Kansas City Has A Real Top 40 War Again And Mix 93.3 Is Not Moving Out Of The Way
For the first time in a while, Kansas City has the ingredients for the kind of Top 40 battle that makes radio people sit up, turn the volume higher and…
Race Taylor Says Goodbye To WCBS FM And New York Loses Another Voice That Actually Belonged Here
New York radio has always sounded best when the person behind the microphone seemed to belong to the city instead of merely broadcasting into it, and for more than a…
Nielsen Wants The Supreme Court In A Radio Ratings Fight That Could Get A Whole Lot Bigger Than Cumulus
For decades, radio programmers have lived and died by numbers that arrive on a screen and somehow manage to determine whether everybody is a genius, everybody is an idiot, somebody…
Pete Mundo Is Leaving Kansas City Without Leaving Kansas City As Cumulus Builds A Regional Talk Radio Machine
Pete Mundo apparently figured out the easiest way to get another morning radio job without packing a single box, changing zip codes or learning where another station keeps the good…
Cumulus Just Blew Up Three Hours of Syndication in Kansas and Put Miranda Khan Behind the Microphone
There is something happening on KCMO that deserves considerably more attention than another paragraph announcing a new afternoon host, because Cumulus Media just made one of those programming decisions radio…
KNBR Cut Greg Papa 36 Days Ago Now Lunch With Papa Is Bringing Him Back
Thirty six days can change almost everything in radio, but rarely does it produce a reversal quite like the one unfolding at KNBR. Greg Papa was removed from the station’s…
eD Has Apparently Been Greg This Whole Time: KDRF Goes All-In on GREG-FM
There are radio stations that conduct format changes with countdown clocks, mysterious construction noises, thousands of songs in a row and enough manufactured suspense to make listeners believe Taylor Swift…
Cumulus Needs a New Urban Programming Boss. This Might Be One of the Most Important Hires They Make!
Kenny Smoov’s departure from Cumulus Media doesn’t simply leave an empty office in Nashville or another name to remove from a corporate programming directory. It leaves something considerably more consequential…
Kenny Smoov Leaves 92Q After 21 Years And Nashville Radio Just Lost A Major Piece Of Its Urban Leadership
There are exits in radio, and then there are exits that force you to look at an entire chapter of a station’s history. Kenny Smoov is leaving Cumulus Media’s 92Q…
MARC Media Is Going Shopping In Florida And The Space Coast Is About To Become A Much Bigger Part Of Its Radio Story
Roger Holler and MARC Media are not tiptoeing around Central Florida. They are expanding. Fast. MARC Media is acquiring Cumulus Media’s three-station Melbourne cluster, adding 95.9 The Rocket WROK-FM, 102.7…