Category Archives: Radio Biz

Andy Dean turns in his notice

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Donald Trump’s business associate and aspiring radio host has told Premiere Radio he’s had enough. His last show will on August 8, and at least temporarily he will be replaced by Joe Pags. The 6-9 PM Eastern time slot on … Continue reading →

Posted in IHeart Media, Premiere (IHeart) | 14 Comments

Station Web Site load times

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

A while back, I started logging how long it takes to load a station’s home page. It’s important to be clear this is just the HMTL text for the home page, not the 57 things a web browser goes and … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, Radio Owners | Leave a comment

Sexy Talk is Hot!

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Saint Louis has a “new” AM radio station fishing around for a format, and someone came up with the idea of Xtreme Talk. http://1380thex.com/ So is this the future to draw young people back into listening to AM radio? http://1380thex.com/sexythoughts … Continue reading →

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Making Money in Radio

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Back in 1990, Liberman Broadcasting paid $23 million for AM radio stations KHJ in Los Angeles. KHJ is only a class B station running 5,000 watts and only solidy covers the city of Los Angeles, and Catalina Island out in … Continue reading →

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NBC: Spanish Language Radio is growing fast

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/midwest-more-radio-stations-switching-spanish-n159346 Missing from the story is any mention of NBC’s partnership with Telemundo http://www.nbcuni.com/broadcast/telemundo/

Posted in Collapse of America, Radio Biz | Leave a comment

Does anyone on radio want to be on radio?

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

John Batchelor is on the list of people with a video camera creating a videos for the Internet http://johnbatchelorshow.com/blog/2014/07/video-whats-putin-waiting Dressing for the camera, watching the camera, gesticulating for the camera, referring to things that are shown on the camera… Where … Continue reading →

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Today’s big Radio rumor

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This rumor is getting enough momentum that people are talking about it in open discussions. You probably are aware by now that Australian born Rupert Murdoch (Fox News, WSJ, etc) is making a bid to take over Time Warner. Time … Continue reading →

Posted in CBS, Cumulus Media, Radio Biz | 4 Comments

Emergency Response

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Since the very beginning, Radio has justified its use of the airwaves in part because it serves a need to provide the public in its community with reliable information during an emergency, which newspapers can’t do. The same idea is … Continue reading →

Posted in Syndicators | 3 Comments

The ominous “Motor Kote” show

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Cumulus radio just telegraphed the future. While listening to the 4 AM hour of Red Eye Radio, a peculiar thing appeared. While it was clearly the red eye hosts, this show was ID’d as the Motor Kote Show. Clearly, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Westwood One | 2 Comments

Non-Microsoft streaming

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The world of streaming has changed enormously in the 10 years that this website has existed. In 2004, there were only a couple hundred radio stations streaming – now at least two thirds of all radio station stream, along with … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, Linux, Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz | 4 Comments