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Salem Media Promotes David Santrella To CEO and David Evans To COO

Salem Media Group has announced a series of upper level executive changes as company founders Edward Atsinger III and Stuart Epperson prepare to move into new roles. Atsinger, who had served as CEO since its founding, will shift to the newly created role of Executive Chairman assuming leadership of the board of directors while providing […] […]

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BIA Releases List Of Top Billers Of 2020

BIA Advisory Services has belatedly released its list of the top billing stations for 2020. For the sixth consecutive year (and ten of the past eleven years), Hubbard News 103.5 WTOP Washington DC remains the top biller in the country. Thanks to its reliance on political advertising, WTOP took a smaller hit than most of […] […]

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Why Classic Hits Should Play the ‘60s Again

The Beatles have always been the ultimate challenge to whether radio can really determine relevance by the age of a song. A decade or so ago, Classic Hits radio programmers decided to move on from the Beatles; one group PD expressed concern to me that those George Martin productions were sounding creaky now. Then the […] […]

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KABQ To Flip To Fox Sports

iHeartMedia has announced that the currently stunting “Santa 1350” KABQ Albuquerque will flip to Sports “Fox Sports 1350” on Monday, January 3. KABQ will air the national Fox Sports Radio lineup 24/7 with the exception of a replay of the Dan Patrick Show from 11am to 2pm in place of “The Herd with Colin Cowherd”. […] […]