Author Archives: Fred Stiening

Donald J. Trump attended the Daytona 500 NASCAR race, and took a lap around the track in “The Beast”, the heavily armored limousine used to transport him from place to place. The crowd was enthusiastic. Secretary of State Marco Rubio … Continue reading →

Uncle Joe Biden just gave Zelinsky permission to send long-range missiles into Russia. Russia made it clear from the beginning that if they detect an attack attempting to hit the Kremlin that all bets are off. Hopefully you all remember … Continue reading →

Linode (now owned by Akamai) just inform me that this virtual server is being migrated to a different piece of hardware. It’s unlikely that there will be an issue, but in the event there is…

Listening to radio, NPR or otherwise, has not been a priority recently. This NPR insider report shows just how non-diverse the NPR diversity has become. inside radio NPR’s rebuttal is that the proof of their relevance is their increasing diversity, … Continue reading →

When CBS Radio was spun off and merged into Entercom creating Audacy, the CBS branding of CBS Sports Radio was agreed to be sunseted. While that date was pushed out, April 15th 2024 is the final end of CBS Sports … Continue reading →

When Rush Limbaugh died, it was pretty inevitable that his death would mark the end of most viable commercial AM radio stations in the United States, at least the English-speaking non-religious population. The bankruptcy of Audacy, the owner of the … Continue reading →

I’m not positive when this happened but I think it was very recently – the licensee of the radio stations in a large percentage of the records is now a seemingly random number rather than the text of the actual … Continue reading →

I was doing some end of year processing related to the listening counts, and decided to total up which IP addresses have been the most active coming here to find the streaming. This goes all the way back to the … Continue reading →

This was originally attached to the Audacy bankruptcy story, but it’s worthy of its own separate discussion Salem Radio is much smaller than Audacy but also in trouble.   Salem is a hybrid for-profit / religious radio company that sold off … Continue reading →

Audacy is the combination of CBS Radio and Entercom.   This is the last of the large radio companies to succumb to their debt.   This is not a surprise as they’ve been telegraphing it for quite a while now – retaining … Continue reading →