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FOX Sports Radio will debut on WBCN 94.7 FM, 1660AM, and WSOC HD-3, with the official launch taking place on Monday, February 4. Here's the full lineup...

The Mayes & Eytan Sports Talk radio show is set to debut in the midday time slot of noon to 2:00 p.m., Monday to Friday on 97.3FM Sports, ESPN Radio.

WLS-AM 890 is the University of Illinois' new radio affiliate and will carry all football and men’s basketball games, as well as the seasonal coaches’ shows, through the 2023-24 season.

Washington-area-based telecommunications, media, and technology law firm Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth has hired Jeffrey Mitchell. 

Magnum Media's WVTY-FM in Racine-Milwaukee has tapped veteran Milwaukee radio personality Van McNeil to handle early afternoons from Noon – 3 p.m. This will be McNeil’s first foray into the Country format.

In part four of our series on the future of radio, broker Ed Henson checks in to give us his thoughts on where radio is headed following the emergence of cleaner balance sheets from iHeart and Cumulus. And he says there are many more great companies out there that we could be focusing on.

Bonneville is reporting that former Denver sports host Irv Brown died Sunday at the age of 83. His career spanned four decades. Brown started as a sports reporter for KHOW-AM in 1974. Health issues forced Brown to retire in 2016.

(By Bob McCurdy) Maybe it’s time for the conventional wisdom of automatically equating “audience rank” with “quality” and the ingrained habit of “top-down” buying to be kicked to the curb.

(By Stephanie Winans) Station management has made a change to your show — reducing the length of the show, moving your daypart, or a change to the co-host lineup. The decision was out of your control and you’re not necessarily excited about the change. How do you respond on social media?

(By Larry Rosin) Over the 30 years since Randy Owen of the country group Alabama and others conceived of Country Cares, the radio industry’s efforts on behalf of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have raised funds approaching a staggering one billion dollars.