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Beasley Media Group is expanding its Spanish Salsa based “Playa” format to six additional markets. The company describes the brand as “Salsa and More” with a “variety of artists, including Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, Juan Luis Guerra and more” providing “the ultimate beach experience of traditional rhythms and heritage of the music that was born […] […]

KYW Newsradio, Philadelphia’s agenda-setting multiplatform newsroom, has inducted two members into its Hall of Fame: longtime reporter and anchor Lynne Adkins and anchor Brandon Brooks. The inductees, nominated and elected by the current KYW Newsradio staff, join other distinct Hall of Famers, including NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell and longtime Suburban Bureau Chief Jay Lloyd. “This […] […]

Audio 1 has announced it will launch “Mason Dixon’s Generation 80s” into national syndication. Hosted by the longtime Tampa Bay are personality, the show currently airs on Beasley Media Group Classic Hits “Q105” WRBQ. Dixon worked at the then Top 40 from 1978 until 1990 where he developed the Morning Zoo format with then PD/co-host […] […]

The Spanish language battle in Northeast Pennsylvania is getting personal. GEOS Communications has rebranded Spanish CHR “Hola Radio” heard on 730 WAZL Nanticoke, 94.9 W235DC Dickson City/Scranton, 95.3 W237DP Mountaintop/Wilkes-Barre, and 99.5 W258DJ Hazleton as “Ritmo FM“. The station launched in Hazleton in June and was added in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre last month following the […] […]

There are two headlines from the last 10 days that are worth considering together. KITS (Live 105) San Francisco, which garnered immediate headlines by returning to the Alternative format in June was up 3.4-4.0 6-plus in the October PPM. Live 105, one of Alternative radio’s first success stories in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, was sixth […] […]

iHeartMedia Hot AC “102.7 Kiss-FM” WEGR Memphis has added The Alabama Show for mornings from 6-10am. Based at CHR “103.7 The Q” WQEN Birmingham and hosted by Amber ‘Alabama’ Cole, WEGR becomes the first affiliate of the show not in the state of Alabama. Cole joined WQEN in April 2021 and was added at iHeart […] […]