WABC Is Building a Long Island Megaphone and Red Apple Is Not Being Shy About It
There is buying a translator to fill a coverage gap, and then there is what Red Apple Media appears to be doing with 77 WABC across Long Island. The company…
Damon Darling Got Banned for Doing What the World Needs More Of
There are corporate decisions that might make perfect sense around a conference table but look completely different when they collide with actual human beings, and the situation involving Damon Darling…
107.3 Is Playing Musical Chairs Again — So What Should Kansas City Put There Next?
If 107.3 KMJK could talk, it might politely ask Kansas City radio management to stop moving its furniture long enough for it to figure out where the couch belongs. This…
A Major Reset at Pillar Media: Skip Mahaffey Exits as Star Rebuilds Mornings Across Three Markets
When one programming decision simultaneously changes mornings in Cincinnati, Denver and New Jersey, it isn’t merely an airshift adjustment. Pillar Media is making a substantial reset across its Star Christian…
101.5 Lite FM Turns One Legendary Miami Airshift Into Two Big Moves
Replacing 34 years of familiarity isn’t something a radio station accomplishes by simply putting another name on the schedule. When Gayle Garton retired from Audacy’s 101.5 Lite FM WLYF after…
Hits 105 Arrives in Kansas City: Cumulus Just Answered Our Question — and This One Is in Our Backyard
Yesterday, On The Dial asked one very simple question: Why? Why would Cumulus Media clear the programming and personality ranks at Power 105.1 KCJK, including experienced Kansas City broadcasters like…
Zach Sang Is Coming Back to FM Radio — And 99.7 Now May Be the Beginning of Something Much Bigger
There are talent announcements, and then there are moves that say something much larger about where radio could be headed. Zach Sang returning to terrestrial broadcasting on Connoisseur Media’s 99.7…
WTOP Is Building a Newsroom for the Way People Actually Consume News Now
WTOP has spent decades mastering one of radio’s most demanding promises: give Washington the news it needs, quickly, accurately and repeatedly throughout the day. Now the Hubbard all-news powerhouse is…
Power 105.1 Is About to Change: But the Bigger Kansas City Question Is… Why?
Something significant is happening at 105.1 in Kansas City, and this one deserves considerably more examination than simply writing format change coming and moving along. Cumulus Media’s Hip Hop and…
Another Bay Area Voice Goes Silent: Lamont Exits 107.7 The Bone as Radio’s Personality Problem Gets Harder to Ignore
San Francisco radio has lost enough legendary voices that another departure shouldn’t feel surprising anymore, but somehow this one still lands like a punch. Lamont Hollywood is out at Cumulus…