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We don't expect an official announcement until Tuesday morning, however, after some stunting with rock music, the former Nash Icon station in Birmingham is expected to flip to Talk. In fact, the "Talk 99.5" website is already up and lists talk shows with Dale Jackson, Matt Murphy, Richard Dixon, and others. Nash Icon launched on WZZR-FM in August of 2014. At least for now it's being called "99.5 The South."

iHeartMedia's 1470 ESPN Deportes will launch Thursday in Allentown. Programming will include play-by-play coverage of the Phillies and Eagles games, and sports talk shows, including Jorge Ramos y su Banda, which provides soccer analysis, Raza Deportiva, and Firma ESPN, the network’s morning show.

Voting for the 2016 National Radio Hall of Fame Inductees is now underway. The 24 nominations in six categories were determined by the organization’s nominating committee. Inductees will be announced July 11. The induction ceremony will be held Thursday, November 17, at the Museum of Broadcast and Communications in downtown Chicago. Here are the 2016 nominees...

The New York Mets’ radio flagship, 710 WOR-AM/New York, announced Monday that it will re-air the entire radio broadcast of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox, as a prelude to a Memorial Day weekend-long tribute at Citi Field to the 1986 Championship team.

The San Antonio Express-News reports that Jon Belk of Franklin Advisers, Inc., investment adviser to certain iHeartMedia bondholders, was completely blindsided when he heard of the December 3rd transfer of Clear Channel Outdoor shares.

When CBS corporate reports its quarterly earnings, radio is but a blip on the company TV screen. That will obviously change if the radio division is spun off, which some are predicting will happen early next year. Because CEO Les Moonves hardly pays attention to radio in his quarterly report, it's impossible to ever know what the CBS Radio revenue is. It's reported as part of "local broadcast," which includes TV. Variety columnist Jan Dawson thinks he figured out the radio numbers.

The presumptive Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump reached out to WTMJ Milwaukee host Charlie Sykes last week in an attempt to move him into his camp and gain his vote. Sykes was an early member of the #NeverTrump campaign.

That's exactly what former Clear Channel employee Andy Kovacs is attempting to do in Tampa. Kovacs tells The Tampa Bay Times that he wants to take radio back to its roots. Kovacs is running Low Power Radio Station WYPW-FM 99.9, or Power 100, which covers only 14 miles.