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In 2016, iHeart realigned its stations in Seattle, including moving Hip Hop KUBE-FM from 93.3 to 104.9, the former home of Active Rock KKBW. The thought was to target more of Tacoma. However, on Thursday night the company put an end to that experiment. Here's what VP of Programming Andrew Jeffries said...

Los Angeles station KNX 1070 News Radio is celebrating 50 years of being Southern California’s only 24-hour news and traffic station. Currently, more than 1.5 million people tune in to KNX 1070 News Radio every week.

SuiteRadio has launched a new 24/7 Country format for radio. "The Brand" is directed and anchored by Rowdy Yates with The Rowdy Ride Home, weekday afternoons. Mornings will be hosted by Brian Hatfield, Pam Kelly will hold down the mid-day shift, and nights will feature Tommy Jordan.

Katz Media Group has raised over $34,000 for the Broadcasters Foundation of America during its ninth annual two-week company-wide membership drive. All money raised supports the Foundation’s mission to improve the quality of life, and maintain the personal dignity, of radio and television broadcast professionals who find themselves in acute need.

Keith Hastings is the program director for Cox Media Group's KISS and KTKX in San Antonio. He is also the Rock format leader for the company. With 40 years now in the business, Hastings started in radio at age 16 and is now in his 32nd year of programming radio stations. He's also one of Radio Ink's Best Programmers of 2018.

On Wednesday, the company reported that revenue from its radio division was down less than 1% compared to Q1 2017. Urban One saw revenue growth in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Richmond offset by declines in Atlanta, Raleigh, and St. Louis. CEO Alfred Liggins said there are two big markets that are pretty much dragging the revenue down.

While McDonald's remains one of radio's biggest advertisers, Urban One has really taken a revenue hit from the restaurant chain.

That's the question Urban One CEO Alfred Liggins left everyone pondering yesterday. At the end of 2017, when Tom Joyner signed his last 2-year deal with Reach Media, he announced he'd be retiring at the end of 2019. Liggins isn't so sure about that.

It's been an up and down year so far for radio's largest advertising category. Auto sales were slow in February, up in March, and now weal in April. GM was off by about 8%, Ford posted a 4.7% decline in sales for the month, Nissan dropped a whopping 28% in April and Toyota reported it was down 4.7%.

Isaac Mizrahi, co-president and COO of Miami-based multicultural advertising agency Alma, discusses the important role both Spanish-language radio and English-language radio targeted to Hispanics has for the marketers and advertisers he works with on a daily basis in the latest Hispanic Radio Podcast from Radio Ink.