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Radio’s Best & Worst: January 18, 2012
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending January 18, 2012. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Ratings StoryWKXW (New Jersey 101.5) Trenton, N.J. – For the best part of two decades, the station launched in 1990 w…
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Making Moves: Friday, January 13, 2012
Merlin Media’s WIQI “FM News 101.1” Chicago loses reporter Kevin Patrick to CBS Radio’s soon-to-launch all news WNEW-FM, Washington, D.C. (99.1) …Also out of Chicago, radio veteran Johnny “Koolout” Starks is headed to Urban AC WIKS “101.9 Kiss” New Bern, N.C., to handle afternoon drive.
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Making Moves: Friday, January 6, 2012
Good Karma Broadcasting’s WAUK-AM (540 ESPN) Milwaukee drops ESPN Radio's "The Herd with Colin Cowherd," which has aired 9-11 a.m. weekdays since 2009.
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Making Moves: Friday, December 2, 2011
Fresno, California's classic rock KKBZ-FM (105.1) "The Blaze" parts ways with morning hosts Jennifer Lipp & Kris DeVold. No replacements have been named ...
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Making Moves: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
At "Jack" in Dallas: Radio-Info.com confirms that KJKK-FM (100.3) has hired Sacramento's KQJK-FM (93.7) "Jack-FM" PD Jeff McMurray as PD. You can listen to CBS Radio's "100.3 Jack-FM" here ...
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Scaring Up Some New Halloween Oldies
Scared of how many times you’re going to hear “Monster Mash” this weekend? “Thriller”?
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Oaktree closes on Millennium-NJ, files to transfer stations to Townsquare Media
The Form 316 transfers are at the FCC, the second step of a process that began when L.A.-based Oaktree Capital closed on "New Jersey 101.5" WKXW, Trenton and ten other stations. That was earlier this week.
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Day 2 Spring 2011 diary books: Monmouth-Ocean, Buffalo, Richmond...
In market #51, Monmouth-Ocean, NJ, Millennium's hybrid talk/classic hits "New Jersey 101.5" receives its best book in over a year. A year ago, WKXW had a Spring-book 7.9, then a Fall-book 8.3, a Winter 8.0, and now an 8.6 share of the age 12+ AQH listening. Read More
Making Moves: Monday, July 18, 2011
NextMedia names Scott Kosak as station manager for WERV-FM (95,9) "The River", in Aurora, Illinois ... Radio-Info.com has learned that longtime news anchor/reporter Racquel Williams is leaving New Jersey's talk/music hybrid WKXW-FM (101.5) for a yet-unnamed destination, but New York City appears to be her next stop ...
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Making Moves: Thursday, June 30, 2011
In Houston: Clear Channel News/talk KTRH (740) drops the morning news duo of Lana Hughes and J.P. Pritchard, replacing them with Matt Patrick, last heard on News/Talk WTRC (95.3) South Bend, Indiana ...
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WKXW's "Jersey Guy" Ray Rossi gets a solo nighttime talkshow
Millennium's "New Jersey 101.5" is replacing the current 2-7pm team of "Jersey Guys" Ray Rossi and Casey Bartholomew with the returning Deminski & Doyle, starting July 5. Today WKXW, Trenton PD Eric Johnson announces that Rossi is being retained to host "The Late Show with Jersey Guy Ray Rossi", weeknights from 11pm to 3am. Read More
Deminski and Doyle return to "New Jersey 101.5", replacing the "Jersey Guys"
Jersey Guys Casey Bartholomew and Ray Rossi are out as of today (6/24), with their contracts not being renewed. (See the statement from PD Eric Johnson here.) Simultaneously, the station announces the return of Jeff Deminski & Bill Doyle to the 2-7pm drivetime shift.
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Oaktree Capital files for a Wall Street IPO
A much-rumored move to become a publicly-traded company has become reality, as Oaktree Capital Management has filed paperwork for an Initial Public Offering. While no information was filed as to exact amount of shares to be offered, Los Angeles-based Oaktree will have Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley underwriting the IPO.
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Radio's Best & Worst: June 16, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending June 16, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or another) capacity are asterisked.*Station (FM)WZBA (The Bay) Baltimore – The legal ID is “family-owned, locally operated.” And under PD (and friend of ROR) …
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Photo of NJ 101.5 "shock jocks" puts station into federal appeals court
From today's TRI Newsletter: A lower court had tossed the copyright infringement and defamation case brought by photographer Peter Murphy. The Hollywood Reporter says he'd been hired by New Jersey Monthly magazine to shoot a photo of "shock jocks" Craig Carton (now at WFAN, New York) and Ray Rossi. Read More
Talkers seminar "Bigger Picture": You must do more than talk
When it comes to being a talk show host, it means much more now than just going into a studio and sitting behind a microphone for a few hours. The panel discussion of "Talk Radio: The Bigger Picture" at the Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar in New York (Friday, 6/10) brought out a series of different viewpoints from successful talk hosts.
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NJ Gov. Chris Christie gets a surprise caller to his monthly radio show
She ran for Lt. Governor in New Jersey on the Democratic ticket against current Gov.
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Oaktree Capital, owner of radio assets and much more, is planning an IPO
The New York Times and others are reporting on plans by the Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management, which manages over $80 billion in assets, to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange. Oaktree has investments in many industries, but in the radio sector it controls Townsquare Media and Triton Digital.
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Millennium Radio-NJ debtholder Oaktree Capital announces a takeover
This will be a debt-to-equity conversion for Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital, which will re-structure and recapitlize Millennium-New Jersey. The April 12 TRI Newsletter at Radio-Info.com reported speculation about a takeover of Millennium by Townsquare Media, which is also backed by Oaktree.
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Radio news alters programming after the US takes out bin Laden
Almost immediately, radio stations and networks around the nation changed their programming when news of the death of Osama Bin Laden began to emerge late Sunday evening. ABC News Radio offered affiliates live overnight coverage with special updates every 15 minutes.
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- Eddie Fingers is back at Cincinnati's talk WLW (700), part of a daytime shakeup
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- Doc Thompson, let go at WLW Cincinnati, is also out at WRVA Richmond
- Boomer exits country WQIK's a.m. drive "Jax Big Show"
