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In a letter to shareholders s part of its first quarter earnings report today, Cumulus Media CEO Mary Berner announced the rejection of the acquisition offer made by Jeff Warshaw last month. Berner stated that the Cumulus Board of Directors unanimously concluded that the indication of interest significantly undervalues the company. Cumulus will begin a […] […]

Omni Broadcasting has flipped Sports “100.3 The Ticket” WTKE-FM Niceville/Fort Walton Beach FL to Classic Rock “100.3 K-Rock“. The station is now running programming from Local Radio Networks and United Stations’ Nights with Alice Cooper. The new format targets Cumulus Media’s Active Rock “Rock 99” WKSM, which gained a current based competitor last August in […] […]

Woodward Radio Group has announced the addition of Edgar Ybarra and Reed Petitpren to CHR “95.9 Kiss-FM” WKSZ De Pere/Green Bay and 92.9 WKZY Chilton/Appleton WI. Ybarra will serve as Music Director and midday host filling the position previously held by Heather Storm. He most recently worked in support for VCreative and tracks mornings at […] […]

Longtime iHeartMedia R&B Oldies 1070 WDIA Memphis personality Bobby O’Jay passed away this morning. WREG-TV reports that when O’Jay would normally open the phone lines at 9:00am the station continued playing music. Midday host Bev Johnson confirmed to the television station that he passed away while at work, but no cause of death has been […] […]

It might surprise some Ross on Radio readers to hear Heardle and the Lost Factor mentioned in the same sentence. Heardle is the two-month-old British “name-that-tune” variant on the game Wordle that has been phenomenal in its own way. The Lost Factor divides old chart points by current radio spins to calculate those once-big hits […] […]

Cumulus Media has appointed Vincent ‘Mojo’ Wilson as Operations Manager for their five station cluster in Mobile AL and Program Director of CHR 97.5 WABD and Conservative Talk 660 WXQW. Wilson joins Cumulus from Southern Broadcasting in Florence/Muscle Shoals AL where he served as Director of Operations since 2015 outside of a five month stint […] […]