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Cumulus Files Countersuit Against Paul Finebaum. Cumulus Media has now filed a countersuit against Sports Talk afternoon host Paul Finebaum, in the ongoing contract dispute between him and former Citadel station WJOX-FM, Birmingham. The Cumulus suit charges that Finebaum violated his contract by talking to a competing station about moving his show as early as [...]
Continue Reading New York’s ‘Now’ Soon to Be ‘Then’?
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Cumulus Brings ‘Great Country’ to Kalamazoo. Cumulus brings its new “Great Country” featuring “The 90s to Now” to Kalamazoo, Michigan, on a translator as “Great Country 102.5″ launches with 10,000 songs in a row. The station is on translator W273AR, licensed to Paw Paw, operating with 250 watts. The translator is fed by the HD2 [...]
Continue Reading RAB: Second Consecutive Year of Growth for Radio
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U.S. Attorney Files Objection To Inner City Bankruptcy Sale. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has filed an objection in bankruptcy court to the proposed sale of the assets of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says the sale is being pursued to avoid taxes without cash flowing to [...]
Continue Reading FCC Nominations Still On Hold
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Cumulus Appoints Donny Walker Senior Director of Affiliate Sales for Country. Cumulus Media Networks appoints Donny Walker as Senior Director of Affiliate Sales for Country. Walker will oversee operations and community relations, while also managing multiple national accounts and existing sales teams. “Donny has been the driving force behind the successful distribution of the biggest [...]
Continue Reading Beasley Changes Two Fort Myers Stations: WRXK-FM Flips To Talk, WJBX-FM Now Rocks
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Programmer Dom Theodore Exits CBS Radio. CBS Radio VP of Top 40 Programming Dom Theodore has exited. Theodore was also the Program Director for CHR-Top40 stations “92.3 Now” WXRK-FM, New York, and “98.7 Amp Radio” WDZH-FM, Detroit. He says he will focus on his consulting business and expanding his family’s company, Up North Radio. No [...]
Continue Reading [NewsBriefs] Programmer Dom Theodore Exits CBS Radio
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Exits Reported at Merlin Media’s WEMP-FM New York. TPMedia NewsPage has now confirmed that Merlin Media New York VP of Programming Liz Aiello has exited, as have Senior Director of Digital Programming Rich McLaughlin, and VP of Production Jerry Rohira. Merlin Media operates struggling “FM News 101.9″ WEMP-FM in New York, which like its Chicago [...]
Continue Reading CHR-Top40 ‘i97-5′ Debuts in Tucson with ‘All The Hits’
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Entercom Indianapolis Ups JR Ammons to OM. Entercom Indianapolis promotes Hot AC WZPL-FM Program Director JR Ammons to cluster Opeartions Manager. He will now also oversee Adult Variety Hits “My107.9″ WNTR-FM and News Talk WXNT-AM. Says Ammons, “I’m really excited about what we have going on at Entercom Indianapolis. GM Jenny Skjodt has done a [...]
Continue Reading Salem Appoints Phil Boyce Director of Spoken Word
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Emmis Borrows More for Preferred Stock Buyback. Emmis Communications has made the final of its four available draws borrowing from $35 million available from the Zell Credit Opportunities Master Fund, according to an SEC filing. The final $600,000 borrowed from Zell makes a total of $31.9 million drawn from the Note Purchase Agreement between the [...]
Continue Reading Ryan Seacrest Receives $300M Investments from Clear Channel, Thomas H. Lee and Bain Capital
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AFTRA Board Agrees to Merger with SAG. News that the AFTRA Board has approved the plan for merging with SAG came Saturday night, just about 24 hours after the first reports that the national board of the Screen Actors Guild had overwhelmingly approved the merger plan voting 87% to 13% in favor. The long-sought marriage [...]
Continue Reading [NewsBriefs] AFTRA Board Agrees to Merger with SAG
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Geraldo Rivera Will Be in Los Angeles Monday. Geraldo Rivera will be in Los Angeles Monday (Jan. 30) for the debut of his new talk show there on KABC-AM. Gary Lycan writes for the Orange County Register that Geraldo will arrive in L.A. Sunday, to broadcast his first KABC-AM show “live and local.” Rivera’s second [...]
Continue Reading Strata Survey: Ad Spending Climbs; Digital Hits Plateau?
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