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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Michael Bryan upped from Clear Channel Orlando to Nashville OM

Michael Bryan Newly minted Clear Channel Orlando OM Michael Bryan will have his hands full with the company’s five outlets in the market: country WSIX (The Big 98), CHR WRVW (107.5 The River), urban WUBT (101.1 The Beat), classic rock WNRQ (The Rock 105.9) and talk WLAC-AM. The former five-year Digital PD for CC Orlando and PD of CHR WXXL (XL 106.7) replaces Ric… Read More

Monday, January 23, 2012

What Happens When A Market Loses Mainstream AC?

WLTE-FM When the only Mainstream AC in the market goes away, who benefits?That’s not a question that most programmers would have expected to be confronted with a few years ago. But it has become an issue in several markets over the past few years, most notably in the midwest where longtime AC WLTE (Lite 102.9) Minneapolis, recently became “Buz’n Country”… Read More

Monday, January 16, 2012

WOLT Greenville/Spartanburg, SC adds a test "Spin" to nights, overnights

WOLT-FM See an explanation about CHR "Spin" by Joe Delfin of JamTraxx Media on the South Carolina Board of Radio-Info.com - here.Davidson Media Group’s brokered WOLT (103.3), serving Greenville/Spartanburg, S.C., has begun airing CHR “Spin-FM” from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Read More

Monday, January 9, 2012

Making Moves: Monday, January 9, 2012

Making Moves The syndicated “Elvis Duran Morning Show” will now be heard on Danville, Virginia's CHR WMPW “Amp 103.7” starting on January 23 … Beginning Jan. 30, Steve Clark returns to Altoona, PA talker WFBG (1290), to host a weekend talk show, according to the Altoona Mirror … NorthPine reports that KGFK (1590) Grand Forks, MN and its two FM transla… Read More

Friday, January 6, 2012

New Orleans' Bob DelGiorno retires from WWL-AM/FM

Bob DelGiorno, morning man on Talk WWL-AM/FM (870 and 105.3) New Orleans, announced his retirement from the station after 34 years on air. The station plans to replace him with Tommy Tucker, DelGiorno’s frequent fill in host over the past few years, as well as the night jock on the station. Read More

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Air talent Jamie White cycles back to Denver's "Alice", in mornings

Jamie White In 1994, White partnered with Frosty Stilwell and Frank Kramer at hot AC "Alice 105.9" KALC, and even after she left for Los Angeles in 1998, she was still heard in Denver for two years. Jamie went on to do radio in Kansas City and Sacramento, plus film and TV work around L.A. Read More

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Entercom Inks New Multi-Year Partnership With NFL Buffalo Bills

Entercom scored a touchdown with its multi-year partnership to broadcast all Buffalo Bills football games on the market’s all-sports WGR (550 AM), beginning with the upcoming 2012 season. The Buffalo Bills Radio Network will also be heard on Entercom’s WCMF (96.5 FM) and WROC (950 AM) in the Rochester market, as well as 19 additional radio outlets … Read More

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

"Mayor" Pete Kennedy returns to Rochester on Clear Channel's WDVI

After nine months off the air, Pete Kennedy, “The Mayor,” returned to Rochester, N.Y., radio Jan. 4 as morning host of Clear Channel hot AC WDVI (100.5 The Drive). Read More

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Making Moves: Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Making Moves Entercom’s Austin-area talker KJCE “Talk Radio 1370” licensed to Rollingwood, TX, adds the Walton & Johnson syndicated morning show. The station is also heard on an FM translator at 96.3 in the market …The Premiere-syndicated John Boy and Billy show adds Classic Hits WXOF “96.3 the Fox” Yankeetown, FL (just outside Ocala). Read More

Thursday, December 22, 2011

San Francisco classical non-profit buys a South Bay translator for $205,000

KDFC 90.3 and 89.9 Classical Public Radio Network needs signal help in the South Bay, since it took over the KDFC branding and classical library from Entercom and moved off of KDFC's traditional frequency of 102.1. The classical programming is now at the non-commercial frequency of 90.3, being LMA'd from the University of San Francisco. Read More

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Clear Channel San Antonio names Chase Murphy OM

Clear Channel Chase Murphy is moving to Texas, to oversee the Clear Channel stations at the company's home base in San Antonio. Murphy takes over for Tony Travatto, now the OM of Clear Channel's cluster in Columbus, Ohio. Read More

Friday, December 9, 2011

Sacramento's brief opening for a hot AC is filled by Entercom's Buzz – now Star

KBZC Sacramento as Star 106.5 Clear Channel's December 1 flip of KGBY (92.5) from hot AC into a simulcast with news/talk KFBK (1530) encourages Entercom to fill the hot AC format hole. "Feel good music" KBZC had been doing rhythmic AC only since September of this year. Read More

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Steve Weed gets a new assignment – ops manager at Clear Channel Sacramento

Clear Channel This will be veteran programmer Steve Weed's second go-around in the capital city of California. Weed, who is currently the Operations Manager for Clear Channel in Fresno, is moving to Sacramento as OM. Read More

Monday, November 21, 2011

Jerry Dean Exits Entercom Memphis

Radio-Info.com has learned that Jerry Dean, PD of AC WRVR “104.5 the River” Memphis, has exited. Dean was also the OM for the entire Entercom cluster. Read More

Friday, November 18, 2011

Making Moves: Friday, November 18, 2011

Making Moves In Phoenix, KSLX-FM (100.7) PD Jim Owen checks in with Radio-Info.com, saying Liz Jordan will become Programming Assistant and will voicetrack overnights, while Randi Scott takes over the evening shift ... Clear Channel gives WMAS-FM, Springfield, Massachusetts (94.7) PD Rob Anthony new authority as Northeast Regional Programming Manager. Read More

Friday, November 18, 2011

It's Christmas in Florida, Texas, Minnesota and Washington, DC

Holiday music graphic In the state capital of Florida, WQTL-FM (106.1) has gone from "Tallahassee's Oldies Station" to playing Christmas songs with an oldies theme, including the Ronettes' "Frosty The Snowman" and Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree." Down I-10 in Panama City, Clear Channel's WFSY-FM "Sunny" (98.5) has dropped AC music for holiday songs - Di… Read More

Monday, November 14, 2011

Entercom to sell $250M in private-placement notes

Entercom logo Two weeks ago, Entercom CFO Steve Fisher said the Philadelphia-based group owner was working on replacing the current credit facility that expires in June 2012. The company has worked down its debt from a high of $950 million in 2007 to about $600 million now. Read More

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Christmas comes to Iowa, Wisconsin and Upstate New York

All Christmas Bing Crosby The holiday spirit is spreading around the nation, as stations in Iowa,Wisconsin and New York have either flipped to Christmas music or said that holiday songs are on their way. In Ames, Iowa, KLTI-FM "Lite" (104.1) has put aside AC music for holiday songs for just one evening on November 4, but went back to playing "Lite Rock with a lot Less Talk,… Read More

Friday, November 4, 2011

The IPO pricing for Groupon values the daily-deal pioneer at nearly $13 billion

The Wall Street Journal reports the possible pricing at $20 a share by the Groupon underwriters Thursday night, and says it's richer than the $16-18 range projected just a couple of weeks ago. But the fact that this deal has so many underwriters might be read as implying that none of them wants to have too large an exposure to the deal. Read More

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Entercom the latest radio company to report essentially flat Q3 revenue

Entercom logo That is, excluding the category of political advertising, Philadelphia-based Entercom's revenue would have been unchanged from last year. As reported, Entercom shows as down 2%, to $100.4 million. Read More

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