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Throughout the digital age, radio has been looking for its irresistible object — the app or function that non-radio users will eagerly share with each other. Broadcasters have given their airtime to HDRadio, to NextRadio, to streaming apps, just to watch as Pandora or Spotify or TikTok or Wordle exploded without them.  When Pandora was […] […]

The University of Texas will move its sports play-by-play to iHeartMedia’s Austin cluster. Sports “1300 The Zone” KVET and Country 98.1 KVET-FM will carry University of Texas football and men’s basketball. Stations to carry women’s basketball, baseball, and softball and Spanish language football coverage will be announced later. The announcement notes that Craig Way will […] […]

Inland Northwest Broadcasting CHR “Z-Fun 106” KZFN Moscow ID has announced that Steve Shannon stepped down from mornings at the station on June 30. Shannon began hosting mornings at KZFN in 1985 and remained until 1996 to join 95.7 KJR-FM Seattle. He would return to the station in 2004 and continue hosting mornings until the […] […]

Delta Media Corporation has flipped 105.3 KSLO-FM Simmesport LA to Zydeco music. KSLO-FM had been running the “MeTV-FM” format in simulcast with co-owned 1330 KVOL/97.7 K249EY Lafayette. The new format can be streamed here. […]

Genuine Austin Radio will drop the Sports “104.9 The Horn” format on KTXX-FM Bee Cave/Austin on Tuesday, August 1. The Sports programming will continue to be heard on 1260 KTAE Elgin/101.9 K270CO Round Rock and on the station’s streaming platforms. The message notes that its programming will “consist of local + national sports talk, and […] […]

Nielsen Audio has released Day 2 of its monthly four day sweep of ratings in PPM markets. Today’s releases include Washington DC, Boston, Seattle, Miami, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Denver, San Diego, Baltimore, and St. Louis. All the numbers can be found at RadioInsight.com/Ratings. Washington DC Public News/Talk 88.5 WAMU retains its lead 11.4 […] […]