KGON Enters Multi-Year Deal With Blues Festival

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Portland station 92.3 KGON has signed the agreement with The Waterfront Blues Festival. Highlights of the partnership include the return of the festival to its original radio broadcast partner and the switch of KGON-HD2 station to Waterfront Blues Radio, streaming blues music all day.

Cumulus Asks For 4-Month Extension

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And the reason for that is to keep others away who may be thinking about filing a competing plan to restructure Cumulus and muddying up the progress that's been made so far. And, Cumulus says it has achieved "significant progress."

The FCC Assault on Pirates Continues

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Robert Bekune (at 98.5) and Daniel Thelisma (at 90.9) both from Irvington, New Jersey, Troy Cheever from Deltaville, Virginia (at 100.1) and Nelda Jean of Hollywood, Florida (at 91.7) are the latest alleged pirate radio operators busted by The FCC. All were given 10 days notice to end their illegal operations and explain why they were operating stations without a license.

Contract Extension Is A Capital Idea For WJFK

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The Washington Nationals have signed a five-year extension with Entercom’s Washington DC’s 106.7 The Fan (WJFK-FM) beginning with the 2018 MLB season. The partnership began seven years ago. Play-by-play announcers Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler return for their 13th consecutive season.

Summit Rolling With The Tide

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The University of Alabama, and its rights holder, Learfield, have announced a five-year agreement with SummitMedia to become the official radio home of Crimson Tide Sports Network in Birmingham.

Veritone Signs Major Broadcasters

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Veritone has signed new multi-market license agreements with Beasley, Reach Media and the Tom Joyner Network, Townsquare, and Results Radio. Veritone has also renewed its existing license agreement with Hubbard. The agreements give the broadcasters a license to the Veritone aiWARE platform.

Omaha’s KAT 103.7 Helping The Needy

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KAT 103.7, “Omaha's New Country Station,” has announced that the 16th annual Canfest, an acoustic concert, raised over $10,000 from ticket proceeds and four 50-gallon barrels of non-perishable food to benefit the Food Bank for the Heartland.

LRN Partners With SMARTS

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Local Radio Networks and SMARTS Broadcast Systems have entered into an arrangement that makes delivery of LRN’s highly localized 24/7 music formats compatible with the SMARTS Skylla System and easily available to all SMARTS Skylla affiliates.

“Bachelor” Billboard Justice Thanks To myTalk107.1

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Following Monday’s break-up episode of ABC TV’s The Bachelor, myTalk107.1 (Twin Cities) showed support for one of its own. After Arie Luyendyk, Jr. dumped his Prior Lake, MN-resident fiancée Becca Kufrin, the station quickly posted 26 digital billboards across the Minneapolis/St. Paul market in her support.

Liggins Hopes Field Can Help Fix Radio’s Pricing

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On Tuesday's earnings call, Radio One CEO Alfred Liggins was asked a question about radio's pricing pressure. His answer was that radio has been living with pricing pressure for quite some time and that's due to radio's two largest companies having balance sheet issues. So why is David Field's name in the headline?

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