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VCY America Launches On 103.3 Dallas

VCY America has closed on its $9.2 million purchase‘ of “103.3 ESPN Dallas” KESN Allen TX from ESPN Inc. With the closing of the deal on Wednesday, VCY America launched its Christian Preaching network programming around 10:30pm. The station becomes VCY’s second station in Texas joining 92.7 KVCE Staton/Lubbock, with the pending acquisition of 104.7 […] […]

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JVC Broadcasting Announces New Hires In Long Island, Orlando & Fort Walton Beach

JVC Broadcasting one of America’s largest independent and locally owned broadcast and entertainment companies, just completed a hiring boom and continues to staff the company with radio pros and industry veterans. In January of 2022 JVC began a massive recruitment campaign using its local radio stations and social media platforms and the response was overwhelming. […] […]

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April Zesbaugh To Retire From KOA's Colorado's Morning News

iHeartMedia News/Talk 850 KOA Denver/94.1 K231AA Boulder/K231BQ Golden morning co-anchor April Zesbaugh has announced she will retire in the coming months. Zesbaugh has served as co-anchor of “Colorado’s Morning News” since 1996, most recently with Marty Lenz since 2017. Prior to joining KOA, Zesbaugh served as News Director of 710 KNUS through a collaboration with […] […]

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Movin 92.5 Adds Ashely Z For Nights

Hubbard CHR “Movin 92.5” KQMV Seattle has added Ashley Z to their on-air lineup as evening host through VirtualJock.com. Ashley most recently hosted nights at iHeartMedia CHR “96.5 Kiss-FM” WAKS Cleveland until exiting in January 2020. She has also hosted nights at “Q100” WWWQ Atlanta, “107.9 The End” KDND Sacramento, and 105.9 WKHQ Traverse City […] […]

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EMF Begins Operating KJZY Under Network Affiliation Agreement

Educational Media Foundation has begun operating Redwood Empire Stereocasters CHR “106.3 The Beat” KJZY Cazadero/Santa Rosa CA with the station now running the Contemporary Worship “Air 1” network. Owner Gordon Zlot told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, “We’re basically leasing the frequency to the Educational Media Foundation, based in Rocklin, near Sacramento,” and in regards to […] […]

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Domain Insight 3/9: Early Possibilities On What May Be Next For 106.1 Philadelphia

As iHeartMedia’s 106.1 WISX Philadelphia enters its second day simulcasting CHR “Q102” WIOQ, we have some early possibilities on what may be next for the station.

Over the past two days, the rumor mill has churned hot and heavy with different scenarios being heard depending on who you talk to. Creating confusion within the market appears to be the goal right now.

In trying to make light of what I’ve heard it appears that the simulcast of WIOQ is iHeart seeing if they can get one of their competitors to blink first in a way that would help one of the company’s other Philadelphia stations. Audacy making a quick flip of CHR “96.5 TDY” WTDY-FM would help WIOQ, as would Radio One doing something with low rated Hip Hop “100.3 R&B and Hip Hop” WRNB-FM to boost “Power 99” WUSL eliminating their direct format competitors and changing the market dynamics.

To that end, three formats have come to the forefront in most of these conversations and there are domains to match. […]