Bonneville Seattle Media Group has announced an organizational restructure, effective Monday, August 26. Among the moves, KIRO (710 ESPN) PD Mike Salk rises to Director of Programming, overseeing KIRO-FM, 710 ESPN and KTTH-AM. Tina Sorensen is upped from KIRO/KTTH Sales Manager to Director of Digital, managing content and revenue More

Updated: August 24, 2019

Forever Media Buys WQIC-FM & WLBR-AM/Lebanon from LBC

Forever Media

Forever Media has agreed to acquire two stations from Lebanon Broadcasting Company. Included in the deal are 3kW AC WQIC-FM (Soft Rock 100.1) and 1kW News/Talk WLBR-AM serving Lebanon, PA> Both provide distant signals into nearby Harrisburg (ranked 82). LBS has More

Florida Man Radio to Debut on Orlando Duo

JVC Media of Florida is adding Florida Man Radio - 660 AM and 105.5 FM in Orlando. Florida Man Radio will be a spoken-word format and will formally launch in early September 2019 with a live press conference from the JVC Orlando studios. The press conference will be hosted by the on-air staff More

Pennsylvania's News Network Delivers Keystone Sports Updates

Envision Networks

Envision Networks and Radio PA State Network have teamed to bring EnvisionVirtualServices Sports Reports to over 50 stations throughout the "Keystone State." Veteran sports reporter Andrew Scaglione is providing listeners with the latest sports news and information that's relevant to Pennsylvania More

ESPN Audio to Offer New Flagship College Football Podcast

ESPN College Football Podcast

ESPN is launching a new flagship college football podcast, featuring lead analysts Kirk Herbstreit and David Pollack as well as SportsCenter's Kevin Negandhi. Beginning Friday, August 23, the ESPN College Football Podcast, "Herbie & Pollack," will publish More

WKLB-FM/Boston to Present ''Country 102.5 Street Party 2''

Country 102.5 Street Party 2

Beasley Media Group announces that actor and musician Kiefer Sutherland will serve as the official celebrity host of the 11th Country 102.5 Street Party. The event will take place on Sunday, September 22 on Lansdowne Street in Boston. The music attraction, which began in 2013 and now takes place More

WWO Winds Down Summer with Two Labor Day Specials

Sabrina Carpenter

Cumulus Media's Westwood One is winding down the summer season with two Pop and Rock Labor Day Weekend music specials hosted by singer/actress Sabrina Carpenter (pictured) and rocker Brandon Boyd of the multi-platinum rock band Incubus. "Last Big Weekend of Summer," hosted by Carpenter, celebrates More

ESPN Radio Reveals 2019-20 College Football, NFL Coverage

ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio is once again gearing up for the college football and NFL regular season kickoffs with coverage plan across live games, marquee studio shows, on-site activations, fan promotions and more. ESPN Radio's new primary college football commentator team for More

''Yoga Girl'' Rachel Brathen Launches Daily 5-minute Podcast

Yoga Girl Daily

This week marked the launch of Cadence13's "Yoga Girl Daily," a daily five-minute podcast hosted by internationally acclaimed yoga teacher, author and entrepreneur Rachel Brathen. Known as "Yoga Girl," she has two million followers on Instagram @Yoga_Girl. The program is a spinoff of Brathen's More

WIRK/West Palm Beach Welcomes Moriah Daniels to Middays

Moriah Daniels

Hubbard Radio's WIRK (New Country 103.1) West Palm Beach welcomes Moriah Daniels to the midday slot. She joins a lineup that features Tim & Chelsea in the morning and Sammy Cruise in afternoon drive. Daniels has been in the radio for the last 8 years in Palm Beach County. Her career began as an More

Gray and Green Show Comes to 105.3 HOT FM/Grand Rapids

Cumulus Media will debut a new morning show, "The Gray and Green Show" on 105.3 HOT FM/WHTS-FM in Grand Rapids on Monday, August 26th. Featuring high-profile media personalities Rachael Gray and Jackie Green, it will be the first and only morning radio show in West Michigan presented by two female More

iHM to Debut ''FOX Sports Radio The Gambler'' in Philadelphia

FOX Sports Radio The Gambler

iHeartMedia/Philadelphia debuts "FOX Sports Radio The Gambler," creating a destination for Sports/Talk in Philadelphia. The new outlet will broadcast on WDAS-AM (1480), W273DO-FM (102.5) and WDAS-FM-HD2 (105.3) beginning August 26 at 3pm. The Gambler will feature More

Sam Hill Exits KQMT (99.5 The Mountain) Denver as PD

Sam Hill

Classic Rock KQMT (99.5 The Mountain)/Denver Program Director Sam Hill exits the Entercom cluster, where she also served as Assistant PD/Music Director for Hot AC KALC-FM (Alice 105.9). Hill had been with the local group for 14 years and departs after her post was eliminated. She was promoted to More

iHM Names Jerry Houston Program Director of PRIDE Radio

Jerry Houston

iHeartMedia appoints Jerry Houston as Program Director for iHeartRadio's PRIDE Radio, effective October 1. As PD, he'll manage all content and programming for the LGBTQ network's on the iHR app and its 28 HD2 stations across the country. Houston has worked for the company's Washington, DC cluster More

Beasley Broadcast Group Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Beasley Broadcast Group

Beasley Broadcast Group has announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share of its Class A and Class B common stock. The dividend is payable on October 7, 2019, to shareholders of record on September 30. While the More

NAB Show Accepting Paper Proposals for BEIT Conference

NAB Show

Technical paper proposals are now being accepted for the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference at the 2020 NAB Show, held April 18-22 in Las Vegas. BEIT is designed for broadcast engineers and technicians, contract engineers, broadcast More

Milwaukee Bucks to Continue on WTMJ, Adds Postgame Show

WTMJ

Milwaukee Bucks games will continue to air on WTMJ-AM (Newsradio 620) and W277CV (94.5 ESPN)/Milwaukee in 2019-2020, marking the 52nd consecutive season the station has broadcast Bucks games. Ted Davis is returning to call the action for his 23rd season. Dennis More

Nashville Talk Host Arrested Over $170K in Back Child Support

Steve Gill

News/Talk WLAC-AM and W252CM (Talkradio 98.3) Nashville talk host Steve Gill was arrested on Tuesday for non-payment of $170,000 in child support, reports The Tennessean. Gill currently hosts "The Tennessee Star Gill Report" weekday mornings and founded the Tennessee Star website. He was More

BMS Celebrates 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award Winners

Beasley Media Group has announced the winners of the company's annual Outstanding Achievement Awards. The presentations were made during a special dinner that took place at the company's annual Management Meeting on Wednesday, August 21 at the Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. The celebration More

ESPN's Woody Paige Launches ''The Woody Paige Podcast''

The Woody Paige Podcast

Longtime ESPN commentator and sports columnist Woody Paige debuts "The Woody Paige Podcast" on PodcastOne. With new episodes every Thursday, Paige, known for his trademarked "Around the Horn" chalkboard, is bringing his wit and wackiness to the table, as he welcomes sports and entertainment legends More

KOGO/San Diego Inks LaDona Harvey to Contract Extension

LaDona Harvey

KOGO inks LaDona Harvey, co-host of San Diego's Morning News, to a new contract that extends her role on the iHeartMedia News/Talk outlet. For the past five years, veteran news personalities LaDona Harvey and Ted Garcia have helped San Diegans start their day with breaking news and the information More

George Plaster Joins WNSR/Nashville to Host Mid-Afternoons

George Plaster

Nashville market veteran George Plaster joins Sports WNSR-AM and W240CA to host mid-afternoons from 2-4pm, beginning September 3, reports The Tennessean. Most recently, he hosted afternoons at crosstown Country WSM-AM in Nashville. He replaces syndicated FOX Sports Radio's Colin Cowherd. More