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Nielsen continues its releases of the April 2024 diary surveys today. Today’s markets include monthly ratings for Dayton, Fort Myers, Grand Rapids, Metro Fairfield County, Tucson, and Tulsa. Coming on Tuesday, May 28: Monthly ratings for Albuquerque, Allentown/Bethlehem, El Paso, Dayton, Fresno, Honolulu, Knoxville, and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. […]

Advanced Media Partners shifted AAA 99.9 WWCT Bartonville/Peoria IL to Alternative “CT 99.9” this morning. Now positioning as “Peoria’s Alternative”, the flip marks the third time an Alternative Rock format was featured on the frequency. Cumulus Media Rock “105.7 The X” WIXO originally launched on 99.9 as an Alternative station before moving to 105.7 and […] […]

Christie Tate’s E Radio Network is purchasing five stations and four translators in and near Texarkana from the Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation trust led by Roddrick B Newhouse. Newhouse was appointed trustee overseeing the divestment of Robert Delgiorno’s Freed AM Corp. and MLS Broadcasting following Delgiorno ceasing operations last November and subsequent bankruptcy filing. E […] […]

Audacy flipped Classic Hip Hop “Hot 95.9” K240EL/KKMJ-HD3 Austin to Red Dirt/Classic Country “95.9 Texas Country” at 12pm today. The flip comes ahead of the closing of the sale of Genuine Austin Radio’s similarly formatted 99.3 KOKE-FM/98.5 K253AN to Spanish language operator Norsan Media. The new brand will feature a mix of Classic Country and […] […]

The Stax Records story has been a well-chronicled one over the past 30 years: founder Jim Stewart’s disastrous deal that gave the label’s catalog to Atlantic, the integrated staff and musicians that found it harder to remain brothers-in-music after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Al Bell’s saturation of the market that returned the […] […]

A format change is expected today at Alpha Media Hot AC “Star 102.3” WXLC Waukegan IL. As we first hinted about in the story about the layoffs at the company’s Joliet IL cluster last week, WXLC will be flipping to Country today simulcasting 98.3 WCCQ Crest Hill/Joliet. It is expected that the stations will be […] […]