Jimbo Wood, who helped WRTT-FM 95.1 The Rocket lift off seven years ago and then soar in the ratings, is leaving to help get another station off the ground in Birmingham.
Wood, one of the city’s top rock radio voices, is taking a job as program director/on-air jock with the newest rock station in Birmingham, WENN-FM […]
When Los Angeles country music station KZLA changed format last August, alarms sounded in the country music radio and record communities.
The nation’s No. 2 market joined New York, which has lacked a country station since 2002, and San Francisco, which bowed out of the country game in early 2005, as the third among the […]
Red ink finally got the better of the nation’s blue-state radio network.
Air America Radio filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on Friday in New York. The network said it would stay on the air while operating under Bankruptcy Court protection.
Since Air America’s inception two years ago, the company, which had […]
Technicians employed by Radio Rentals who were locked out of work for a month have returned to work after the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the company agreed on an enterprise agreement that was better than Radio Rentals’ original offer.
Radio Rentals had wanted to put the workers, who had been on a collective agreement, […]
EDINBURGH’S only Islamic radio station is set for a major expansion after attracting thousands of listeners.
Radio Ramadan, which features interviews, phone-ins and recitations from the Koran, operates from two cramped basement rooms donated by a design firm.
But it is now appealing for a bigger home as station bosses estimate up to 10,000 people are […]
Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Bob Corker joined Democrat Harold Ford Jr.’s campaign Friday in denouncing as “reprehensible” a radio commercial attacking Ford and sponsored by a group calling itself “Tennesseans for Truth.”
Corker’s campaign learned of the ad being aired on a Gallatin radio station after being contacted by Ford’s campaign on Friday, according to Corker […]
KFNC (97.5 FM) will become ESPN Radio’s Houston affiliate in January, giving the city three all-sports radio stations, the general manager of the Cumulus Media-owned station said Tuesday.
Pat Fant, the longtime Houston radio executive who is Cumulus’ Houston market manager, said the station will mix ESPN Radio programming with one or more local shows and, […]
THE south’s first commercial radio station is celebrating its 20th birthday this week. Ocean, now based in Segensworth, near Fareham, was launched in October 1986 as Ocean Sound and later became Ocean FM.
Staff celebrated with a party to welcome an old face back to their studios.
The station’s first ever breakfast DJ, Guy Hornsby - who […]
The owners of the New South Wales far south coast’s commercial broadcasting station, 2EC, are worried that new media ownership laws will restrict the development of regional radio.
Proposed media ownership laws require a minimum of four-and-a-half hours a day of local content and at least 12-and-a-half minutes of local news.
Cameron Broadcasters’ managing director, Grant Cameron, […]
enerous members of the community have replaced the money stolen from the Northampton County SPCA this past weekend.
Police say a thief broke into the building in Williams Township through a window and stole 850 dollars.
A local morning radio show auctioned off a vacation to replace the money.
It was a great success– 35-hundred dollars was raised […]
The College of St. Rose in Albany, N.Y., has launched an Internet-only radio station.
Radio St. Rose debuted at noon Oct. 10, the first radio station in the college’s history. Hosted through the St. Rose Web site, the noncommercial webcast will offer theme-based music programs and a forum for students, faculty and the community to […]
Ryan Adams has launched the radio station Cardinal Radio on Ryanadams.com.
Presented by Chuck Norris, the show features 12 new Adams tracks.
The dozen untitled, thrashy songs recall Adams’ punk band The Finger
The singer has also being experiementing with rap, having recently posted the Beck - esque ‘Look Who’s Got A Website’ on the site.
The weak radio signal that carried the spicy and flavorful sounds of Haitian Creole music came to a white-noise end late Thursday night, as authorities pulled the plug on the broadcast and jailed the DJ.
The music emanated from a small transmitter tucked inside an apartment north of Tampa. The signal, at 89.3 FM, didn’t travel […]
Radio station WJZF, located off the Standish Glen Road in Standish, is replacing its 40-foot radio antenna with one that’s four times bigger.
“The new antenna is 160 feet tall,” said station owner and operator David Patterson. “It will allow us broader coverage and clearer coverage in the areas we are already in.”
The station, started in […]
