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Cuts This Week At iHeartMedia

A restructuring of the programming departments is ongoing the past few days at iHeartMedia, mostly on the Country format side. It is not yet known how many names are affected and the company has yet to comment on the moves. There are other names we have heard that have not yet become public. Among those […] […]

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Saga Spins Part Of Wind-FM In Gainesville/Ocala

Saga Communications is selling 107.9 WNDN Chiefland FL to John Elliott’s Suncoast Radio for $150,000. WNDN, which covers the areas west of Gainesville, is currently part of the Classic Rock “Wind-FM” trimulcast along with 92.5 WNDD Alachua/Gainesville and 95.5 WYND-FM Silver Springs/Ocala. The deal includes the WNDN tower site, which is also home to the […] […]

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Radioplayer Announces US Launch; Adds Ken Lloyd As US Partnerships Lead

Radioplayer, the international broadcast app platform built upon the concept of “Share technology, Compete on content” has announced it will enter the US market. Originally launched in 2011 after being proposed by the BBC as a “pan-industry partnership aimed at growing online radio listening”. The platform started as a shared web player with 157 stations […] […]

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Hearing the ’80s Again in Real Time

In the U.S., Laser 558 was a station profiled once in Radio & Records. In the UK, it was a big story in commercial radio, an offshore AM station in pirate radio tradition that was tighter and more Americanized than the more full-service presentations of BBC Radio 1 and commercial broadcasters. Laser launched in 1984; […] […]

UK

Lucy Owen announced as permanent replacement for Carol Vorderman on BBC Radio Wales

Lucy Owen from Wales Today has been appointed as permanent host of Carol Vorderman’s old Saturday lunchtime show on BBC Radio Wales after covering it for the last few months. There’s also a few other schedule changes taking place over the next couple of weeks. Bronwen Lewis focuses on her love of country music from […] […]

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97.5 The Fanatic Launches New Lineup With Kincade and Salciunas In Mornings

Beasley Media Sports “97.5 The Fanatic” WPEN-FM Burlington NJ/Philadelphia has revealed a new on-air lineup debuting on Monday, March 18. Current midday host Andrew Salciunas will move up to mornings to join John Kincade and producer Connor Thomas. Salciunas has spent his entire career at WPEN-FM, mostly as a producer before moving up to host […] […]