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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Luke Jensen To Exit KVOO Tulsa PD Job For Nashville Promo Gig

Luke Jensen has resigned his position as PD/morning man at Journal Broadcast Group's country KVOO-FM Tulsa, Okla. He'll be moving to Nashville after the end of the month to become director of promotion at music promotion firm InstiGator Entertainment. Read More

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Journal reports 2.7% higher radio revenue

Journal Broadcast Group says third quarter revenues for the radio sector improved from $18.5 million to $19 million, while operating earnings slipped from $4.5 million to $4.1 million. Expenses grew more than 6%, "mainly due to higher employee-related expenses and promotion costs." Political and issue advertising was about $400,000 in both years. Read More

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

John Roberts is the new PD for Journal's "The Lake" in Milwaukee

John Roberts is the former PD of WMC-FM (99.7) in Memphis, and heads north to Milwaukee to join Journal Broadcast Group as PD of variety hits WLWK-FM (94.5) "The Lake," starting October 31. Roberts has been the PD of KIMN-FM (100.3) in Denver, WEZB-FM (97.1) "B-97" in New Orleans and was a former VP/Programming and Operations for Clear Channel in D… Read More

Friday, October 7, 2011

Making Moves: Friday, October 7, 2011

Journal Broadcast Group's country KTTS-FM (94.7) brings in former Clear Channel Fort Smith, Arkansas PD/morning host Bobby Baldwin to host the morning show ... Huntsville, Alabama's WZYP-FM (104.3) also gets a new morning show, bringing back the "Mojo Radio Show," starting Monday, according to their station Facebook page - Discuss it ... Read More

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Making Moves: Thursday, October 6, 2011

Clear Channel's Harlington, Texas KHKZ-FM (106.3) afternoon host/MD Hitman adds more work to his day, becoming PD of sister-station KQXX-FM (105.5) "The X." Hitman will also be heard on KNCN-FM (101.3) in Corpus Christi ... Budget cuts at Buckley in Connecticut have cost WDRC-FM (102.9) host Larry Wells his job, replaced by Grahame Winters, accordi… Read More

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Radio stocks hit hard on Wall Street for the 2nd time in three days

The wild roller coaster ride is making for a dizzying time for radio stocks. For the second time in three trading sessions, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 500 points, closing down 519 points on Wednesday. Read More

Monday, August 8, 2011

Radio stocks get slammed on Wall Street

Much like the rest of Wall Street, radio stocks were hardly spared on Monday. The selloff hit Sirius XM (SIRI) worst, losing 12.7% and falling below $2 to $1.65. Read More

Friday, July 15, 2011

Joe Scialfa named PD of News/Talk WTMJ (620) Milwaukee

Journal Broadcast Group’s news/talk WTMJ (620) Milwaukee has a new PD. Joe Scialfa is promoted from APD to PD, effective immediately. Read More

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Journal Communications will buy back up to $45 million of their own shares

Journal's EVP/Finance & Strategy & CFO Andre Fernandez says, "While debt reduction remains our primary use of cash, this share repurchase authorization provides us with the flexibility both to offset the dilutive impact of employee incentive compensation plans and to repurchase shares opportunistically." This marks the first time Milwaukee-based Jo… Read More

Friday, May 27, 2011

Journal Broadcast Group VP/Programming Tom Land dies of cancer at 51

Land had been in hospice, dealing with a lung cancer that was diagnosed last August, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The paper says, "The first clue that something was wrong came in Memphis, as he was running through the airport during a business trip and felt a sudden stabbing pain in his lower back." His Milwaukee doctor diagnosed it as S… Read More

Monday, May 23, 2011

A Florida woman sues Clear Channel for a grand prize never received

The radio station contest in 2007 promised a brand new home for the grand prize winner. Fifty-year old Paula Hedberg was one ten people who were given potential keys to a $300,000 home, and hers was the winning key. Read More

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Making Moves: Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Radio-Info confirms that in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Clear Channel's KVUU-FM "My" (99.9) and afternoon host Rob Ryan have parted ways. His bio has been removed from the station website and Sheena Sandoval was recently heard covering the afternoon shift ... Read More

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Making Moves: Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Journal Broadcast Group hires former Clear Channel Wichita GSM Lisa Fetter to be GSM of their four-station cluster in the same market ... Radio-Info hears from the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, which announces that Clear Channel's KTLK-AM (1150) in Los Angeles is the newest affiliate for The Wall Street Journal's Daily Wrap, hosted by Michael … Read More

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Journal Communications radio stations report 3.4% higher Q1 revenue

Journal says its expenses grew at double that rate, up 7.2%, "primarily due to broadcast sports fees." The 3.4% growth rate for the radio division was better than that for Journal television, where revenue slipped by the same amount - down 3.4%. That was mostly due to revenue from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics which didn't recur in 2011. Read More

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Making Moves: Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Radio-Info hears from Journal Broadcast Group's Wichita, Kansas stations, where modern rock KICT-FM (95.1) & classic rock KFXJ-FM (104.5) PD Ray Michaels has left the building. No replacement has been named ... Read More

Friday, March 18, 2011

Tucson's "ESPN 1490" KFFN-AM is now heard on an FM translator at 104.9

Journal Broadcast Group flips the originating station for the translator away from its “Old School & R&B” rhythmic oldies “Mega 106.3” KGMG to give KFFN (1490) a place on the FM band. The translator covers part of the northern side of the Tucson metro, and Journal is calling it KFFN-FM - although a translator can't legally take that name, and it wi… Read More

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Shaun Holly Is the New Ops Manager for Journal-Tucson

Holly spent 18 years in the nearby Phoenix market in programming, promotion and airwork, six of them for Clear Channel and its Total Traffic operation. More recently he has been the market manager and program director for a six-station cluster in Flagstaff, north of Phoenix, and he has been the co-CEO of AXON Broadcast Partners. Read More

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Making Moves: Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Radio-Info hears from Beasley's A/C WJBR-FM (99.5) in Wilmington, Delaware, where Brian DeMay, a former PD of Buffalo's WTSS-FM "Star" (102.5), is named PD. DeMay replaces Michael Waite, who left for a job outside of radio ... Read More

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Making Moves: Friday, February 11, 2011

Jacksonville, Florida's WJGH-FM (107.3) is making moves. Radio-Info confirms that starting Monday, Mike Perry leaves Port St. Read More

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Tulsa’s country KVOO-FM gets threatening calls about a local judge

It's not clear why Keith Williams chose KVOO (98.5) to call with his vivid threats against a judge he was supposed to be seeing for a February 7 sentencing hearing. But KOTV-TV says he called not once but three times, and left profanity-studded messages each time about what he would do to Washington County Judge John Gerkin. Read More

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