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‘Kiss’ went out on a high note - In its final
ratings month before it disappeared, WRKS (98.7 FM) had
its highest finish in years. The late Kiss was No. 5 in
radio’s April Arbitron ratings, which ended just as the
98.7 FM frequency was being signed over to ESPN. ESPN
Radio now simulcasts 1050 AM (WEPN) there.
New York Daily News |
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70's & 80's Pop Radio Staple Donna Summer Dead
- Donna died from lung cancer. Several sources are
telling us Donna believed she contracted it by inhaling
toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City.
TMZ |
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Columbia University Radio Station Is Fined $10,000 -
WKCR, the radio station of Columbia University,
has been fined $10,000 by the Federal Communications
Commission over a lapse in its record-keeping from 1998 to
2005.
New York Times |
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Slain radio host's husband retains attorney -
The husband of April Kauffman, a South Jersey radio
personality and advocate for veterans’ causes who was
found fatally shot in her master bedroom last week in
Atlantic County, has hired a well-known defense attorney,
who said his client had “cooperated fully” with
authorities.
philly.com |
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WFNX is dead - Since 1983, the Boston radio
station marketed as “true alternative” has rocked the
airwaves, but for the last few years it really hasn’t been
the alternative to anything — it’s been the only game in
town. And now it’s gone.
Blast Magazine |
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WLTW Takes April PPM; KISS Closes Shop in Fifth -
As the adage goes, the more things change, the
more they stay the same. That could have been written
about WLTW/Lite FM and its ratings prowess. Once again,
the Clear Channel heavyweight was tops on the overall PPM
Arbitron ratings for April by maintaining a 7.5 rating for
the second straight month.
Fishbowl NY |
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Hometown radio personality Tony Bristol enters Rhode
Island Radio Hall of Fame - There are few
local celebrity names more well known in these parts than
Tony Bristol, a Rhode Island radio legend who was inspired
to pursue a radio career during his days in junior high
school.
Valley Breeze |
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KIIS-FM back at No. 1 - KIIS had had a lock
on the No. 1 position for most of 2011, then was displaced
last winter. But on Monday, when Arbitron released its
survey of listening habits in the Los Angeles-Orange
County market for April, KIIS was in first place,
averaging a 5.1% share of the audience and with 3.6
million people tuning in for at least five minutes each
week.
Los Angeles Times |
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Wendy Williams Wants More Acting Parts and a Radio Return
- “There are aspects of radio that I do miss,
and I would like to go back to radio and I will.” A few
conditions need to be met before she gets in the sound
booth again, though. “When I go back to radio it’s going
to be on my own terms. I don’t want to play music, I want
to talk.”
EURweb |
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'America's Got Talent' ratings lower despite Howard Stern
- Monday’s two-hour Got Talent returned to 10.3
million viewers and a 3.6 rating, down 16 percent from
last year. EW’s Ken Tucker suggested Stern’s performance
was almost too nice.
Entertainment Weekly |
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Internet Radio In Your Car Is Coming Soon -
The radio industry has become more and more corporate with
cookie-cutter programming since the Telecom Act of 1996
threw out old rules that limited the number of stations a
national chain could own. Enter internet radio, a leaner
alternative with better choices for consumers.
Sacramento Press |
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Rush Limbaugh Hall of Famous Missourians honor -
Missouri House Speaker Steven Tilley
(R-Perryville) alerted media statewide less than half an
hour before the ceremony's scheduled start time at 1 p.m.
KSDK 5 |
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WTOP Reporter Does All Field Reports on iPhone or iPad
- Things have changed, at least technologically,
since WTOP, Washington reporter Neal Augenstein joined the
heritage all-news outlet in 1999. Talkers |
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Murdered NJ Radio Host's Husband Talks at Funeral -
Dr. James Kauffman read from a prepared speech,
professing his love for his late wife, April Kauffman,
whose body was found last week in a bedroom of the
couple's Linwood home.
NBC 10 Philadelphia |
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Liberty Media Is Exploiting SIRI Investors' Delusion -
For reasons I can't quite comprehend Sirius XM (SIRI)
investors continue with their misguided optimism over
recent events with Liberty Media (LMCA).
They seem to think Liberty's effort to take full control
of Sirius is going to somehow manifest into a win-win
situation where both Liberty and investors of Sirius walk
away holding hands.
The Street |
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