- Service Eyes Digital FM Diversity
San Antonio, Texas — A major radio broadcaster hopes to stimulate format diversity among digital FM stations to better compete with satellite radio's diversity. Clear Channel Radio has begun making 75 channels of programming available for use by FM stations that want to supplement their main-channel programming with one to ......
- Three prominent broadcasters celebrate golden anniversaries!
This is a special year for three NAFB members who are celebrating 50 years with the organization. They are: Roddy Peeples, Voice of Southwest Agriculture, Dallas, TX; Orion Samuelson, WGN, Chicago, IL; and Evan Slack, Evan Slack Network, Denver, CO. These veteran broadcasters personify the spirit of the industry and ......
- Salem adds stations. (Valley
Briefs).
Salem Communications Corp., a religious programming radio broadcaster based in Camarillo, has acquired two additional radio stations. Salem will buy Boston radio station WAMG-AM from Mega Communications for approximately $8.6 million, the company said. The company has also acquired KKCS-AM in Colorado Springs for $1.5 million from Walton Stations. Upon ......
- Senate Bill Targets Sat-Radio Recording
Washington — Proposed legislation before the Senate Judiciary Committee would force satellite radio broadcasters XM and Sirius to limit consumers' ability to record satellite radio programming, and it would raise the royalties that the companies pay to copyright holders. The bill, dubbed the Perform Act, would force satellite broadcasters to ......
- CBS Sheds Radio Outlets
CBS Corp. is close to halfway done with a plan to possibly sell 39 radio stations in nonstrategic markets, agreeing to unload 17 stations in two separate deals valued at more than $300 million. CBS said in May it would explore the sale of radio properties in 10 markets — ......
- Tuning in the future: Digital technology and commercial radio broadcasting in Canada
HEADNOTE Commercial radio, a pervasive part of the Canadian cultural landscape for nearly a century, is poised to undergo a fundamental transformation. Driven by a technology known as Digital Audio Broadcasting, radio broadcasters, with the support of the state, are proposing to replace conventional AM and FM radio, altering the ......
- About this issue.
Mega-broadcasters are gobbling up radio stations nationwide, leaving the unique voice of independent, black-owned radio in serious peril And Michael Powell, the lone black commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, is making matters worse. Powell and the FCC are conducting a biennial review of whether to repeal or modify telecom ......