Bonneville Seattle Media Group has announced an organizational restructure, effective Monday, August 26. Among the moves, KIRO (710 ESPN) PD Mike Salk rises to Director of Programming, overseeing KIRO-FM, 710 ESPN and KTTH-AM. Tina Sorensen is upped from KIRO/KTTH Sales Manager to Director of More

iHM to Debut ''FOX Sports Radio The Gambler'' in Philadelphia

FOX Sports Radio The Gambler

iHeartMedia/Philadelphia debuts "FOX Sports Radio The Gambler," creating a destination for Sports/Talk in Philadelphia. The new outlet will broadcast on WDAS-AM (1480), W273DO-FM (102.5) and WDAS-FM-HD2 (105.3) beginning August 26 at 3pm. The Gambler will feature More

Sam Hill Exits KQMT (99.5 The Mountain) Denver as PD

Sam Hill

Classic Rock KQMT (99.5 The Mountain)/Denver Program Director Sam Hill exits the Entercom cluster, where she also served as Assistant PD/Music Director for Hot AC KALC-FM (Alice 105.9). Hill had been with the local group for 14 years and departs after her post was eliminated. She was promoted to More

iHM Names Jerry Houston Program Director of PRIDE Radio

Jerry Houston

iHeartMedia appoints Jerry Houston as Program Director for iHeartRadio's PRIDE Radio, effective October 1. As PD, he'll manage all content and programming for the LGBTQ network's on the iHR app and its 28 HD2 stations across the country. Houston has worked for the company's Washington, DC cluster More

Beasley Broadcast Group Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

Beasley Broadcast Group

Beasley Broadcast Group has announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share of its Class A and Class B common stock. The dividend is payable on October 7, 2019, to shareholders of record on September 30. While the More

NAB Show Accepting Paper Proposals for BEIT Conference

NAB Show

Technical paper proposals are now being accepted for the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference at the 2020 NAB Show, held April 18-22 in Las Vegas. BEIT is designed for broadcast engineers and technicians, contract engineers, broadcast More

Milwaukee Bucks to Continue on WTMJ, Adds Postgame Show

WTMJ

Milwaukee Bucks games will continue to air on WTMJ-AM (Newsradio 620) and W277CV (94.5 ESPN)/Milwaukee in 2019-2020, marking the 52nd consecutive season the station has broadcast Bucks games. Ted Davis is returning to call the action for his 23rd season. Dennis More

Nashville Talk Host Arrested Over $170K in Back Child Support

Steve Gill

News/Talk WLAC-AM and W252CM (Talkradio 98.3) Nashville talk host Steve Gill was arrested on Tuesday for non-payment of $170,000 in child support, reports The Tennessean. Gill currently hosts "The Tennessee Star Gill Report" weekday mornings and founded the Tennessee Star website. He was More

BMS Celebrates 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award Winners

Beasley Media Group has announced the winners of the company's annual Outstanding Achievement Awards. The presentations were made during a special dinner that took place at the company's annual Management Meeting on Wednesday, August 21 at the Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. The celebration More

ESPN's Woody Paige Launches ''The Woody Paige Podcast''

The Woody Paige Podcast

Longtime ESPN commentator and sports columnist Woody Paige debuts "The Woody Paige Podcast" on PodcastOne. With new episodes every Thursday, Paige, known for his trademarked "Around the Horn" chalkboard, is bringing his wit and wackiness to the table, as he welcomes sports and entertainment legends More

KOGO/San Diego Inks LaDona Harvey to Contract Extension

LaDona Harvey

KOGO inks LaDona Harvey, co-host of San Diego's Morning News, to a new contract that extends her role on the iHeartMedia News/Talk outlet. For the past five years, veteran news personalities LaDona Harvey and Ted Garcia have helped San Diegans start their day with breaking news and the information More

George Plaster Joins WNSR/Nashville to Host Mid-Afternoons

George Plaster

Nashville market veteran George Plaster joins Sports WNSR-AM and W240CA to host mid-afternoons from 2-4pm, beginning September 3, reports The Tennessean. Most recently, he hosted afternoons at crosstown Country WSM-AM in Nashville. He replaces syndicated FOX Sports Radio's Colin Cowherd. More

SiriusXM to Air 77 Games During College FB's Opening Weeks

SiriusXM

SiriusXM will offer subscribers an extensive play-by-play schedule for college football's opening weeks, airing 77 live games from August 24 through September 2. The opening week schedule on SiriusXM features games from every team from the AP Top 25 poll, More

WPRT-FM/Nashville Inks ''Jared & The GM'' to Extensions

Jard Stillman and Floyd Reese

Sports WPRT-FM (ESPN 102.5 The Game) Nashville signs afternoon hosts Jared Stillman and Floyd Reese (aka Jared & The GM) to two-year contract extensions, keeping them in place through September, 2021. The duo assumed afternoons in August, 2016. Reese, who More

Borrell: Digital Radio Set to Rise 27% to $1.2 Billion in 2020

Borrell Associates has recast its 2019 estimates for Addressable Digital Advertising across all U.S. markets and is issuing overall advertising forecasts for 2020. The company reports that radio's digital ad revenue in 2018 was $0.8 billion and is expected to rise 22% in 2019 to $1 billion and grow More

Hubbard Appoints Matt Senne GM of Central MN Stations

Matt Senne

Hubbard Broadcasting names Matt Senne as General Manager of its stations in Alexandria and Wadena, MN. Senne will oversee KIKV-FM and KULO-FM in Alexandria and KKWS-FM, KWAD-AM and KNSP-AM in Wadena. Hubbard acquired 16 radio stations in northern Minnesota from Omni Broadcasting in 2015. Senne has More