Syndication One talker Warren Ballentine lost a portion of his 3 hour syndicated radio show in Atlanta this week when CBS Radio WAOK (1380 AM) dropped the first hour of his daily show to make room for Westwood One’s Gayle King Show . The loss of the 10A-11A hour is a setback for Ballentine who fought to get back into the Atlanta market after Radio One Urban AC WAMJ-FM dropped both Ballentine and Al Sharpton from their line-up back in January 2009.

KIIS Los Angeles and nationally syndicated radio personality JoJo Wright is in for a busy summer. Wright,  host of  “JoJo on the Radio,” announced today the launch of Make it Wright with JoJo, a summer-long initiative in which he will lend a hand to a different cause every weekday this summer. JoJo is asking his friends, fans, followers and listeners, as well as any organizations looking for his support, to get in touch via Twitter and Facebook to suggest deserving causes for him to help …

Tom Leykis in his continuing quest to change the face of syndicated radio is set to launch what he calls “New Normal Music.” He describes the new format as “an adrenaline rush of hooky, energetic music culled from the pulse of what college-age males are listening to across a broad range of kinetic genres.”
“In today’s corporate run radio, the pressure has long been on to keep new music off the air,” Leykis explains. “Research has dictated that stations tell audiences they’re playing ‘new’ music while serving them the comfort zone …

Premiere Radio Networks has announced a deal to become the exclusive source for Redlasso’s proprietary Pro Prep Service, which the network will offer on a barter basis throughout North America. Redlasso’s service is designed specifically for radio, allowing users to quickly and easily create custom audio clips from hundreds of sources to use on-air. “We’re excited to partner with Redlasso to provide radio stations with this unique audio asset,” said Premiere President/Content and Affiliations Julie Talbott about the just-announced deal. “The Pro Prep …

FOX News Radio and Clear Channel have signed an extension that keeps the syndicated radio news network providing news for some 100 CC stations for the next five years.  FOX’s full-service, general-interest news offering features FOX News’ top talent and includes a five-minute top-of-the-hour newscast, a nightly signature news broadcast, and 24/7 dedicated national news coverage. Also under the agreement, FOX News Radio will …

The Elvis Duran Group, the entertainment company owned by syndicated radio personality Elvis Duran, has partnered with former ABC Radio SVP of Programming John McConnell to launch a new syndication division. Launched in 2007, The Elvis Duran Group is an entertainment company owned by Duran and talent agent David Katz that focuses on creating content for radio, television, broadband, internet, theater and film. McConnell will be based in New York and will work with Katz to develop content and talent for the group.
Though radio syndication is the primary …

Citadel Media announced the addition of respected economist and CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow to its News Talk portfolio. The Larry Kudlow Show weekend syndicated radio show launched on WABC New York in 2006. It will be available in national syndication beginning 6/5. A nationally syndicated columnist, noted author and editor for National Review, Kudlow also hosts The Kudlow Report and is a co-host on The Call on CNBC.
“Larry Kudlow’s insightful opinions on money, politics and the economy are rooted in his understanding of the way Wall Street, Main Street and …

Talk Radio Network’s Michael Savage is the featured subject in June’s Playboy Magazine. The article culled from a 16 hour no holds barred interview conducted by Contributing Editor, David Hochman covers a wide range of topics from Savage’s life experience to political views on same sex marriage and even opinions about other radio personalities. Hochman said of the encounter with the controversial Savage, “I can’t remember a more difficult interview. Savage was a fine host, but his opin­ions are extreme…But he was just as leery …

The Biggest Loser trainer and new “Losing It With Jillian” host Jillian Michaels had a  KFI Los Angeles radio show turned podcast a few years ago,  and in a recent examiner.com interview with Gail Geden Spencer hints at a desire to clear her schedule enough to fit in a syndicated radio or satellite radio show. Jillian knows that radio gives her a chance to get deeply into the kind of food, diet and exercise advice that she doles out and right now is one of the few places where you …

Tom Leykis has officially launched  his new company The New Normal with its first original content, the “Gary and Dino Show,” a podcast featuring the  former producers of his CBS Radio/Westwood One show, Gary Zabransky and Dean Dimilio.  The new show is the first in what Leykis promises will be a series of audio content produced to be distributed across several media platforms. Leykis engineer Art Webb and veteran syndicated radio affiliate relations executive Liz Laud, who worked with Leykis in the early days of the …