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U.S. Latinos Who Speak English Turn to Spanish Radio An AP-Univision poll finds many U.S. Hispanics who speak mainly English are turning to Spanish-language radio and TV, especially for sports and entertainment. The poll found U.S. Hispanics spent at least some time each day, and in many cases, several hours, consuming Spanish-language media. Almost 90% of Hispanics watc More

FCC, Univision Enter Into $1 Million Consent Decree The FCC's Enforcement Bureau has released a Consent Decree with Univision Radio to resolve allegations that the Spanish-language broadcaster or its employees secretly accepted payment from a record label in exchange for more frequent airplay, without making the disclosures to listeners. In a companion criminal action, More

Lotus Entravision Reps Appoints Parsons, Villafane Lotus Entravision Reps appoints Don Parsons to VP/Southeast Region and Jose Villafane to Senior Account Executive/Northeast Region. Parsons, who joins from CaribeVision, will oversee the firm's Spanish-language stations in the Southeast region and will be based in Miami. Villafane, joining from Univision Television, wi More

Entravision Appoints Apodaca VP/GM in Albuquerque Entravision Corp. that Jeff Apodaca has been named VP/GM of Entravision's Television and Radio properties in Albuquerque. In this new role, Apodaca oversee KRZY-FM (105.9 Jose FM) and KRZY-AM (La Tricolor) and the company's TV outlets there. Apodaca joins Entravision from Tribune Inc., and takes over this role from Margarita Wil More

WRTO-FM (La Kalle 98.3)/Miami to Become ''Mix 98.3'' Univision Radio will flip Spanish CHR WRTO-FM (La Kalle 98.3)/Miami to "Mix 98.3" on Friday at 6am. According to RadioInsight, Mix983.com is already pointing to "La Kalle's" website, while the WURM calls were applied for by Univision on June 15. WRTO has been running commercial-free and jockless for the past few weeks ahe More

Citadel Media Ups Sales Executives Rivera, Rossi Citadel Media promotes two of its key sales executives, upping Ed Rivera-Searles (pictured near right) to Senior VP/Sales and Craig Rossi to VP/West Coast Sales. A network radio veteran, Rivera will be based in New York and will be responsible for managing all aspects of Citadel Media's sales divisions. Rossi, who comes from par More

CBS, Fox Rejoin National Association of Broadcasters CBS Corp. and Fox Broadcasting have rejoined the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), both companies announced today. The moves include the return of CBS's 130 radio stations and 29 television stations into NAB membership, as well as the 27 owned-and-operated Fox stations and the MyNetworkTV programming service. Fox More

BIA/Kelsey Reveals Top Ownership Groups of 2009 Clear Channel was the top radio ownership group of 2009, with revenues of $2.3 billion according to the new edition of "Investing In Radio Ownership Report" from BIA/Kelsey. CC was followed by CBS Radio ($1.2 billion), Citadel ($595 million), Cumulus Media ($412 million) and Entercom ($384 million). Cox Radio (362.4 millio More

Univision Q1 Revenue Up 10.6%, Radio Down 3% Univision Communications posted a 10.6% gain in first quarter net revenue to $453.7 million compared to from $410.3 million in 2009. The company's radio unit saw revenue decline of 3% to $64.3 million from $66.5 million. The Spanish-language broadcaster reported a net loss of $3.4 million as compared to a loss of $55.2 million i More

Dolphins Return to Original Spanish Radio Partner The Miami Dolphins' Spanish-language radio broadcasts will return to WQBA-AM/Miami under a new multi-year deal with Univision Radio. WQBA will air Dolphins pre-season and regular season games in Spanish, while sisters WAMR-FM, WRTO-FM and WAQI-AM will air team promotions. Univision and the team's integrated media group will join 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

Arbitron, PPM Coalition Settle Outstanding Disputes Arbitron has settled its outstanding disputes with the PPM Coalition (PPMC) with a plan to move forward collaboratively. Under the leadership of House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Arbitron and the PPMC have worked jointly with the Media Rating Council to implement a series of steps designed to enhance More

Univision to Encode Stations for PPM in Five Markets While Spanish Broadcasting System is battling Arbitron, and has once again pulled its PPM encoding, Spanish-language rival Univision has begun encoding its stations in Miami, San Diego, Phoenix, San Antonio and Las Vegas. The move could be a response to pressure from ad agencies over the lack of ratings for several months. More

Entravision Expands Digital Team in Denver Entravision expands its digital team in Denver with the additions of J. Basil Dannebohm as Interactive Sales Manager and Ryan Mulligan as Web Content Publisher, effective immediately. Both appointments reflect the Spanish-language radio operator's ongoing focus on its cross-platform content and sales initiative, known as Entravi More

Expanded Radio Advisory Council Members Revealed Arbitron has announced new members of the expanded Arbitron Radio Advisory Council. Last February, Arbitron announced new positions consisting of one seat each added for Network Radio, Digital Radio and Public Radio. The ratings company is also adding four reps from diary markets and one additional rep each for Urban and Spanish More

WCBS Signs WADO to Broadcast Yankees in Spanish CBS Radio's WCBS-AM (Newsradio 880)/New York signs a multi-year deal with Univision Radio's crosstown Spanish News/Talk for Spanish-language play-by-play broadcasts of New York Yankees. WADO will feature all 162 home and away games, as well as any postseason contests with regular season coverage beginning on April 4. WCBS More

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