Journal Reports 2Q Radio Revenue Up 2.3 Percent

Journal Communications, Inc. today announced results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2013.Steve J. SmithHighlights:Revenue of $101.2 million, up 6.0%Broadcast revenue up 15.3% , up 6.1% on a same-station basis and excluding political revenuePolitical revenue of $0.3 million compared to $5.7 millionDaily newspaper retail advertising revenue up 2.8%Publishing revenue down 6.5%, down 0.5% excluding northern Wisconsin community publications sold...

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Cumulus Reports 2Q Net Revenue Increased 3.1 Percent

Cumulus Media Tuesday reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013.Lew Dickey, Chairman & CEO stated: "This was a solid quarter earmarked by revenue growth and strong expense management. Our targeted growth initiatives are ramping on schedule and our merger integration and problem market turnarounds are largely complete."Financial highlights are as follows (in thousands, except percentages)Three Months Ended June...

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Dickey: NashFM Is Third Most Listened To Country Station

During Tuesday’s earnings conference call Lew Dickey sang the praises of WNSH NashFM 94-7 in NYC: This is one of the most exciting major market launches in recent memory. In just 5 months, we're already over 1 million weekly listeners. And in fact, it's already the third most country -- third most-listened country radio station in Americaand moving up fast. In addition to establishing itself as a successful New York station, NASH FM will...

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Does Cumulus Make Money On Rush?

During the Cumulus 2Q Earnings conference call with fiancial analysts Tuesday, Michael Kupinski with Noble Financial Group, Inc. asked one of the most anticipated questions of the call.  Kupinski asked Lew Dickey, “Do you -- as a firm, do you make money on Rush Limbaugh?”Dickey refused to talk about Rush. Well, on that, Mike, I've got to refer you back to the last thing that I said, which is we -- in the prepared remarks, which is we really...

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Limbaugh's Future Cloudy After Cumulus Earnings

Rush LimbaughRush Limbaugh’s specter hovered over Cumulus Media’s second-quarter earnings call Tuesday, but Forbes reports the conservative talk radio host was He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named to Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey.Unlike three months ago, when he blamed an anti-Limbaugh boycott for a $2.4 million revenue decline, Dickey was both vague and politic, bringing up the subject of a soon-to-expire deal with Premiere Radio (which syndicates both Limbaugh and...

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Rush Limbaugh Talks To Greta On FNC

Rush Limbaugh joined Greta Van Susteren for the full hour Tuesday night on the Fox News Channel, and the first segment of the program bashing President Obama, sharing the "Limbaugh Theorem" for how the president governs, and taking the "slavish media" to task for not holding him accountable. He also had some choice words for Republicans capitulating too much to the Democratic agenda....

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NYC Radio: ESPN Returns To Eastern Long Island

ESPN’s Michael Kay afternoon radio host Michael Kaye and his colleagues are East End bound, effective next week in a deal the station plans to announce Wednesday for a noon-to-midnight simulcast on Hampton Bays-based WLIR 107.1 FM.WLIR-FM 107.1 FM 60dBu Coverage AreaThat is good news for a part of Long Island that always has had a complex relationship with radio signals, what with all those miles separating it from New York Cityand all that water...

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Cincy Radio: WCFN FM 100.3 Flips To ‘Old School’

FM 100.3 The Fan is no more.  At noon Tuesday the Radio One-owned station flipped from CBS Radio Sports to Old School Urban oldies.The shot with sports lasted just seven month.Tom Gamble, Richard Skinner, Will Chambers,  Chad Brendel, Rick Ucchino, Rick Broering, Jeremy Lance and former Reds pitcher Joe Price — plus Steve Harris — were told Tuesday morning after the Gamble-Chamber morning show ended at 10 a.m. Tuesday.Ironically, John Kiesewetter...

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TV Ratings: Diane Sawyer Tops Brian Williams

Happy news at Disney-owned ABC: "ABC World News With Diane Sawyer" scored a close victory over "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" last week.According to media writer Hal Boedeker at orlandosentinel.com, Sawyer and the ABC team posted a razor-thin win over Williams and NBC in the 25-to-54 age group, which is most important to news advertisers.ABC won by just 38,000 viewers. ABC averaged 1.917 million viewers in the age group to NBC's 1.879...

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Jay Mohr Talks Fox Sports Radio and Comedy

Jay MohrHe's had a long successful career as a stand-up comic, actor and producer. So, NBC4 wondered why did Jay Mohr make the move to sports talk radio?Now that he's the boss on his new nationally syndicated radio show, people have to do what he says. With a team of producers, there's always something happening. But it's the intern who gets some of the best jobs and Jay has a few unique tasks for his assistants.Like any good comic, Jay has a few...

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Boston Radio: Promotional Video Released For Herald Radio

The new interent radio station makes its debut Monday, August 6.  See original postings: Click H...

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SiriusXM Makes It Official: Art Bell Is Back

Art BellSiriusXM Radio officially announced Tuesday it will be the exclusive home to legendary radio personality Art Bell, marking the return of the trailblazing late night host to radio with a new, expanded live, nightly call-in show on which he will explore the paranormal, unexplained and more with expert guests and listeners nationwide.Art Bell's Dark Matter will debut in fall 2013 on Indie, SiriusXM channel 104, airing nightly from 10:00 pm --...

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FCC Nominee Wheeler Wins Senate Panel Approval

Tom WheelerThe Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of Tom Wheeler as the next chairman of the FCC, although questions remain as to how quickly his selection will gain a floor vote.According to Variety, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), chairman of the Commerce Committee, urged members to approve the nomination, but said it would be left up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)...

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Kidd Kraddick: Deathbed Confessions Bit

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Fans Start Petition To Keep Kraddick Show On-Air

Old School KraddickIn the wake of the untimely death of nationally syndicated radio host David "Kidd" Kraddick, his fervent fans are asking that his morning show stay on air, and according to dallas.culturemap.com, they have launched a petition that's being deluged with signatures.Kraddick died unexpectedly in New Orleans on July 27 of apparent cardiac disease. His morning show, Kidd Kraddick in the Morning — broadcast in Dallas on KHKS 106.1KISS-FM...

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'Piolin' Sotelo Hit With Harassment Allegations

Eddie SoteloSpanish-language radio personality Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo's mysterious departure from the airwaves last week came after a performer on his nationally syndicated program accused him of sexual harassment, according to documents obtained by The LA Times.Alberto "Beto" Cortez, a writer, producer and performer on the popular "Piolin por la Manana" radio program, alleged that his boss Sotelo was "physically, sexually and emotionally harassing"...

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NYC Radio: WBLS Revenue Spikes 76 Percent

The battle over radio audience measurement that raged five years ago when Portable People Meters replaced paper diaries—a move that minority stations said hurt their ratings—never really went away, according to crainsnewyork.com.Radio stations that catered to blacks and Latinos said the people meters undercounted their audiences, making it harder to sell advertising. Last year, Emmis Communications threw in the towel on urban station Kiss-FM...

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Rush Limbaugh Says It’s Business Not Politics

Rush LimbaughOn Monday, Rush Limbaugh took about 90-minutes of show time to talk shop about his reports he was being dropped on 40+ Cumulus stations nationwide. The liberal blososphere, led by lefties-Media Matters and Al Sharpton, cited the reports as proof that a call for ‘advertiser boycotts’ had taken its toll.   Various groups have been harassing national and local Limbaugh advertisers since Rush called reproductive rights advocate...

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Hannity: Listeners Don’t Care About Politics of Radio

After Rush, it was Sean Hannity’s turn to downplay the story claiming his show was to be dropped by 40+ Cumulus Media stations.Hannity brushed aside the news, reassured the audience that all is well, and sent them a rather cryptic message about new things to come.Hannity remarked, “I wish I could talk about some of the industry nonsense that goes on,” but then acknowledged that the audience doesn’t really care about the politics of the radio business. “There...

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Springfield MO Radio: Natalie Randalls Gets Power Gig

Natalie Randall is joining Journal Broadcast Group-Springfield Operations as the new Program Director for KSPW Power 96.5 FM. Randall joins the station from WMGI-FM in Terre Haute, Ind., where she was brand manager and on-air middays and afternoons from 2008 to 2012 and 2012 to present, respectively. Prior to that she was music director for WFBC-FM in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC., where she was voted Favorite Radio Personality twice. Previous...

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Boise Radio: Ron Harris New OM For Journal Stations

Journal Broadcast Group has added Ron Harris to its Boise Operations as the new Operation Manager for its radio division. In his role, Harris will oversee operations of 107.1 K-Hits (KTHI-FM), 94.9 The River (KRVB-FM), 100.3 The X (KQXR-FM) and Variety Rock 105.1 (KJOT-FM). Harris has more than 25 years of broadcasting experience and most recently was the Operation Manager in Tri-Cities, Wash. Prior to that he was Director of Operations for Clear...

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Report: Art Bell Bringing “Dark Matters" to SiriusXM

Art BellAccording to a story by Associated Press, Art Bell is returning Sept. 16 with a new nighttime show on Sirius XM Radio.The show is to be called “Art Bell’s Dark Matter” and according to Scott Greenstein, Sirius XM president and chief content officer, said the show will be "uncensored, unrestricted, uncluttered and utterly unique."Bellwas on 500 radio stations during 1990s before walking away from his nightly show in 2002 due to family issues....

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CBS, TWC Back From the Brink

Time Warner Cable and CBS said early Tuesday morning that they will shrug off their self-imposed midnight Tuesday deadline and continue to negotiate on a new retransmission contract, according to USAToday.In a strange sequence of brinkmanship, their decision to pull back at the last minute from a possible blackout in key U.S. markets was announced merely 30 minutes after they separately told reporters at around midnight that they had walked away...

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Katy Perry Announces New Album With Gold 18-Wheeler

Katy Perry is making a statement -- with a semi-truck.According to THR, an enormous golden truck with "Katy Perry - Prism - 10-22-13" emblazoned on its sides, top and back was spotted in Los Angeles on Monday.Perry herself encouraged fans to keep an eye out for the shiny viral campaign and confirmed the truck announces the title of her new album and its release date.Read More ...

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Fugees’ Video Director Sentenced To 50 Years

'Charles McGill'Aswad Ayinde, hides his face with a piece of paper during his sentencing at Passaic County Courthouse in Paterson, on Friday. According to the NYPost, he received a 50 years prison term after being found guilty of raping his daughter.The man behind one of the most iconic R&B music videos of all time will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he was found guilty of trying to create "pure" blood lines by siring six children...

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TV Reporter Posts Online Confessional, Gets ‘Terminated’

Shea AllenWAAY-TV reporter Shea Allen posted a controversial “confessions” blog last week, caught some heat for it, and ultimately decided to leave it up in honor of the right to free expression.According to Mediaite, the investigative reporter for Huntsville, Alabama’s ABC affiliate wrote a blog post last week, originally entitled “Confessions of a Red Headed Reporter,” containing 10 confessional bullet-points on her looks, her TV career, and her...

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R.I.P.: Herb Kaplow, NBC Veteran, Dies At 86

Herb Kaplow, who covered the Nuremberg trials, the Cuban Revolution and the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 86. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyRead NYTimes Obit: Click He...

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Kidd Kraddick: A Master of His Craft

Rob Chickering, Kidd Kraddick’s vice president of operations/engineering for many years, gave Radio World a few minutes of time to say a few words about Kidd Kraddick.What was he like with the show?“He was the definition of a perfectionist and I have never met someone better who could sense energy level and timing to his audience. He was constantly at school … He studied everything, pop culture, music, latest technologyWhat was it like to work with...

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Coroner: Kidd Kraddick Had 'Cardiac Disease'

Kidd Kraddick, unidentified maleKidd Kraddick had an enlarged heart and “cardiac disease” according to preliminary autopsy results released Monday by the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office. Investigator Tommy Evans said the cause of death is still under investigation, according to nola.com.Pathologists are awaiting the results of toxicology tests. Evans said the autopsy, performed Monday morning, did not turn up any other abnormalities. “Heart...

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D/FW Radio: Kidd-Less Morning Show Remembers

KHKS 106.1 KissFM personality Kellie Rasberry said it at 7 a.m. Monday so no one else had to: “For the first time ever, we are ‘Kidd Kraddick in the Morning’ without Kidd Kraddick,” she said, sniffling, according to pegassusnews.com.The radio show’s leader, David “Kidd” Kraddick, died unexpectedly Saturday in New Orleans during a golf tournament for his children’s nonprofit called Kidd’s Kids. The show on Dallas’ Kiss FM (106.1 KHKS-FM) usually runs from 6-10 a.m., but Kraddick’s cast members Rasberry, Big Al Mack, J-Si, Jenna Owens, and "Psycho"...

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Kidd Kraddick Radio Highlights

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The Final Photos

Radio personality Kidd Kraddick poses with his staff and others at a charity golf tournament in New Orleans on July 27, 2013, shortly before his death. The photo was provided by WEZB B97 New Orleans which carries Kraddick's syndicated morning show.Radio personality Kidd Kraddick poses with his staff and othe...

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R.I.P.: Listeners Remember Kidd Kraddick

An outpouring of grief and memories on Sunday followed the sudden death of David “Kidd” Kraddick, a nationally syndicated radio personality and “an energetic dynamo with a huge and caring heart,” according to The Dallas Morning News.Kraddick, 53, hosted the Dallas-based Kidd Kraddick in the Morning on KissFM KHKS-FM 106.1 and more than 75 stations nationally. It is also broadcast on the television show Dish Nation.Kraddick died Saturday in New Orleans...

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Co-Workers Pay Tribute To Kidd Kraddick

Kidd Kraddick hosted his morning show on KHKS 106.1 KissFM with Kellie Rasberry and Big Al Mack, Jose “J-Si” Chavez and Jenna Owens. They are expected to be Monday to share their feelings on Kraddick’s death.LISTEN-LINE: Click HereRasberry wrote Sunday on her Facebook page: My heart is broken. Nineteen years ago, Kidd Kraddick swept me up from the middle of nowhere and took me on as his on-air wife. It will always be the biggest honor of my...

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Report: Cumulus To Drop Limbaugh, Hannity

Rush LimbaughCumulus Media, the second largest operator of radio stations in the United States, will be dropping popular conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity at the end of the year, according to Dylan Byers at Politico.Cumulus has decided that it will not renew its contracts with either host, the source said, a move that would remove the two most highly rated conservative talk personalities from more than 40 Cumulus channels in...

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Boston Radio: The Herald Ready to Launch Internet Station

Jeff KatzThe Boston Herald is poised to take a dramatic step toward a richer experience for its online audience as it launches a new Internet radio station.The countdown has begun for 6 a.m. next Monday, Aug. 5, when Boston Herald Radio goes live.Veteran talk show host Jeff Katz will launch a morning drive news talk show that will lead into 12 hours of live broadcasting each weekday.There will be four shows in all, including “Live from the Newsroom...

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