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Emmis/Austin Stunting to Land on Regional Mexican Emmis-owned KDHT-FM (Hot 93.3)/Austin dropped Hip Hop Wednesday (11-18) for the stunt mode and now comes word that co-owned AAA KGSR-FM will move from 107.1 to 93.3 after a 10-day simulcast that begins Friday (11-20) at 5pm. Following the conclusion of the simulcast, 107.1 will become a Regional Mexican outlet. More

Emmis Loses Hungarian National Radio ''Slager'' Emmis lost its Hungarian national radio station, Slager, on Wednesday after the National Radio and Television Board (ORTT) awarded the license to a Hungarian political party. Concurrently, they awarded the other national license, Danubius, to the other national political party. Emmis had held the broadcasting license More

Emmis Flips KDHT (Hot 93.3)/Austin to Stunt Mode Emmis-owned KDHT-FM (Hot 93.3)/Austin has dropped Hip Hop and is stunting ahead of a rumored format flip. The entire programming and air staff is out and the station is running jockless. A new format is expected to debut on Friday, November 20. The station was ranked number nine 12+ in Arbitron's Summer Report with a More

Lance Richard Named Entercom VP/Digital Sales Entercom names radio and digital veteran Lance Richard as VP/Digital Sales, effective November 12. He will oversee Entercom's local and national digital sales initiatives working with the company's sales and marketing staffs. Richard will be based in Chicago and will report to Regional President Deborah Kane. Kane stated, More

Group CEOs Call For FM Tuners in Cell Phones Group heads and CEOs from evey major broadcast group, including Cumulus, Entercom, Clear Channel, Commonwealth, Bonneville, Emmis, Greater and Citadel met in separate meetings with FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and Commissioner Robert McDowell on Tuesday. More

Emmis Avoids NASDAQ Delisting as Shares Rise Shares of Emmis Communications have avoided delisting by trading above $1.00 for the past ten days. The stock closed Monday at $1.53 after bottoming out at 24 cents in July. NASDAQ notified Emmis in September that it would be delisted if the company's stock didn't rise above the minimum bid price of $1 per share for 10 straight More

KIHT/St. Louis Restructures to Offer More Music KIHT-FM (K-Hits 96)/St. Louis announced a major shake-up in its daily programming on Monday. "The Showgram," K-Hits morning talk show, will be discontinued and replaced with an all-music format hosted by market vet Rick Sanborn. Longtime late afternoon personalities Katy Kruze and Carl "The Intern" Middleman are also out. 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 More

Emmis to Avoid NASDAQ Delisting as Shares Rise Shares of Emmis Communications have traded above $1.00 for the past five days, closing Monday at $1.50. This puts the broadcaster halfway to maintain its listing on NASDAQ. The stock exchange notified Emmis in September that it would be delisted if the company's stock didn't rise above the minimum bid price of $1 per share for More

KROX-FM (101X)/Austin Morning Hosts Suspended And the hits just keep on comin' as Emmis has suspended KROX-FM (101X)/Austin morning hosts Jason Alvarez and Deb O'Keefe for using words on-air that resembled a racial slur. Both were suspended for a week without pay, and now comes word that all Emmis Radio air personalities will now have to undergo cultural and diversity More

Emmis Interactive, dmr Ink Interactive Partnership Emmis Interactive signs with dmr to partner its interactive platform with dmr's PPM analysis and marketing strategy. When combined, the two companies say they will provide radio stations with the skills to identify and recruit the right consumers, as well as the ability to craft an ongoing strategy. "Our CMS platform, More

Emmis Radio Fiscal Q2 Revenues Down 26.5% In a filing with the SEC Friday, Emmis Communications reported a 26.5% drop in revenues for its fiscal second quarter to $67.8 million from 92.7 million a year earlier. Station operating income (SOI) fell 50.1% from $27.1 million. The company posted a net loss of $135.6 million ($3.67 per share), compared to net earnings More

Emmis Shares Top $1 Mark for First Time Since 2008 Shares of Emmis Communications topped the $1.00 on Tuesday, if only briefly, the radio broadcaster's highest stock price since October, 2008. The shares closed at 99 cents, up 32 cents, or about 48%, on heavy volume. Earlier this year, Nasdaq sent a delisting notice to Emmis warning that if its stock price doesn't exceed More

Bob Richards Joins Emmis/Indianpolis as Cluster OM 20-year veteran programmer Bob Richards is named Operations Manager of Emmis Radio's 4-station group in Indianapolis, including News/Talk WIBC-FM, Soft AC WYXB-FM (105.9), Country WLHK-FM and Sports WFNI-AM (The Fan). Previously, Richards served as PD of crosstown WFMS-FM and OM of Cumulus' cluster there, before leaving in More

KKOB-AM/Albuquerque Named Legendary Station Citadel's Talk KKOB-AM/Albuquerque was named Legendary Station of the Year during the 2009 NAB Marconi Radio Awards hosted by TRN's Laura Ingraham at the NAB Radio Show Thursday night in Philadelphia. KKOB beat out the likes of KQRS-FM/Minneapolis WGY-AM/Albany, NY, and WMJX-FM/Boston. Lampo Group's Dave Ramsey was named More

Citadel Broadcasting Ups Michael Pallad to EVP/DOS Citadel Broadcasting ups Michael Pallad to the newly-created position of Executive VP/Sales, effective immediately. In his new role, Pallad will oversee of all of Citadel's sales platforms, including Citadel Media, Corporate, Digital and National sales. Previously, Pallad served as VP/Sales for Citadel Broadcasting, where he More

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