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Townsquare Divestiture Trust Surrenders Washington FM License

Townsquare Media’s Tri Cities Divestiture Trust has turned in the license of the former Classic Hits “97.5 Kool-FM” KOLW Basin City/Kennewick WA. Overseen by trustee Alan Blum, the trust was created in 2022 following Townsquare’s purchase of Cherry Creek Media that brought both company’s clusters in the Kennewick/Richland/Pasco market together. At the time of closing, […] […]

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The Best Billboard Top 10 in Ages?

The good news about Top 40 was coming in at a fairly rapid clip last week. I profiled WKST (96.1 Kiss) Pittsburgh, Pa., and WHTZ (Z100) New York, but May’s PPM ratings had two dozen other success stories I could have as easily written about. (WRVW [The River] Nashville went 4.9-5.8 later that day, along […] […]

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Former KOKE-FM Airstaff Joins Austin’s 95.9 Texas Country

The majority of the airstaff of KOKE-FM Austin will make the move to Audacy’s new “95.9 Texas Country” K240EL/KKMJ-HD3 Austin starting Monday, June 24. Bob Cole and Eric Raines will host mornings from 6-10am. Deena Blake will follow in middays from 10am-3pm with Raines also hosting afternoons from 3-7pm. The trio had been heard in […] […]

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Cumulus Promotes Alex Cadelago To Regional Vice President

Cumulus Media Houston VP/Market Manager Alex Cadelago has been promoted to Regional Vice President adding oversight of the company’s Albuquerque and Tucson markets. Cadelago will report to President of Operations Dave Milner with Albuquerque VP/MM Jeff Berry and Tucson VP/MM Ken Kowalcek reporting to him. Cadalego has overseen CHR 104.1 KRBE Houston since 2014 after […] […]

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Chris Kinard Rises To Audacy Sports Format Vice President

Audacy has promoted Chris Kindard to Sports Format Vice President. Kinard will continue in his roles as VP/Sports Programming, Washington DC Director of Operations, and PD of “106.7 The Fan” WJFK-FM, “980 The Team” WTEM and Classic Hits “94.7 The Drive” WIAD. He has been with the cluster since 1998 joining then Hot Talk 106.7 […] […]

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Station Sales Week of 6/21

The Adrian Eddleman led Liberty Radio of Camden agrees to purchase Country “The Bee” 95.9 WRJB and 99.7 W259BN Camden TN from Lisa Richardson’s Community Broadcast Services for $140,000. An LMA took effect on April 25. Eddleman will own 34% of the new station group, Stewart Heath 33%, and Eagle Communications Inc. 33%. Eagle owns […] […]