Former BET, PBS and NPR/Public Radio International host Tavis Smiley’s Smiley Audio Company will launch its new Black Talk format on 1580 KBLA Santa Monica/Los Angeles on Saturday, June 19. The Juneteenth launch follows Smiley’s purchase of the station last fall from Multicultural Radio Broadcasting for $7.15 million. Smiley has tapped Elston Howard Butler to […] […]

BBC Radio 6 Music afternoon show presenter Shaun Keaveny is leaving BBC Radio 6 Music later this year. […]

Audacy has announced the appointment of Melissa Chase as Brand Manager of Adult Hits “95.7 The Spot” KKHH and Hot AC “Mix 96.5” KHMX Houston starting July 1. Chase departed her role as Operations Manager for SummitMedia Richmond and morning host on Hot AC “103.7 Your Variety“ WURV in late May. She had been PD/morning […] […]

Standard General’s MediaCo Holding Inc., owners of Hip Hop “Hot 97” WQHT and Adult R&B 107.5 WBLS New York as well as Fairway Outdoor has appointed Rahsan-Rahsan Lindsay as CEO and Bradford Tobin As President/COO effective July 1. Lindsay joins MediaCo from Urban One, where he has spent the past nine years as Executive Vice […] […]

GB News Radio is planning to launch on Digital One in July. […]

London small-scale DAB stations, NME 1 and CDNX, are the first stations in the UK to install the newly updated Open Source DAB+ encoder. […]