Category Archives: Radio Biz

Meet the company that may soon run radio in your town

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Fred Stiening

George Beasley is quite a businessman in the best sense. http://streamingradioguide.com/blogradio/?page_id=1390 While working as a school system principal in rural North Carolina, he decided to start a radio station. He cut a deal with a local mobile home dealer to … Continue reading →

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Elvis has left the radio

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Fred Stiening

After looking at about 9000 radio stations, some patterns begin to show up. One of them appears to be the death of Elvis Pressley. Elvis would’ve turned 79 years old this year. The women who used to flock to Graceland … Continue reading →

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The FCC Silent Treatment

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

For those volunteers aspiring to become hard core radio data junkies 😉 or highly paid communications law attorneys, it is useful to know the process for a radio station to not be on the air. A few random things to … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio Biz, The FCC, Volunteer | 1 Comment

IRN/USA radio network throws in its hand

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This is not a huge shock. Independent radio syndication by satellite is dead. http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/133707/cross-platform-media-acquires-irn-usa-radio-networ Jeff Weber, President of competitor Business Talk Radio and Lifestyle radio networks gave up last week. IRN/USA has a very minimal cadre of affiliates for its … Continue reading →

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Why music radio has become so awful

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Nautel LPFM webinar This is sales material for probably the world’s leading manufacturer of high power radio transmitters. It’s pretty amazing technology – if you watch radio stations as much as I have, you realize that most radio stations are … Continue reading →

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Clear Channel pulls the plug on “radio”

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This was obvious from the day IHeartRadio was created, if you were paying attention to Clear Channel’s public statements – and especially if you know a lot about Bob Pittman. Clear Channel is dropping “radio” from its iHeartRadio name, now … Continue reading →

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Putting the pinch on Cumulus

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Fred Stiening

It isn’t clear if this is to save money or to kill the messenger – but Jon Pinch is “retiring” as co-COO of Cumulus, a job he shared with the John Dickey, the brother of CEO Lew Dickey. Jon Pinch … Continue reading →

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Not so subtle changes at Univision

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Univision is a Spanish language network of radio (and TV) stations in the US. They came under intense pressure during he Reagan are for being defacto controlled by Mexicans, which is contrary to law. For my 2009ish history of Univision … Continue reading →

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Monica Crowley gone from WABC

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Monica Crowley is still syndicated by the just barely alive Talk Radio Network. Since TRN sued their own national rep firm and distributor Dial Global (now owned by Cumulus), it’s not shocking that Cumulus is shedding every single TRN program … Continue reading →

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The new digital guy at Clear Channel on the future of Talk Radio

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://www.allaccess.com/power-player/archive/19736/darren-davis Rush, Beck, and Hannity aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. That’s hard to argue with

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