Category Archives: Radio Biz

O’Reilly out at Fox?

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Fred Stiening

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/sources-fox-news-has-decided-bill-oreilly-has-to-go.html That would be pretty foolish. O’Reilly could do enormous damage to the News Corp empire with his knowledge from the inside. Bill O’Reilly has a face for radio, if he ever decides to return.

Posted in Talk Radio | 6 Comments

WCHB-AM in Detroit Sold

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Fred Stiening

WCHB-AM (1200 kHz) is an urban talk station owned by Radio One, the national radio owner focused on serving the black community. Mildrid Gaddis is a long time radio personality and activist in the Detroit Area – she will move … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio One, Station Sales / Transfers | 2 Comments

Rusty Humphries leaves syndicated radio again

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Fred Stiening

The collapse of independent talk radio syndication (non iHeart and Cumulus/Westwood One) has narrowed the employment possibilities, even for experienced hosts. When Talk Radio Network started having difficulties, Rusty added a job working for WGST-AM in Atlanta. When TRN fell … Continue reading →

Posted in Syndicators, USA Radio | Leave a comment

Congress repeals “internet privacy” protections

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Fred Stiening

Washington Post The FCC is not part of the executive branch – it is an independent commission that is accountable to Congress. The only authority the FCC has is to do those things delegated to it by Congress by law … Continue reading →

Posted in The FCC, Trump 2017 | 1 Comment

Variety Magazine: Bob Pittman may not be able to save iHeart

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Fred Stiening

Time is running out for iHeart / Clear Channel and Cumulus iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman’s Efforts May Not Be Enough to Avoid Looming Bankruptcy I await the rebirth of radio patiently. It may well just return to dust, but the … Continue reading →

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Introducing Shannon Joy

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Fred Stiening

On September 9th, 2016, radio host Bill Nojay called 911 to be sure that a police officer would respond and witness his suicide. He was due to report to Federal Court to face charges of fraud on his management of … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservative Talk | 2 Comments

Meghan McCain gets shown the door

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Fred Stiening

Countess spotted this before I did. Maybe I can add her to the staff as a hard news reporter. If I teach her how to use Google News, this could become a “go to” radio news site So Meghan signed … Continue reading →

Posted in Buck Sexton, IHeart Media, Premiere (IHeart) | 3 Comments

CBS Radio to be merged into Entercom

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Fred Stiening

The rumors were true http://www.cbscorporation.com/2017/02/cbs-corporation-and-entercom-announce-merger-of-cbs-radio-with-entercom-to-create-preeminent-radio-platform/ Thanks to JerseyDevil for breaking the story while I was asleep having nightmares about ostriches looking in my windows. The deal is structured as a tax free exchange called a Reverse Morris Trust. CBS shareholders … Continue reading →

Posted in CBS, Entercom | 7 Comments

Man convicted of Home Invasion of Stu Epperson Jr

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Fred Stiening

Winston Salem Journal Stu Epperson Jr is the son of the cofounder of the Salem media networks (SALM). A man attempted to break into his house and was caught by the police. The original story was kept fairly discrete, but … Continue reading →

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Radio Navigation

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Fred Stiening

Here is a remnant of history back to the early days of aviation and radio. This image is from Gunnison Colorado. Back in the early days of commercial and military aviation, flying your airplane and not crashing was a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio Biz | 5 Comments