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On the heels of Good Karma flipping WKTI from Country to Sports in Milwaukee, Magnum Media has decided to flip WVTY-FM (92.1) from Adult Hits to Country. 92.1.

Entercom has flipped 959 RNB in Austin with HOT 95.9 (KKMJ-HD3). The station will now include artists from the 1990s and 2000s, including Snoop Dogg, Beyoncé, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and Alicia Keys. KKMJ 95.9 is a translator.

Alpha Media, Alaska, station KAYO-FM/Olympia, WA, can take a bow: they collected 3,000 pounds of food for Frontline Mission on Saturday, October 27.

In a market with a lot of heritage when it comes to spoken word programming serving its many Spanish speakers, something remarkable can be seen when looking at the most recent Nielsen Audio ratings for Miami-Fort Lauderdale.

The former WFAN morning show co-host is on trial for allegedly swindling investors out of millions of dollars in a ticket resale business, in part, to pay his gambling debts.

What do you do when your station promotion attracts 20,000 attendees, generates incredible buzz and brings in serious revenue? You cancel it, of course. Here's why Entercom ending the event was exactly the right thing to do.

Saga Communications has entered into an agreement to purchase WOGK(FM), WNDT(FM), WNDD(FM), and WNDN(FM) from Ocala Broadcasting Corporation. All the stations serve the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida, radio market. The price was just over $9 million.

Country station 101.7 The Bull in Boston raised $123,000 to benefit St. Jude Children's Hospital with help from Lady Antebellum. An Intimate Evening with Lady Antebellum, an exclusive fundraising event at the Chevalier Theatre, featured a 1-hour acoustic concert from the group with all proceeds given to St. Jude.

Can Netflix become HBO before HBO becomes Netflix? And can radio survive without passion? Tom Asacker and media strategist Mark Ramsey will discuss.

(By Ronald Robinson) What is it going to take to, primarily, get radio back on the rails? An abrupt, industry-wide crash might be motivating.