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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Tom Leykis claims his new online show has attracted 400,000 listeners in 2 weeks

Tom Leykis is shouting out loud and proud that his new online radio service has more than 400,000 listeners. He makes the claim on Facebook (passed along by the Phoenix Board of Radio-Info.com) that the new call-in show that launched April 2, has attracted “401 thousand listeners! Read More

Monday, March 26, 2012

Tom Leykis auctions face-to-face access to April 2 online launch

Tom Leykis is apparently a big fan of the auctioning access. Following the March 9 announcement that the Los Angeles personality would grant the first spot on his new radio show to the highest eBay bidder, he has now posted a five-day eBay auction for two fans to ogle him live and in-person. Read More

Friday, March 9, 2012

Tom Leykis auctions first online show spot via eBay: bids rolling in

eBay, of all places, is the vehicle peddling the debut advertisement heard on the new Tom Leykis Show, which launches live online on his New Normal Network April 2. “Be the first advertiser heard on the first Tom Leykis Show in over three years” is the descriptor, along with plenty of bravado. Read More

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Voiceover vet Howard Hoffman launches Vitaphone; Tom Leykis is first client

Voiceover/production veteran Howard Hoffman—who spent years based at talk KABC (790) Los Angeles, while doing work for NBC Sports, Fox, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ford, REI and more—launches voiceover/production house “Vitaphone Studio.” The namesake revives a Hollywood sound process used in feature films produced by Warner Bros. in the 1920s. Read More

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Tom Leykis is free to return to terrestrial radio on April 2 – but he won't

Leykis ("LYE-kiss") tells the Orange County Register that when his contract with CBS Radio is up this Spring, he'll return with a new live Internet-streamed talk show. In fact, writer Gary Lycan says the new show will be available "everywhere except on the radio." In an interview, Leykis says "I've had my tires kicked over the last few months, and … Read More

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

“WRXP Is Going: Now What Do I Listen To?”

Many years ago, when legendary Top 40 WCFL Chicago went Easy Listening, the station’s Larry Lujack delivered a final rant (before that word was commonly used) that included his “highly coveted endorsement” for soon-to-be-displaced Top 40 listeners. Unfortunately, Lujack joked, his recommendation was going to another AM legend, KHJ Los Angeles.… Read More

Friday, June 24, 2011

Making Moves: Friday, June 24, 2011

CBS Radio's WSCR-AM (670) "The Score" announces that midday host Dan McNeil has agreed to a new multiyear deal to remain on the Windy City sports/talk station. He had been temporarily off the air as they negotiated ... Read More

Friday, April 8, 2011

Tom Leykis adds $50,000 to a reward to catch beating suspects at Dodger stadium

The beating of a San Francisco Giants fan by rival Los Angeles Dodgers partisans has saddened baseball fans around the nation. Longtime radio host Tom Leykis has upped the ante on trying to find the suspects, adding $50,000 of his own money to the reward for the apprehension of the men responsible for beating Bryan Stow in the Dodgers parking lot, … Read More

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Radio-Info's Internet & Digital Radio news

Former nationally syndicated talk host Tom Leykis has launched New Normal Rock, which features Gary & Dino in middays. You can see the website here, and the Facebook page here ... Read More

Thursday, January 20, 2011

First Listen: Your Office Companion

Last November, Tom Leykis launched the online station ''Your Office Companion.'' Initially meant to target those listeners who had been displaced by holiday music on their AC and Hot AC stations, Your Office Companion was a 180-degree turn from New Normal Music, the ’00s-and-now Alternative station, which itself had already represented a departure … Read More

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Making Moves: Thursday, November 11, 2010

Cumulus promotes Kevin Garrity to National Sales Manager for their Northeast Region, working the 19 stations in Connecticut and the lower Hudson Valley, New York that are managed by Chuck Bortnick ... Radio-Info confirms that former Washington, DC Citadel WRQX-FM (107.3) evening DJ Tommy McFly is flying across town to CBS Radio-owned "Fresh" WIAD-F… Read More

Friday, June 25, 2010

Tom Leykis Unveils a "New Normal Music" Internet Site

Leykis used to talk on the radio for a living, with a syndicated show based at then-KLSX, Los Angeles (97.1), and now he’s interested in new music – the kind he says radio “can’t afford to take chances on.” His site says “once you meet New Normal Music” online, “you’ll wonder how you’ll ever go back to anything called ‘FM’ or ‘radio.’” “New Normal … Read More

Friday, May 14, 2010

Making Moves: Friday, May 14, 2010

The new Operations Manager for Emmis in New York City is Brian D’Aurelio, overseeing WQHT-FM (97.1) “Hot 97,” WRKS-FM (98.7) “Kiss” & WRXP-FM (101.9), where he co-hosts the evening show … In Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cumulus is dropping the live morning news program on news/talk WFNC-AM (640), replacing it with sister-station WAAV-AM (980) talk… Read More

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Westwood One and relationship talker Tom Leykis are breaking up

His syndicated show will no longer be associated with Westwood as of March 6. Leykis has been with the syndicator since 1994. Read More

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