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Audacy Agrees To Partnership With TuneIn For Streaming & Monetization

Audacy has announced a pivot in its streaming strategy as it has agreed to place its station portfolio and podcast library on the TuneIn platform in addition to its own. The deal includes a monetization partnership between the two platforms “leveraging the companies’ collective scale, precision targeting and analytics capabilities.” TuneIn made a similar agreement […] […]

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Mason Stanfield Joins KATC As PD/Morning Host

Following the departure of Bo Jaxon to join Audacy Country 92.5 WBEE Rochester NY, Cumulus Media’s “Cat Country 95.1” KATC Colorado Springs has appointed Mason Stanfield as PD/morning host. Stanfield joins KATC from mornings at Cumulus Country 101.1 KRMD-FM Shreveport LA where he has spent the past three and a half years in mornings. Prior […] […]

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Following Carton Departure; WFAN Sets Lineup Revamp Details

With the upcoming departure of Craig Carton from afternoons to focus on his FS1 morning television show, Audacy Sports 660 WFAN/101.9 WFAN-FM New York will make changes to its midday, afternoon, and overnight shows. Former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber will move from the 10am-2pm show he has co-hosted with Brandon Tierney since […] […]

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A Look Back at RadioDays North America

It’s not easy to launch a new broadcast conference, especially these days. Travel budgets are tight, fewer local stations have the autonomy to send people without corporate approval – and when there’s an international border involved, it gets even harder. So it wasn’t a big surprise to arrive at the new RadioDays North America convention […] […]

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James Kurdziel Moves To Q101 Chicago As Program Director; Wade Linder Moves To KQRS-FM

Cumulus Media is playing Program Director shuffle in Chicago and Minneapolis. James Kurdziel will relocated from Minneapolis to Chicago as Program Director of Alternative “Q101” WKQX. Kurdziel has been programming Classic Rock 92.5 KQRS Minneapolis since May 2020 and rose to VP/Classic Rock for the company last September. He will also now take on the […] […]

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Audacy Transfers KLUV Call Letters To Educational Media Foundation

The next piece of the transfer of the KLUV intellectual property to Educational Media Foundation has been filed with the FCC as the groups have engaged in a call letter transfer. Audacy’s newly rebranded “98.7 The Spot” will become KSPF as of June 26, while EMF will park the KLUV call letters on their unbuilt […] […]