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Audacy Classic Hip Hop “102.1 Jams” KRBQ San Francisco is rounding out its on-air lineup with the addition of Compass Media Networks’ Baka Boyz Daily for mornings. Hosted by Eric and Nick Vidal, the Baka Boyz previously hosted mornings in San Francisco on Hip Hop 106.1 KMEL in the early 2000s along with stints in […] […]

Costa-Eagle Radio Ventures has launched Classic Hits “The Moose 103.3” 1350 WHNM/103.3 W277DJ Laconia NH. Costa Eagle is in the process of acquiring the station, previously News/Talk under WEZS call letters from Gary Hammond for $225,000. Utilizing programming from Westwood One, the format matches the programming utilized by Costa Eagle on “Valley 98.9” W255DA Salem […] […]

Alpha Media Country “KX 96.9” KZKX Seward/Lincoln NE has cut ties with midday host Megan Rieder. Rieder joined KZKX in November 2020 after previously hosting in the same daypart for SummitMedia Rock “Z92” KEZO-FM Omaha from 2015 to 2020. She also worked in promotions and tracked nights at CHR “Star 102.1” WWST Knoxville TN during […] […]

Educational Media Foundation’s “Air1” has added a second signal in the Memphis area as it is now being heard on Flinn Broadcasting’s 96.1 WIVG Tunica MS. WIVG, which rimshots Memphis from the south, joins 96.7 W244BY Memphis/94.9 WKVF-HD2 in carrying the Air1 programming. It becomes the second Flinn owned station in Mississippi this month to […] […]

The FCC released its Sixth Report on Ownership of Broadcast Stations presenting data on ownership interests in commercial and noncommercial broadcast stations as of October 1, 2021 by gender, race, and ethnicity utilizing data collected from FCC Forms 323 and 323-E.

The full report can be read here.

The FCC has released its annual list of total station amounts as of December 31, 2022.

4484 AM Stations (down 25 from 4059 on 12/31/2021)
6686 Commercial FM Stations (up 10 from 6676)
4207 Educational FM Stations (up 3 from 4204)
8950 FM Translators & Boosters (up 84 from 8866)
2015 Low Power FMs (down 54 from 2069)
33,517 Total Broadcast Stations (up 50 from 33,467)

Deletions
After shutting down Christian Preaching 1440 WKPR Kalamazoo MI in August 2022, Kalamazoo Broadcasting Company has surrendered the station’s license. WKPR’s former translator 105.1 W286AU Kalamazoo began rebroadcasting Classic Country “Jethro-FM” 980 WAKV Otsego in July.
Silent Notifications

Townsquare Media ceased programming on 940 WINE Brookfield CT, 1360 WYOS Binghamton NY, and 1490 WTVL Waterville ME at the end of 2022 due to economic conditions
KCBX Inc.’s 89.5 KSBX Santa Barbara CA (increasing ducting interference)
Radio World Inc.’s 1400 WZHR Zephyrhills FL (transmitter problems)
KM Radio of Independence’s 1220 KQMG and 95.3 KQMG-FM Independence IA (equipment problems)
KUTE Inc.’s 90.1 KDNM Reserve NM (suspended operation)
Birach Broadcasting’s 1340 KJMU Sand Springs/Tulsa OK (transmitter failure)
Stephens Media Group’s 880 KCMX Phoenix/Medford OR (catastrophic transmitter failure)
Campbell Craft Company’s 94.7 KTXO Goldsmith TX (closing of sale/planned equipment repairs)

AM Changes
After closing on its purchase of 1430 WPLN Nashville, […]

Beginning with its title, the new Paramount+ documentary, Sometimes When We Touch: The Reign, Ruin, and Resurrection of Soft Rock is built around a timeline where an entire genre became reviled, then revived. The “Ruin” episode tags soft rock’s decline to the arrival of MTV as well as a torrent of pop-culture derision (although much […] […]