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Cox Trust Seeks One Year Extension To Divest WPYO/WSUN-FM

When Apollo Global Management was granted FCC approval to acquire Cox Media Group in 2019, one of the conditions was that the company must sell CHR “Power 95.3” WPYO Maitland/Orlando and Alternative “97X” 97.1 WSUN Holiday/Tampa FL from the Elliot Evers led CXR Radio LLC divestiture trust to new owners by December 17, 2021. Now […] […]

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Vince Vitrano To Succeed Gene Mueller In Mornings At WTMJ

With Gene Mueller set to retire in February 2022, Good Karma Brands News/Talk 620 WTMJ/103.3 W277CV Milwaukee has announced that Vince Vitrano will succeed him as anchor of “Milwaukee’s Morning News”. Vitrano has served as an anchor at former sister station WTMJ-TV since 2000, currently hosting the station’s morning newscasts. During that time he also […] […]

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Does Social Media Relevancy Equate To Listenership & Revenue?

Facebook this week released its “Widely Viewed Content Report” showing the most viewed domains, links, pages and posts in the United States for the third quarter between July 1 and September 30, 2021. Content from three radio stations appeared in various parts of the report, but each case shows that despite the massive reach that […] […]

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Gen Media Partners Launches G Accelerate Networks In Partnership With Jim Higgins

Warren Friedland, Managing Partner of Gen Media Partners and well-known network radio executive Jim Higgins have announced the launch of G Accelerate Networks, a joint venture in which both parties hold a stake and which Higgins will lead as President and Chief Executive Officer. G Accelerate Networks will be laser-focused on bringing in new business […] […]

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Fox Sports Angola Becomes The Christmas Station

Swick Broadcasting started stunting on the former “Fox Sports Angola” 92.7 W224BY/100.3 WLKI-HD3 Angola IN as “92.7 The Christmas Station” on November 1. Swick continues with the Fox Sports Radio programming on the nearby 1230 WBET Sturgis/99.7 W259CR Athens MI. We reported in our 10/24 Domain Insight report on a potential domain for the station […] […]

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Supersoft AC, the 60s on 73, And Dialing Around SiriusXM

At 3 p.m. on Nov. 3, legendary Top 40 and Rock radio jock Pat St. John began his shift on SiriusXM’s ‘60s Gold, the rebranded ‘60s on 6 in its new home on SXM channel 73. He played his new Drake-style top-of-the-hour jingle. He replayed one of his favorite gushing calls from a listener. Then […] […]