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Translators demonstrate increasing worth, shown in Entercom's deal in Austin
Entercom has purchased an FM translator in Austin for $300,000, which is already in use to simulcast “Talk 1370” KJCE, Rollingwood, Texas. That's 50% more than it sold for last year. Read More
Fresh Listen: KBLX San Francisco
With the recent sale of Inner City’s Urban AC KBLX San Francisco to Entercom, the station has undergone several on air changes – the most noticeable being the addition of the syndicated Steve Harvey Show in mornings and dropping the long-time name “the Quiet Storm,” which it had been using since the mid- ‘80s. Unfortunately, as it is with many stat…
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Wilhite Joins Entercom K.C. Production Staff
Afternoon driver Darren Wilhite exits Eagle Communications' Hot AC KKJO St Joseph, Mo., today, and on Monday starts a new job at Entercom's Kansas City stations doing production under cluster production director Mark Groves. He had been part of the KKJO airstaff since May 2011.
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Entercom revenues down 3% in first quarter, after last year's format changes
Entercom's moves in San Francisco to turn its country "Wolf" into an all-sports station ("95.7 The Game" KGMZ) and to create a two-signal classic rock "K-Fox" "super station" affected the revenues. Last year, Entercom also added FM signals to several AM talk-based formats, thus losing the revenue from the previous FM format.
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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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Entercom begins an LMA of KBLX, San Francisco May 1, adds Steve Harvey
With the blessing of creditors, Entercom is paying $25 million to buy urban AC KBLX, Berkeley (102.9) from debtor-in-possession Inner City. Now that it has resolved an objection by AFTRA, Entercom announces it will begin its time brokerage deal on Tuesday, May 1.
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Triton Digital monthlies for Feb. show online growth for Pandora, Clear Channel
Pandora's reported "average active sessions" for February were 1,234,213, up from January's 1.19 million. Its "session starts" were 524.6 million, up from nearly 489 million.
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At Entercom's classic rock K-Fox in the Bay Area,Tim Jefferys exits MD/middays
The classic rock "K-Fox" simulcast of KUFX San Jose (98.5) and KUZX, San Francisco (102.1) has released MD and midday talent Tim Jefferys. As of Friday, his bio has been deleted from the station’s website.
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Entercom confirms the rumored $25 million acquisition of KBLX, SF (102.9)
Urban AC KBLX had been kept separate from the rest of the Inner City Broadcasting assets now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Entercom, which owns other San Francisco stations such as soft AC KOIT (96.5), will begin LMAing KBLX once the purchase is approved by the U.S.
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An announcement could come soon about Entercom buying SF's urban AC KBLX
From today's TRI: The March 9 newsletter reported that Entercom may’ve scored urban AC KBLX from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy situation at Inner City, for a price of $25 million. KBLX was kept separate from the other assets mired in the Inner City Broadcasting drama, and it appears that Entercom is betting still more chips on the San Francisco radio m…
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New market manager for Entercom-Portland: Tim McNamara, returning to radio
McNamara comes back to radio management after serving as the Chief Marketing Officer and VP/Marketing & Sales at Portland, Oregon-based digital agency Adpearance. He previously managed stations in the market for Paul Allen's Rose City Radio group and for Kaye Smith Enterprises. Read More
San Francisco sales executive Judi Ratto crosses from Cumulus to Entercom
Ratto spent 15 years at the cluster that has been owned since 2006 by Cumulus, and before that, Susquehanna. Entercom market manager Dwight Walker says "Adding Judi Ratto is like adding a perennial all-star to your team." She comes in with the title of VP of Sales for these Entercom stations: Soft AC KOIT (96.5), classic rock "K-Fox" (98.5/102.1) a… Read More
The Inner City drama may be over, with Yucaipa taking everything except KBLX
From this morning's TRI Newsletter: Did Entercom score urban AC KBLX, San Francisco for $25 million? We knew that in this Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, KBLX (102.9) was kept outside the portfolio of stations in New York City, Columbia (SC) and Jackson, Mississippi. Read More
Cutbacks and exits at Entercom San Francisco
From today's Radio-Info.com TRI Newsletter: Pain yesterday at the cluster that includes soft AC KOIT (96.5), the classic rock “K-Fox” combo of KUFX (98.5) and KUZX (102.1), and the year-old all-sports “95.7 The Game” KGMZ. New information from the San Francisco Board of Radio-Info.com: Laurie Sanders, 20-year veteran of afternoon drive at KOIT, is … Read More
Seattle HD shuffle: Smooth jazz loses, "emerging music" triumphs
Amid a Seattle HD Radio shuffle, the Radio-Info.com Seattle Board shares that smooth jazz is dumped off the HD2 channel of Entercom's KKWF (100.7) "Delta Blues", moving from sister KMTT/103.7, takes its place. That makes way for a new HD2 service for “Emerging Music” at 103.7. Read More
Would Entercom join Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio? “It all depends upon the deal"
From today's TRI Newsletter: Entercom CEO David Field is asked the question on Tuesday's Q4 call and offers a cagey answer: “We think we have some terrific content”, and he’s open to distributing it across all kinds of platforms. Reading between the lines, he wouldn’t mind being included on iHeartRadio, with its massive footprint. Read More
Entercom is "optimistic on 2012 growth", but Q4 revenues dropped 7%
CEO David Field says "2011 was a year of extensive strategic investments", with the launch of four new brands and three new FM simulcasts. The markets involved were San Francisco, Boston, Sacramento, Kansas City and Buffalo.
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Kansas City's "Radio Bach" 1660 AM to become "KMBZ Business Channel"
Entercom will use KXTR (1660) to extend the brand of its news/talk KMBZ-AM/FM (980/98.1), and will drop the classical music format in a matter of days. The report from Kansas City P.R. Read More
Garner Goin is going to program K-Fox simulcast in San Jose, San Fran
Garner Goin is headed west from Denver to San Francisco, as new PD for Entercom classic rock simulcast K-Fox, a “superstation” service made up of KUFX San Jose (98.5) and KUZX San Francisco (102.1). He brings 18 years of programming experience from Denver, where Goin was PD of KRFX (103.5 Fox), as well as Digital Program Director for Clear Channel’… Read More
Gary Nolan sniffing for next opportunity; out at Denver's KOSI
Gary Nolan exits as Program Director of Entercom’s soft AC KOSI, Denver (101.1), after four years at the helm. He tells Radio-Info.com that he’s checking out all opportunities, both on-air and programming. Read More
