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Radio Disney Ups Friscia to Chicago, Milwaukee SM Radio Disney elevates Matthew Friscia to Station Manager of its owned and operated stations Childrens WRDZ-AM/Chicago and Childrens WKSH-AM/Milwaukee. Most recently, he served as an account executive for WRDZ. Friscia replaces Dave Pawelek, who exited earlier this year for a position out of radio, Director of Sales for More

Live365 Implements Seamless LiveSafe Switching Internet broadcasting network Live365 announces the launch of new LiveSafe switching for its personal and professional broadcasters. LiveSafe allows broadcasters to toggle seamlessly between live and basic broadcast modes, while retaining listeners on their station. In addition, LiveSafe delivers failover security, whi More

ESPY Events Raise $1.63 Million for V Foundation The 10th annual ESPY Celebrity Golf Classic, a Team ESPN event held Tuesday combined with ESPN Radio's sixth annual "Don't Give Up ESPYs V Foundation Auction," which concluded Friday, raised $1.63 million in net proceeds for The V Foundation for Cancer Research. The total was announced by George Bodenheimer, President More

Disney Working with Citadel Over Bankruptcy Plan Disney/ABC is reportedly working with Citadel to make sure that any bankruptcy procedure or new terms do not separate Disney from its intellectual property, including long-time call letters still in use on ABC television outlets, such as WABC, KABC and others as well as several web sites. Citadel acquired ABC's major marke More

Travis Closes on Buys of WMNE/West Palm Beach Radio Disney Group has closed on the sale of WMNE-AM/West Palm Beach (Riviera Beach) to Travis Media LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the transaction value filed with the FCC was $500,000. WMNE is a 5kw day/night directional outlet that puts a city grade signal into West Palm Beach. Eddie Esserman and Bill Wh More

Premiere Ups Johnston to SVP/Sales Central Region Premiere Radio Networks ups VP/Sales Central Region Douglas Johnston to the newly-created position of Senior VP/Sales, Central Region. Based in Chicago, Johnston will continue to lead the company's sales efforts for the Central Region and oversee the Chicago and Detroit offices. "I'm proud to be a part of Premiere as we co More

Interep Trustee Seeks Millions From Former Clients Those radio groups who used Interep as their national rep have become a target for Kenneth Silverman, the trustee overseeing the company's chapter 11 bankruptcy. Silverman has filed recovery claims against several groups saying that in the last months of Interep's operations that broadcasters were over-compensated and that the m More

Curtis Media Buys Radio Disney's WCOG/Greensboro Curtis Media is purchasing former Radio Disney affiliate 5kw WCOG-AM (1320)/Greensboro for $350,000. The station recently went dark, after Disney said it would retreat from medium and small-size markets in favor of Internet delivery and new media. WCOG had been carrying Radio Disney's Childrens programming since 2000, and was ac More

Radio Disney Sells WMNE-AM/West Palm Beach Radio Disney Group has agreed to sell WMNE-AM/West Palm Beach (Riviera Beach) to Travis Media LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the transaction value filed with the FCC is $500,000. WMNE is a 5kw day/night directional outlet that puts a city grade signal into West Palm Beach. Eddie Esserman and Bill Whitley of More

Steckline Closes Buy of Radio Disney's KQAM/Wichita Steckline Communications has closed on its acquisition of KQAM-AM (1480)/Wichita from Radio Disney. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Steckline plans to convert the station to News/Talk to compliment its co-owned all-Sports outlet, KGSO-AM (1410). KGSO GM Todd Johnson will add those duties with KQAM. Steckline Presiden More

ESPN Radio Re-Aligns Personnel, Ups Davenport ESPN Radio has made a series of personnel announcements at the network and station levels. Mo Davenport (pictured) assumes the roll of Senior VP/ESPN Radio, responsible for the leadership, management and oversight of ESPN Audio, which includes ESPN Radio, and all related content created for digital platforms and ESPN Station Gro More

Citadel Broadcasting Files for Bankruptcy Protection Citadel filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection in a Manhattan, NY, court on Sunday in a reported pre-packaged deal supported by many of its lenders that are collectively owed a whopping $2.5 billion. PE firm Forstmann Little currently owns 29% of the company's common stock. Lenders reportedly plan to swap a large portion of debt f More

Steckline Acquires KQAM/Wichita from Radio Disney Steckline Communications has agreed to acquire KQAM-AM (1480)/Wichita from Radio Disney. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, when Steckline will convert the station to News/Talk to compliment its co-owned all-Sports outlet, KGSO-AM (1410). KGSO GM Todd Johnson will a More

Forecast: $250 Million in Political for Radio in 2010 Wells Fargo senior analyst Marci Ryvicker is forecasting that 2010 political advertising figures will reach $3.3 billion, up 11% over 2008. She says that $2.1 billion will be allocated to broadcast television (67% rise) and $250 million allocated to terrestrial radio (8% gain). Issue advertising could approach $1 billion in 2010 More

Woodie Named President of Lotus Entravision Reps Entravision and Lotus Communications have announced that Phillip R. Woodie has been appointed President of Lotus Entravision Reps (LER), a joint venture radio-sales rep firm representing about 125 Spanish language radio stations. In this role, Woodie will be responsible for managing the firm's operations. Concurrently, Mary Hawl More

Citadel Media Appoints John Rosso as President Industry veteran John Rosso is appointed President of Citadel Broadcasting's network division, Citadel Media. He succeeds Jim Robinson, who exits the company after five years at the helm, mostly under the ABC Radio Networks brand. In his new role, Rosso will oversee ABC News Radio, ESPN Audio and nine individual 24-hour formats. More

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