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Beasley Media Group’s “98.5 The Sports Hub” WBZ-FM Boston has announced that its “Toucher & Rich” will enter regional syndication on Monday, October 25. The show will be made available to stations in New England to create a daypart competitor to the regional network of stations carrying programming from Audacy’s 93.7 WEEI-FM. No launch affiliates […] […]

Audacy has announced it has acquired an exclusive, perpetual license to WideOrbit’s digital audio streaming technology and its related assets and operations of WO Streaming. Audacy will rebrand the platform to AmperWave with the entire WO Streaming team joining the company. The backend technology will help to power the streaming backend of Audacy’s app and […] […]

Stonecom has launched two new stations in its Cookeville TN cluster with the launch of Classic Country “96.9 Highway 111 Country” WUCH Algood and “SportsRadio 104.7” W284DR Cookeville/106.9 WKXD-HD3 Monterey. WUCH is the former 104.7 WLIV-FM Monterey as it completed its move into Clarksville. The station launched in mid-September playing Country hits from the 80s […] […]

Townsquare Media has announced the appointment of Jim Kovacik as Director of Content for their four stations in Victoria TX. Kovacik is best known for his 30 year run at Radio One Hip Hop “97.9 The Box” KBXX as morning show producer and co-host under the names ‘Jimbo’ and ‘Jim Beazy’ from 1991 to 2020. […] […]

After becoming the largest single shareholder of iHeartMedia following its 2018 bankruptcy restructuring, Liberty Media has sold its stake in the company. In an SEC filing dated October 5, Liberty revealed it has sold its remaining stake of 5,941,248 shares at an average price of $25.25 per share netting the company $150,016,512. Liberty had previously […] […]

Even when Top 40 was beginning its rebound in the mid-‘90s, ending the 1993-95 period when the format looked like it could truly become extinct, there were stations still changing format to something else, and group heads saying that the traditional “all-the-hits” model of Top 40 would never exist again. Musically, I feel cautiously optimistic […] […]