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Following his departure from his role as APD/midday host at iHeartMedia CHR “Channel 95.5” WKQI Detroit earlier this month, Sean Strife is moving to sister AC “Sunny 106.5” KSNE Las Vegas as morning co-host alongside Joanna Baumann. Strife joined WKQI in June 2020 after a year as APD/MD at iHeart CHR “Z104” 104.1 WZEE Madison […] […]

Beasley Media Group and ALLCITY Network have come to a settlement over the employment of “97.5 The Fanatic” WPEN-FM Burlington NJ/Philadelphia midday host Anthony Gargano. Gargano was one a a few current and former WPEN-FM staffers who joined ALLCITY’s new PHLY platform when it launched on September 12. Beasley would sue a week later alleging […] […]

After five months of stunting with construction sounds for a format change or sale that never took place, Seven Mountains Media’s 92.1 WJHT Johnstown PA has reverted to its previous format this time simulcasting its successor “Pop Radio 104.5” 1490 WNTJ/104.5 W283CX Johnstown and 1290 WFBG/104.5 W283DI Altoona. WJHT dropped its former CHR “Hot 92.1” […] […]

247 Media Ministries’s Contemporary Worship “Worship 24/7” will launch in Portland OR on Monday, October 30 when the organization begins an LMA of Hope Media Group’s 96.3 KKWA West Linn. KKWA has aired Hope’s Christian AC “Way-FM” network since it was acquired in 2019. The Portland based Worship 24/7 also debuted in the Fall of […] […]

The Massachusetts Broadcasters Association (MBA) will hold its 12thannual Sound Bites event on November 16, 2023, at the Sheraton Framingham, in Framingham, MA.  Sound Bites is the association’s annual learning, meeting, and mingling event which combines seminars, networking, industry speakers, dinner, entertainment, and awards along with the annual meeting of the members.  The event will […] […]

Does Top 40 radio have a powers shortage? In 2020, veteran consultant and format observer Guy Zapoleon noted that Mainstream Top 40 had 28 songs that became consensus powers — songs considered strong enough for power rotation by most stations. While 2020 was already considered a year with fewer hits, the result of COVID’s impact […] […]