is preparing for its new affiliation with ESPN Radio, which begins January 1. As a part of that move, the morning team of KCNC-TV sports anchors Vic Lombardi and Gary Miller will be dropped at the end of December.
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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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At ESPN Deportes, Freddy Rolon adds oversight of programming
Rolon comes from the business side, having been Senior Director II at ESPN Deportes Radio and Business Initiatives. He got his first exposure to the company as a summer intern for ESPN International in 2003.
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ESPN Radio's Jason Smith Tweets he is leaving
The host of the national "AllNight with Jason Smith" posted on his Twitter that he was ending his run on ESPN Radio at the end of the week. Smith Tweeted, "If you missed it - I'm leaving ESPN Radio at end of week for a big opportunity - I'll announce what it is Thursday night/Friday morning..." Smith will be leaving ESPN for a job with the MLB Netw…
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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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Five hours of ESPN Radio midday shows to be simulcast on "ESPNews"
"The Herd with Colin Cowherd" and "The Scott Van Pelt Show" are currently seen on different video channels, but as of Monday, September 26, they'll be placed back-to-back on ESPNews, from 10am Eastern to 3pm. Colin Cowherd is currently carried on "The U", the college-oriented channel formally named ESPNU.
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Greater Media's all-sports "Fanatic" WPEN, Philadelphia brings back Tony Bruno
Tony Bruno left WPEN-AM/FM (950/97.5) in May, but is heading back for another round on the "Fanatic" in Philadelphia. Bruno, a native of Philadelphia, returns both to his former station and his former radio partner. Read More
Philadelphia's all-sports WIP to simulcast on Atlantic City's WBSS (1490)
CBS Radio is expanding the reach of their all-sports WIP-AM, and not only to the FM dial in Philadelphia. Longport Media in Atlantic City announces they will simulcast the Philadelphia all-sports station on WBSS-AM, Pleasantville (1490).
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Cumulus flips Harrisburg translator signal from R&B "Touch" to sports
The "Touch" has been heard in Harrisburg, PA since 1993, most recently on FM translator W237DE. Beginning in 2009, it was fed by the HD2 signal of a full-power Cumulus station, but that's changing as of today (9/1).
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Sports KTAR-AM (620) in Phoenix to flip its lineup
The morning team of sports/talk KTAR-AM (620) isn't leaving. They're just waking up later.
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How big is women's soccer? ESPN Radio carried FIFA World Cup finals
Too bad the US Women's team lost it in the penalty kick phase at the very end, but no doubt ESPN Radio had lots of extra tune-in, live from Germany (7/17). ESPN says the game was "the first time ESPN Radio has broadcast a FIFA Women's World Cup game." Last year, they ran live coverage of all 64 games of the 2010 FIFA Men's World Cup from South … Read More
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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Sports talker Brandon Tierney crosses coasts, joins KBWF in San Francisco
Brandon Tierney is exchanging Broadway for Fisherman's Wharf. Tierney, a former midday sports/talk host on ESPN Radio's flagship WEPN-AM New York (1050), is moving to San Francisco and will pair with former San Francisco 49ers football star Eric Davis to co-host afternoons 2pm-6pm on KBWF-FM (95.7).
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Radio-Info's Internet & Digital Radio news
INTERNET: Sway Calloway, known as Sway in the Morning from MTV's "World Famous Wake-Up Show", joins Sirius XM to host the morning show on Eminem's "Shade 45" music channel ... Triton Digital, backed by Oaktree Capital, has signed a deal with Lincoln Financial Media to provide the internet streaming for 11 stations, all in top-20 markets ...
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Making Moves: Monday, June 13, 2011
In Washington, DC, alternative rock WWDC-FM (101.1) "DC-101" drops Travis Bagwell from nights, and promotes morning producer/weekender Mike Jones in his place ... A format flip in McCook, Nebraska, where KSWN-FM (93.9) has dropped their Hot AC format for CHR as "The Zone." You can check out their new website here ...
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