Taliaferro Celebration Set
A celebration of life has been scheduled for January 12 for former KGO San Francisco talker Ray Taliaferro. Earlier this month Taliaferro was found dead in a wooded area in Paducah, Kentucky. He went missing in November.
iHeart, CCOH To Separate
iHeartMedia and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings have come to an agreement to fully separate CCOH's business from iHeartMedia, which now owns 89.1 percent of CCOH's outstanding common stock.
Former WHP Host Dies
Bob Durgin's radio career spanned 50 years. His final stop was WHP580 in Harrisburg hosting afternoons.
Smart Advertisers Don’t Make This Mistake
(By Bob McCurdy) Over the past few months, several major national advertisers have jettisoned stereotypical marketing assumptions and have begun to take a more inclusive advertising approach.
KMJR — La Caliente 98.3FM — Changes Hands
Educational Media Foundation has agreed to purchase KMJR (FM), licensed to Odem, Texas, and serving the Corpus Christi market, from Tejas Broadcasting for $432,000. Tejas is headed by James Anderson which has other broadcast interests in Corpus Christi.
EMF Snags Another Station
During the holiday break Educational Media Foundation announced it was purchasing WATG-FM in Trion, GA, which serves the Rome, GA, market for $200,000.
Asking The Audience: Big Mistake
(By Ronald Robinson) Today, Big Radio wants even more consolidation — more market glutting. Although they don’t say so, what they really want is less competition from the players that would remain.
Station Secures Thousands Of Meals For The Needy
Milwaukee Sports Talk station 97.3 The Game raised over $1,500 and collected over 1,900 pounds of food to benefit Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, with their inaugural Food for the Holidays event.
Sports Talk Duo Have The Giving Spirit
Mike Golic and Trey Wingo, hosts of Golic & Wingo, have donated 500 gifts to Toys for Tots on behalf of ESPN Radio. The studio was filled with 500 toys, and four members of the Marines were on-set to accept the donations.
Congratulations Gordon Smith
National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Gordon Smith is Radio Ink's Radio Executive Of The Year. The NAB scored some very big victories for radio in 2018. Gordon Smith and his team at the NAB are responsible for those accomplishments.
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