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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 […] […]

Roberta Fagan’s RoRo Investments LLC has agreed to acquire Great American Broadcasting’s three FMs in Panama City FL for $180,000. RoRo will acquire Classic Hits “B95.9” WRBA Springfield, Country “Kick’n 103.5” WKNK Callaway, and Variety Hits “105.1 Bob-FM” WASJ Panama City Beac. The deal will be paid via a $100,000 promissory note and the remainder […] […]

G Accelerate Networks continues to expand its footprint in quality network radio offerings with the announcement of a new partnership with Bridge Ratings Media Research, a leading research firm that studies and analyzes listener behavior trends. The arrangement gives G Accelerate exclusive advertising and affiliate sales rights to Bridge Ratings’ StreamStats™, a proprietary research tool that […] […]

Has Ed Stolz found an operator for his FMs in Las Vegas and San Francisco? […]