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Max Media will be launching “100.5 The Vibe” on what was CHR “Hot 100” WVHT Norfolk. After we first indicated the flip was coming this morning in our Domain Insight report, WVHT began stunting at 6pm with a loop of Q-Tip’s “Vivrant Thing”. Sweepers between the loop brand the station with its new “100.5 The […] […]

Beasley Media Group will relaunch two of its Las Vegas stations on Friday, June 24 at 10am. Hot AC “Star 107.9” KVGS Meadview AZ will become “102.7 VGS“. Shawn Tempesta, former APD/afternoon host at Audacy Hot AC “Mix 94.1” KMXB will join the station to host mornings with Aimee Thomas, who moves from the same […] […]

The impending closing of the acquisition of Cherry Creek Media by Townsquare Media will see multiple Missoula brands relocate to new frequencies. Alternative “101.5 Alternative Missoula” KAMM Frenchtown will move to 95.7 K239AP Missoula fed by an unknown HD subchannel. KAMM is being donated to Missoula Community Radio, who will move its programming from 105.5 […] […]

Desert Valley Media Group relaunched Hot AC “Hot 97.5/103.9” KMVA Dewey-Humboldt/KZON Gilbert AZ as a Rhythmic Hot AC at noon today. Now positioning as “The Rhythm of the Valley”, the new format places the station between iHeartMedia Hot AC “Mix 96.9” KMXP and Sierra H Broadcasting Classic Hip Hop “101 The Bounce” KZCE. The station […] […]

Editor’s Note: After Bill Taylor’s passing last year, his son wrote the obituaries, which made sense. I had always heard Tom Taylor talk about his father and his radio career from a time before I really started following the radio business; last February, I fully came to understand the magnitude of that life and career, […] […]

In a move first indicated in our 5/11 Domain Insight, Stephens Media Group has launched Classic Hits “Big 95.7” KKSR Walla Walla/Kennewick WA. KKSR had been Christian AC “95.7 The Bridge” whose format has relocated to 960 KALE/106.1 K291BS Richland replacing AC “106.1 More-FM“. The new “Big 95.7” is positioning as “Hits of the 80s, […] […]