TKO Radio Network’s Classic Top 40 format adds Rick Dees to its syndicated radio lineup with a special version of Weekly Top 40 featuring hits of the ’80s. Dees takes over the slot from Charlie Tuna.
“This is a perfect match,” TKO’s Susan Thompson said. “The Dees name is synonymous with Top 40 radio, and we [...]
Triton Media, together with Jelli , the company that puts radio in the hands of its listeners, announced that their new crowdsourced radio programs, Rock Jelli and Pop Jelli, have launched into national syndication. They will air in markets from coast to coast — from Las Vegas to Bozeman to Boston to Philadelphia. Programs are [...]
Premiere Radio Networks announced today it will launch a new weekend syndicated radio show for Top 40 stations called Club Kane beginning March 28. Hosted by Kane, morning show host at Clear Channel WIHT (Hot 99.5) Washington D.C., the new program will air Sundays from 7 p.m. to midnight local time.
Each week, Kane will play [...]
Westwood One and Harpo Radio, Inc. today announced a multi-year partnership to distribute The Gayle King Show, a two-hour, daily syndicated radio talk program hosted by newscaster and television personality Gayle King. The partnership will include distribution of additional Harpo Radio programming, including Gayle King Evening, a new, five-hour weeknight entertainment program featuring music, guests [...]
Talkers Magazine has released it’s annual list of Talk Radio’s “Heavy Hundred” and Premiere Radio Network and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck (#5 in 2008) has leaped over Michael Savage as the 3rd most influential talker in America, behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The list “heavily” weighted toward conservative talk hosts, is part of [...]
Congratulations to Syndicated Solutions and President Bob Carey as they celebrate their 11th year in the syndicated radio business. The company launched in February 1999 and distributes a roster of shows including the Rick and Bubba and Allen Hunt shows, Rudy Maxa’s World with Christopher Elliot, DC and Family and other long-form and short-form programming. [...]
The FCC has granted Rocking M Radio’s request for a declaratory ruling that affiliation agreements two of its stations, KSMM-A-F Liberal, KS, had with Steckline Communications Inc. violated Commission rules. Rocking M flipped the stations to Spanish language formats and told Steckline that it would no longer carry the English-language Mid-America AG Network and Mid-America [...]
A memorandum was distributed to the staff at Air America Media this afternoon. It read in part:
“It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter [...]
Larry King has been on the radio since 1957, but it in the next few weeks weeks he’ll be pulling his last radio shift. Westwood One has told affiliates it will end the distribution of the CNN simulcast on New Year’s Eve.
Starting January 1 they’ll fill the timeslot with a rebroadcast of the “Fred [...]
Arbitron, Dial-Global, Premiere Radio Networks, and Westwood One are partnering in an initiative they hope will improve how radio is incorporated into marketing mix models that are widely used by advertisers to evaluate how product sales are influenced by advertising via different combinations of media.
The consortium will fund the initiative and work with the leading [...]