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Heavy winds in Southern California disturb transmitters and towers
“Unusually heavy winds” caused CBS Radio’s all-news KNX (1070) to run an unmodulated signal on Wednesday evening, according to the CGC Communicator newsletter. On Mount Harvard, KFSCI's main antenna fell to the ground. Read More
Making Moves: Friday, September 30, 2011
Radio-Info.com confirms that Matt Hanlon, who oversaw the Grand Rapids, Flint and Lansing, Michigan markets for Cumulus, is no longer with the company. Mary Jane Dickson, who oversees Flint, will be handling Hanlon's former markets ...
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Making Moves: Friday, September 16, 2011
New York City's WHTZ (100.3) "Z-100" is keeping its "bounce," signing evening DJ Mo Bounce to a contract extension ... Radio-Info hears from Allentown, Pennsylvania's WLEV(100.7), where Scott Evans has been brought in to co-host the morning show with current host Cindy Wear.
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Making Moves: Friday, July 22, 2011
Ogden, Utah's alternative KENZ (101.9) brings in Jimmy Chunga to co-host the morning show. You can listen to "The End" here ...
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KNX, Los Angeles anchor will announce TV's "Wheel of Fortune"
On the side, Jim Thornton has done lots of voiceover work in TV, movies (Disney's "Monsters Inc"), live events, video games ("Boom Blox 2", "Mafia II") and TV & radio commercials. He was first heard on all-news KNX (1070) in 1985, doing traffic reports for Metro. Read More
Making Moves: Friday, June 10, 2011
Max Media in Coastal North Carolina brings in Mark Lindow as PD/morning host for country WCMS-FM (94.5) in Nags Head ... Radio-Info hears from Wilmington, Delaware's Hot AC WSTW-FM 93.7), where Aaron Price comes on-board for evenings.
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The FCC fines LA's KNX-AM $10,000 over a burned-out tower light
CBS Radio’s KNX-AM (1070) owes a $10,000 fine after it was discovered that they had a burned-out tower light last year. According to the FCC report, “On May 13, 2010, an employee of the Enforcement Bureau’s Los Angeles
Office observed that the top beacon of a tower, located next to the
intersection of West 190th Street and Prairie Avenue in Tor…
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First March PPMs: It's still "Lite" in NYC...Closer call for "Kiss" in L.A.
- New York, Arbitron market #1: Clear Channel's AC "Lite" WLTW pulls away, running 6.8-7.1-7.6 since the January PPMs. Second place with age 6+ AQH shares belongs to CBS Radio's classic hits WCBS-FM, 5.2-5.6-5.4. Read More
Radio brings the details of the Japan earthquake
The devastating earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan was recorded as the 5th strongest on record, and sent a tsunami wave over 20 feet high over parts of Japan, and traveled to Hawaii and the South American Pacific coast. News of the quake has taken over radio reports.
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L.A. newsman-and-more Jack Popejoy dies of cancer at 63
Popejoy not only programmed radio stations in Los Angeles, such as KIIS in the 1970s and the very early KZLA-FM, he became deeply involved in earthquake education and public service. The longtime anchor at KFWB radio (980) was a creator of the famous annual “Great California ShakeOut”, which has taught millions the drill of “duck, cover and hold.” …
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Making Moves: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Radio-Info is told that Charleston, South Carolina's WIWF-FM (96.9) and morning host Steve Waters have parted ways. Co-host Jessica Chandler will be solo, with "The Wolf" on the prowl for a replacement.
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CBS Radio will unveil new consolidated websites in Philadelphia and Chicago
Following their move to consolidate station websites in New York City, placing all-news WINS-AM (1010), WCBS-AM (880) and sports WFAN-AM (660) along with WCBS-TV on the same “CBS New York.com” site, CBS has expanded to Philadelphia and will also create a new multi-station site in Chicago. CBS has combined the websites of all-news KYW-AM (1060), n…
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Five are out due to budget cuts at KLOS-FM & KABC-AM in L.A.
Longtime Los Angeles newsman Michael Linder, who spent years at KNX-AM (1070) before joining KABC-AM (790) as their City Hall reporter, is the high profile name on the list of cuts at the Citadel-owned talk station. LARadio.com says that along with Linder, sales assistants Aki Tsuruoka and Hilda Banuelos, programming assistant Lindsay Mendoza and K…
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Making Moves: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
In Dallas, former KEGL-FM (97.1) and syndicated morning hosts Lex & Terry, will get a weekend shift back in “Big D” on all-sports “Fan” KRLD-FM (105.3), says the Dallas Observer – Discuss it … Beasley’s WJBR-FM (99.5) in Wilmington, Delaware will pair Dave Cruise & Jill Quale for the new “Mornings with Dave and Jill Show” … Radio-Info.com… Read More
Making Moves: Friday, April 2, 2010
Radio-Info hears from a source in Las Vegas that KXNT-AM “NewsRadio” (840) PD Jack Landreth has been let go. Cat Thomas will help run the station for CBS Radio market manager Dave McDonald for the time being … In a surprise move, Sacramento, California talker KERN-AM (1180) mid-morning talk host Inga Barks has resigned to spend more time with her f… Read More
Will CBS Radio sell KFWB in Los Angeles?
CBS has already placed KFWB-AM (980) into a trust run by longtime radio industry veteran and former Shamrock executive Bill Clark. This move was made to comply with an FCC order after CBS bought a second TV station in LA. Read More
Making Moves: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Former Clear Channel regional VP/Programming Todd Shannon joins Cox Radio as Operations Director for their Jacksonville, Florida stations … Former WINS-AM “1010 WINS” New York City news anchor Jessica Ettinger Gottesman is the new afternoon drive anchor for Seattle’s KIRO-FM (97.3) … Fisher Communications promotes Randa Minkarah to be their new SVP… Read More
Former KNX-FM Los Angeles PD Steve Marshall gets prison for distributing child porn
Marshall is going to jail, sentenced to 7 ½ years in Arkansas for distribution of child pornography. Authorities claim Marshall, who at one time was an executive producer for the 1980’s hit sit-com “Growing Pains,” both sent and received child pornography and participated in online chats “detailing child abduction, bondage, rapes and murders.” Mars… Read More
40-year radio journalist Mike Pulsipher passes away
Mike Pulsipher was not only a great storyteller, but also someone who enjoyed sharing the news of the day. Prior to his retirement in 2007 for health reasons, Pulsipher anchored news for KNX-AM (1070) in Los Angeles, KFBK-AM (1530) in Sacramento, for CBS Radio News in New York, and had two tours of duty with San Francisco’s KCBS-AM (740). Read More
Making Moves: Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Kirby Wilbur is back on Seattle’s KVI-AM (570), but only for this week. Fired for budgetary reasons in November, Wilbur is filling in for the vacationing syndicated Sean Hannity, according to his Facebook page … It was a Twitter posting out of Memphis that revealed that The Gary Parrish Show with Geoff Calkins will join all-spots WMFS-AM/FM (680/… Read More
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