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First April PPMs include the final book for New York's urban AC WRKS
Emmis' "98.7 Kiss" finishes its existence on an up-note, and in the top five with age 6+ AQH shares. It moved from a February 3.7 to 3.8 to 4.0, for the Arbitron "April" survey period of March 31-April 27.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: March 12, 2012
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending March 12, 2012. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.* Station (FM)KZGZ (104.5 Jamz) Spokane, Wash. – They are monitored by both BDS and Mediabase, but report to neither of …
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Chicago's WGN to move up to 7th floor, as Tribune leases space to a restaurant
Talk WGN (720) will retain the plaza-level glass-enclosed studio where morning man Jonathon Brandmeier operates from. But TimeOut Chicago's Robert Feder reports that "the rest of the station will relocate to the seventh floor." GM Tom Langmyer's memo to staff says “Our new location in the building will include a fresher and brighter workspace (as t…
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Jonathon Brandmeier back on Chicago radio – at Tribune talker WGN (720)
TimeOut Chicago’s Robert Feder tweets that former WLUP morning personality Jonathon Brandmeier will be taking over the morning shift at WGN. As of next Wednesday, Brandmeier will host 5:30am to 9am.
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Herman Cain’s just-announced accuser wants to get back into radio
Update #1: The Chicago Sun-Times says Sharon Bialek has a second job interview tomorrow (11/10) for a position in the sales department at Salem's conservative talk WIND (560). Sneed also reports that Bialek saw Cain last month at a Tea Party event in Chicago.Update #2: Former WGN staffer Steve Cochran, who worked with Bialek at WGN (720), tells Rob… Read More
Making Moves: Thursday, November 3, 2011
More Cumulus cuts, this time in Pennsylvania, where York's WSOX-FM (96.1) parts ways with midday host Larry Scott. Also: Moe Rock is no longer with WQXA-FM (105.7) "The X" ...
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Bill White officially oversees WGN-AM Chicago
Tribune's talk WGN-AM (720) Chicago makes it official and names Bill White
as director of programming and news, replacing Charlie Meyerson who
joined Merlin Media's WWWN-FM (101.1) in June, says Robert Feder's Time
Out Chicago. White already carried the director of programming title.
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Judge says no to competing plans for the Tribune bankruptcy
The US Bankruptcy judge overseeing the bankruptcy case of Tribune has quashed both proposals for the reorganization of the Chicago-based media company. In his 126-page opinion, Judge Kevin Carey wrote that a settlement, "should be approved because it is fair, reasonable and in the best interest of the Debtor's estates ...
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Making Moves: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Following the departure of PD Jay Michaels to AC KDMX (102.9) in Dallas, WROX-FM (96.1) in Norfolk, Virginia promotes APD James Steele to PD, and production director Nick Chappell to APD ... Radio-Info.com hears from Chicago, where Merlin Media's WWWN "FM News 101.1" production director Brian Rhodes
has left the building.
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New August PPMs are the first for Merlin Media in New York, Chicago
Arbitron's survey month of August ran from July 21 to August 17, which is hardly a measure of the soft-launches of Merlin Media in New York on WEMP (101.9) or in Chicago (WWWN at 101.1). But consider them as baselines: New York's "FM News 101.9" shows with a 1.1 share of the age 6+ AQH listening for "August", compared to a 2.6 share in June for pre…
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Latest July PPMs for NYC, L.A., Chicago and more
In New York City: AC "Lite" WLTW slips but holds first place, 6.6 to 6.6 to 6.0 since the May monthly PPMs. Its Clear Channel sister station rhythmic AC WKTU now ranks second, 4.9-5.1-5.1. Read More
Chicago's WGN (720) is looking for a news director, as Charlie Meyerson exits
Meyerson was hired by former WGN program director Kevin Metheny in July 2009, coming back to radio after 11 years at ChicagoTribune.com. Before that, Meyerson had worked in Chicago radio at adult alternative WXRT (93.1) and then-smooth jazz WNUA (95.5).
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May PPMs show NYC stays "Lite", and L.A. loves its "Kiss" – but also talk KFI
The Los Angeles May PPMs show Clear Channel CHR KIIS-FM on an up-curve over the last three months, 5.1-5.2-5.4 with age 6+ AQH shares. But check Clear Channel talker KFI - 4.3-4.5-4.9, now in second place. Read More
New April PPMs: Baseball pays off for many flagships
Arbitron's just-issued April People Meter results show immediate fan enthusiasm, in the first month of the season. For example: New York – Yankees flagship WCBS-AM (880) jumps 3.7 to 4.8 to tie CHR "Z100" WHTZ for third place, with age 6+ AQH shares.
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Bob Shomper to program CBS Radio's news/talk WCCO, Minneapolis (830)
Shomper returns to his native midwest from KTAR-FM, Phoenix, and he succeeds the departed Wendy Paulson as the program director at WCCO. She left in February.
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The Tribune bankruptcy plan is deadlocked – again
The Chicago Tribune, owned by the Tribune company, reports the bankruptcy case involving Tribune is deadlocked, following weeks of confirmation hearings in a Delaware courtroom. Tribune, which is also the parent company of Chicago's talk WGN-AM (720), now finds itself at an impasse.
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Former Cub Keith Moreland to succeed Ron Santo on radio team
WGN, Chicago announces that 12-year Major League Baseball player Keith Moreland will be sitting alongside Pat Hughes beginning with the first Spring training game from Mesa, Arizona on February 27. For many years, that seat belonged to beloved Cubs player and announcer Ron Santo, who died last year.
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Making Moves: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Chicago's talk WGN-AM (720) drops weekend talk host Simon "Rendezvous" Badinter (a French national who recently became an American citizen), but he's not on the unemployment line. Badinter will continue doing weekends on Boston's WTKK-FM (96.9) ...
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Making Moves: Monday, January 24, 2011
West Palm Beach, Florida AC WRMF-FM (97.9) and morning host Danny Czekalinski part ways. Radio-Info is told that co-hosts Chad Mitchell & Deena Lang will stay in mornings and a search has begun to find Czekalinski's replacement ...
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WGN, Chicago (720) brings in Bill White as its new program director
White succeeds the sometimes-controversial Kevin Metheny, who left Tribune-owned talker WGN in November. White joined news/talk WBT-AM/FM, Charlotte (1110/99.3) in 2001 and has recently been Operations Manager of both WBT and its Greater Media hot AC sister, "Link" WLNK (107.9).
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