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FCC Nominations (Finally) Set for Senate Confirmation? In case you’ve forgotten after all this time, there are supposed to be five FCC Commissioners, not just three as has been the case. Now, just one day after saying he’s no closer to a settlement to allow Senate confirmation of two FCC appointees, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) [...]

Continue Reading Entercom Set to Take Over San Francisco’s KBLX-FM May 1 — Steve Harvey’s Syndicated Morning Show Will Be Added May 7

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Pandora Bigger Than Radio in Los Angeles? (Not Really!) New data from The Media Audit, based on a survey done in late 2011, claims that Pandora had the largest audience in the Los Angeles market. According to its survey from September and October of 2011, 1.9 million people tuned in to Pandora, topping the 1.4 [...]

Continue Reading ESPN Radio Moving to 98.7 FM In New York

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Arbitron Drops Seven Diary Markets. Arbitron is dropping seven small diary markets from its ratings service, according to Arbitron’s Spring Diary pre-survey bulletin. Two other markets will be redefined in the Spring survey. The markets being dropped are Ann Arbor, Michigan; Columbus-Starkville-West Point, MS; Dubuque, IA; Mason City, IA; Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, MI; Sebring, FL; and [...]

Continue Reading NOW Launches ‘Enough Rush’ Campaign Directed at Local Advertisers, Radio Stations

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Supreme Court Asked to Consider Appeal of Janet Jackson ‘Nip Slip’ Ruling. The Obama Administration asks the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on another indecency case. The administration has filed a brief seeking a review of the FCC’s appeal of a lower court ruling that the $550,000 fine levied against CBS and its affiliates in [...]

Continue Reading Arbitron Reports Q1 Net Income Up 9.6%

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HD Radio Chipset for Smartphones Unveiled. The promised new chipset to enable HD Radio on cellphones was unveiled in Las Vegas Monday. A joint effort of the NAB, iBiquity, Intel and Emmis Interactive, the low-power, low-cost, high processing HD chipset was demonstrated at the NAB Show. The developers of the new techology call it “revolutionary” [...]

Continue Reading Howard Stern Lawsuit Against SiriusXM Dismissed With Prejudice

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[Airplay at the CHR-Top40 and Hot Adult Components of Total Popular Music]  Sunday, April 15, 2012     +     WE ARE YOUNG FUN.FEATURING JANELLE MONAE   TPMonitoring     RadioActivity  Current    Prior   Day          Day  17.73 | 17.63   2 –  STRONGER (WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU)  KELLY CLARKSON 16.58 16.85   3 =  GLAD YOU CAME  THE WANTED 16.27 16.27 [...]

Continue Reading [Promo] Sunday’s TPM Hit Music Daily Dozen

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Arbitron CFO Richard Surratt Stepping Down. Arbitron announces that CFO Richard Surratt will be leaving the company for personal reasons. Surratt will continue as Chief Financial Officer through May 11, 2012 and will remain as an employee of the company through June 8. Arbitron says that Sean Creamer, in addition to his current responsibilities as [...]

Continue Reading WTOP-FM Top Billing U.S. Station

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Ritch Cassidy Joins NRG Media Wausau as Brand Director. Ritch Cassidy is named Brand Director for NRG Media’s Country “Y106.5″ WYTE-FM and CHR-Top40 “Hot 96.7″ WHTQ-FM, Wausau-Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He succeeds Brad Austin, who exits the company. Cassidy will oversee all programming and promotional execution for the two stations, effective immediately. He arrives with more [...]

Continue Reading ‘Pandora’s Great Deception’ — TPMedia Publisher Mark Harris Responds to Pandora ‘Ratings Metrics’

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Bloomington Gets Sports Talk. Great Plains Media Classic Hits WZIM-FM, Bloomington, Illinois, flips to Fox Sports Radio as “99.5 The Ticket” offering the market’s first Sports Talk station. Former WZIM-FM Program Director Steve Uselton is named cluster Promotions Director, while “Cities 92.9″ WRPW-FM PD Robert Rees adds PD for “99.5 The Ticket.” Dallas WBAP Host [...]

Continue Reading Pandora Claims March Listening Hours Pass One Billion

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[Airplay at the CHR-Top40 and Hot Adult Components of Total Popular Music] For an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this week’s Super Sixty, including summaries of Greatest Gainers and Biggest Losers, be sure to read the latest edition of our weekly column “Chart Chat” by Mark Harris.   It’s online every Sunday afternoon, when the new [...]

Continue Reading [Promo] The New TPM Super Sixty

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