Thursday, April 2, 2026
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr is facing Bipartisan pressure over the agency’s approval of Nexstar’s $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna. Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) sent Carr a strongly worded letter on March 30th.…
• Before we get to the latest round of downsizing, Audacy announced a streamlining of its market leadership with the elimination of traditional Market Manager roles in favor of a group of 10 Regional Vice Presidents: Dan Barron (Greensboro, Greenville, New Orleans, Memphis,…
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• Cumulus Media has appointed Joyce Wirthlin as VP/Market Manager for the company’s five Salt Lake City brands — AC KBEE (B98.7) ; Mainstream Rock KBER 101 ; Top 40 simulcast KENZ & KHTB (Power 94.9/101.9) ; News-Talk 860 KKAT-AM ; and Country KUBL (93.3 The Bull) .…
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Former iHeartMedia Salt Lake City Market President Joyce Wirthlin is joining Cumulus Media’s Salt Lake City cluster as VP/Market Manager. Wirthlin spent 28 years at iHeart Salt Lake City starting as VP/Sales and rose to SVP/Sales in 2006. She was named Market President in…
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Woody, host of the syndicated The Woody Show on iHeartMedia Los Angeles' ALT 98.7, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Kidd Kraddick Award at Talentmasters' 38th Annual Morning Show Boot Camp. The award will be presented August 5–7 in Cleveland.
Read at Radio InkFCC Chair Brendan Carr is facing Bipartisan pressure over the agency’s approval of Nexstar’s $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna. Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) sent Carr a strongly worded letter on March 30th.…
Read at Barrett Media• Before we get to the latest round of downsizing, Audacy announced a streamlining of its market leadership with the elimination of traditional Market Manager roles in favor of a group of 10 Regional Vice Presidents: Dan Barron (Greensboro, Greenville, New Orleans, Memphis,…
Read at RAMP247• Cumulus Media has appointed Joyce Wirthlin as VP/Market Manager for the company’s five Salt Lake City brands — AC KBEE (B98.7) ; Mainstream Rock KBER 101 ; Top 40 simulcast KENZ & KHTB (Power 94.9/101.9) ; News-Talk 860 KKAT-AM ; and Country KUBL (93.3 The Bull) .…
Read at RAMP247Former iHeartMedia Salt Lake City Market President Joyce Wirthlin is joining Cumulus Media’s Salt Lake City cluster as VP/Market Manager. Wirthlin spent 28 years at iHeart Salt Lake City starting as VP/Sales and rose to SVP/Sales in 2006. She was named Market President in…
Read at RadioInsightWoody, host of the syndicated The Woody Show on iHeartMedia Los Angeles' ALT 98.7, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Kidd Kraddick Award at Talentmasters' 38th Annual Morning Show Boot Camp. The award will be presented August 5–7 in Cleveland.
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Former NYC mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo is joining Red Apple Media's 77WABC with a new Sunday night show. No Excuses features the United Bodegas of America Co-Founder and Spokesman in commentary aimed at the tri-state area's Hispanic population.
Read at Radio InkK104 in the Hudson Valley knows how to make noise. The radio station grabbed attention Tuesday with a clever April Fool’s Day stunt — and the audience responded. K104 launched a satirical blog styled as a breaking national story. It introduced the fictional “Freedom Flag…
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Beasley Media Group is welcoming a new Vice President of Human Resources, and it is an individual who previously served as a Senior Human Resources Executive at Procter & Gamble. Bill Sontag “brings extensive experience and a proven track record in human resources leadership to…
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“We’ve made enormous progress over the past year in positioning Audacy for a strong and sustainable future in a fast-changing business and world.” That’s how company CEO Kelli Turner opened an internal memo distributed Wednesday that explains how, “to better capture…
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After spending Q1 overhauling its programming structure to be "Content-First," Audacy is starting Q2 with a focus on a fresh sales structure, featuring a new regionalized organization that eliminates the Market Manager role from the company's clusters entirely.
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Skyview Networks has completed an ownership transition, with President and CEO Steve Jones assuming full control of the company. The move formalizes a leadership shift years in the making and
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Two of the nation’s largest owners of broadcast radio stations will be a bit tardy with their annual 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as each have filed for extensions — for very different reasons. For Cumulus Media , the completion of its annual…
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It’s complicated. Yet, MediaCo President/CEO Albert Rodriguez insists the parent of Estrella Media and iconic New York radio stations WBLS and WQHT “HOT 97” is in “growth mode” and will continue to be — even with a bit of a debt cloud growing greyer over the company…
Read at RBR-TVBRRight on schedule, History Daily has released its annual April Fools episode. This year, in what we regard as comedic genius, expert historians uncovered leading podcast advertisers in 1572. The episode is freely available on Spotify. Click for link. Continue Reading →
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After guiding Beasley Media Group through a major HR platform transition as a consultant, Bill Sontag is staying on as Vice President of Human Resources. Sontag previously served at Procter & Gamble's human resources department for more than three decades.
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