Category Archives: Radio Biz

So you want local?

In the Urbana Champaign Illinois area, a new “local” talk outlet has opened.     I’m not saying it’s gonna fail, but….   The owner is simulcasting their schedule on two stations – WJEK-FM (1900 watt Class A) and WSJK-FM (9 kW Class … Continue reading →

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Dr Dean Edell is retiring from radio

Who will be the last one out the door? This may be related to a decision by the management of Citadel Radio to drop the Dr Edell show from his home station of KGO in San Francisco.   The man who had managed … Continue reading →

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Dr Laura moves to Sirius XM

We knew she was leaving Premiere at the end of the year – now we know the destination. Satellite radio depends mostly on subscriber revenue instead of ad revenue. Dr Laura has several groups trying to shut her down – … Continue reading →

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Bustos Media rises from the ashes

The Radio Business is blessed – so far, Tim Geithner and President Obama have not deemed it necessary to “rescue” radio.  Of the “Big Radio Owners” I profiled back in 2008, about half of them have gone through bankruptcy and/or … Continue reading →

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Art Bell’s Radio Station – KNYE-FM

This is really old news, but I hadn’t noticed it before now and found it interesting.   Art Bell has long been the owner of radio station KNYE-FM in his home town of Pahrump, Nevada. If you’ve followed Art Bell’s recent … Continue reading →

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“Ducking” the caller

The other day while testing, I stumbled on a station that was accidentally streaming a conversation between the host and the engineer (or producer… not sure).   They were setting up a new device for the station called a “Telos” and … Continue reading →

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Guarding your “Junk”

This business about the TSA “enhanced” screening is creating a variety of reactions from talk show hosts – they seem to be falling into one of three groups: This is a bad idea because I read it on the Drudge … Continue reading →

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Whois NutritionMarket.com?

TRN has been running sponsorship messages on all of its programming for several months for a web site called NutritionMarket.com.  Who are they? The domain is registered through a low cost registrar called GoDaddy.com.   The actual owner information is being … Continue reading →

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Phil Hendrie Goes Local

We seem to have a trend.   Tom Taylor’s newsletter reports today that TRN’s Phil Hendrie will be doing a 7-10PM local show on KFI in Los Angeles on Saturdays.   This comes a few days after Rusty Humphries announced he will … Continue reading →

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MTV and AOL – meet Clear Channel

The past two days, Tom Taylor has been leading with the news that Robert Pittman is becoming involved with Clear Channel and might even be looking to facilitate a buyout.   This seems extremely plausible and nobody knows the radio business … Continue reading →

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Radio Abhors a Vacuum

Salem Radio has announced they are changing the format of KLFE.-AM in Seattle to the standard News/talk format (Bennett / Gallagher / Hewitt / Prager + Dennis Miller and Mark Levin.  This fills the hole recently vacated by KVI-AM, although … Continue reading →

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Progressive Politics and Pellagra

A few days ago, a “progressive host” made the claim that before the progressives came along and forced government to require all flour to be enriched, people were suffering from a disease called Pellagra – so those ignorant Tea Party people … Continue reading →

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Don’t jump onto a sinking ship

In 2007, a guy named Sam Zell took over Tribune Company in Chicago – the company that owned WGN, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, 23 TV stations and had been part owner of the WB TV network (and other assorted media … Continue reading →

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Rusty Humphries goes Local

Tom Taylor is reporting that Rusty Humphries has accepted a job in Atlanta, working evenings for WGST (owned by Clear Channel).  WGST-AM goes to 1000 watts after the sun goes down, which still covers most of the Atlanta Metro area.   … Continue reading →

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KVI – “No Apologies”

KVI-AM in Seattle, Washington has as its slogan “Conservative Talk…No Apologies!”. As of next Monday, KVI is dropping Conservative Talk to switch to AM “oldies” music. So Sorry.

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