Clear Channel along with majority investors Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital, have entered into two new investment agreements with Ryan Seacrest Media “designed to drive business growth across multiple media platforms.” The entities have committed up to $300 million to working with RSM to “identify, acquire and develop innovative media companies, media content and other media properties that can be leveraged to support a range of media enterprises.”
Under a separate agreement, Clear Channel …

It’s one thing to have a multi-media presence, (see Ryan Seacrest, Nick Cannon) but it feels like syndicated radio personality, author, game show host, and comedian Steve Harvey is beginning to stretch himself a little too thin. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Harvey is developing for 2012, a “talk show with comedy elements” that will focus on relationship issues. After Harvey’s comments lambasting Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley for their criticism of President …

Syndicated radio personality and “American Idol” star Ryan Seacrest along with The Ryan Seacrest Foundation, launched THE VOICE at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia during a ribbon-cutting event held in the Hospital’s Colket Atrium, the new home of the interactive closed-circuit broadcast multi-media center. THE VOICE provides young patients within The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia community with an opportunity to engage in activities related to radio, TV and new media, ranging from broadcasting like a …

Call it the biggest and most elaborate live remote broadcast in radio history.  Clear Channel Radio announced today-on all 850 of its radio stations- The iHeartRadio Music Festival, a two-day music event hosted by Ryan Seacrest that will mark the biggest live radio concert festival in history.  The line-up will include: Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Steven Tyler, The Black Eyed Peas, Kenny Chesney, Jennifer Lopez, Carrie Underwood, Jane’s Addiction, Nicki Minaj, John Mayer, David …

Premiere syndicated radio talker Rush Limbaugh is #23 on the new Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world’s most powerful celebrities with an estimated recent yearly pay of $64 million. #24 is KIIS-FM, Los Angeles and Premiere Radio syndicated Ryan Seacrest, $61 million.  Sirius XM star Howard Stern is #26 on the list with $76 million. And #30 is Premiere talker Glenn Beck, with an estimated $40 million in pay.

Premiere Radio and Ryan Seacrest will launch “Direct From Hollywood,” a new weekday vignette for entertainment radio outlets. From the inside story on American Idol, to celebrity rumors, to breaking news from Hollywood, Seacrest takes listeners behind the velvet rope and gives them the scoop on their favorite stars.
The program is available weekdays and offered to stations as two one-minute vignettes. “Direct From Hollywood” already airs on nearly 80 …

Unlike the Regis and Kelly “Women of Radio” contest earlier this year the list of nominees for the “Men of Radio Co-host for a Day Search” is top heavy with big market and syndicated radio talent vying for a chance to sit down with Kelly Ripa while Regis takes a day off. Premiere Radio’s Ryan Seacrest and Steve Harvey, Yea Networks Kidd Kraddick and the self syndicated Big Boy are among the syndicated radio personalities …

Clear Channel has signed Ryan Seacrest to an expanded deal reportedly worth $60 million over three years.  The Los Angeles-based host will continue to anchor his daily and weekly syndicated radio shows while also creating new content for distribution across Clear Channel’s over-the-air and digital radio platform, serve as a spokesperson for Clear Channel and create joint ventures to develop and promote new musical artists and other multi-platform media …

This weekend  marks the 40th anniversary (July 4th 1970) of the debut of “American Top40″. New York Daily News columnist David Hinckley does a nice historical perspective on the show from the original created and hosted by Casey Kasem to the current incarnation hosted by (who else?) Ryan Seacrest.

A quote from a  LA Times interview with Ryan Seacrest last week has industry tongues waging. In the article Seacrest muses about American Idol past and present. Toward the end of Shirley Halperin’s interview with Seacrest the question was asked: “And you still like your job?” “I do like it. I actually really like my job. My jobs, I should say, I’m trying to figure how out how many more I can do. …