Christian radio broadcaster Salem Communications has announced a strategic partnership with TuneIn, a free Internet radio service. The move extends the reach of Salem’s programming to the service’s more than 30 million monthly active listeners in over 230 countries. Salem owns 96 radio outlets, 60 of which are in 22 of the top 25 radio markets, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. “Our goal at TuneIn is to make the best in radio accessible …

Premiere Networks launches Big D and Bubba’s Weekend Wake-Up beginning April 14. The four-hour Saturday morning show will feature interviews and performances by Country stars, as well as Big D and Bubba’s skits and banter. The launch of Weekend Wake-Up follows the duo’s third CMA Award nomination in the “National Broadcast Personality of the Year” category in 2011. Big D stated, “Sleeping in on Saturdays is overrated.” Bubba added, “We’re looking forward to waking up …

Monday marked the long-awaited debut of Cumulus Media Networks newest talker, Mike Huckabee. The Mike Huckabee Show launched on some 180 affiliates nationwide, with WOR New York, KLIF Dallas, KSEV Houston and KSFO San Francisco among the show’s charter affiliates. With the  new mantra “more conversation, less confrontation,” Huckabee hit the air today at noon (ET), assisted by Executive Producer Renee Bakos, technical and creative director Joey Salvia and call screener Casey Acevedo. Commenting on …

Syndication One syndicated radio morning personality Rickey Smiley has tasted life on television before-as part of a rotating group of radio hosts who dish on the day’s topics on FOX TV’s “Dish Nation”. Now the syndicated radio host gets to star in a new TV sitcom based on his own complicated life.  TV One, a subsidiary of Radio One has just announced its new lineup for the 2012-2-13 season, and “The Rickey Smiley Show,” based …

Starting in May, Cumulus Media Networks will offer four daily features exploring topics relating to health and wellness hosted by Chief CNN Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Two of the features are targeted for news/talk stations with two geared toward music and entertainment stations. The features are a first in syndicated radio for Gupta who is a practicing neurosurgeon and serves as chief medical correspondent for CNN. Cumulus chairman, president and CEO Lew Dickey says, …

Steve Harvey’s new syndicated daily TV talk show from NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution just got picked up for the fall, and as a result he’s moving the base of his Premiere syndicated radio morning show operations from Atlanta to Chicago. TimeOut Chicago’s Robert Feder says the new Steve Harvey television show will be taped at the NBC Tower and could bring 100 jobs and as much as $25 million to Chicago. The show has been …

“CMT Radio Live with Cody Alan” will have a new syndication partner effective March 26 when Cumulus Media Networks takes over as the official distributor.  Cumulus will manage all syndication and ad sales and distribution to all its owned and operated stations and non-owned and operated stations as well as its continuing to expand the number of new affiliates. CMT Radio Live with Cody Alan” airs weeknights from 7-12am and weekends on select stations. The …

Compass Media Networks has announced a joint syndicated radio venture with home improvement guru Bob Vila to produce a short-form original home improvement vignettes, voiced by Vila beginning May 1. Vila is best known as the host of America’s leading television home-improvement shows over the past three decades, including “This Old House” (1979-1989), “Bob Vila’s Home Again” (1990-2005), and “Bob Vila” (2005-2007) and as head of the home improvement site, BobVila.com. “Radio offers an incredible …

Former “Flashback” host Bill St. James has joined with the United Stations Radio Networks for a new syndicated radio classic rock program, “Time Warp With Bill St. James.”  The four-hour weekend show is produced by RTE Media, created by Dan Formento after the departure of he and St. James from Cumulus Media’s syndicated “Flashback” show- now hosted by Matt Pinfield.  St. James is the announcer for NBC-TV’s “Sunday Night Football,” The Super Bowl” and “The Olympics,” …

Talker Magazines’ Mona Lipschitz is reporting that the log jam between two of syndicated radio’s top progressive talkers is about to be let loose. In a rare act of cooperation between syndicated voices Ed Schultz and Thom Hartmann (both distributed by syndicator Dial Global and airing in the same 12P-3P daily time slot,)  Hartmann has agreed to move his daily show to 3P-6P. The move will allow stations to air them both live without having …