Radio

1. Perez Hilton Teams With CBS Radio for Multi-Platform Content Partnership

   July 16, 2015 6:37 PM EDT CBS Radio announced Thursday a new partnership with web, TV and radio personality Perez Hilton on a variety of content initiatives, including the launch of an exclusive podcast for CBS' Play.it podcast network. As well, Hilton's Radio Pe ...

2. New Study Explores Success Rates (Or Lack Thereof) for New Female Country Acts

   July 15, 2015 11:15 AM EDT A new research study offers some startling statistics about the success rate for both male and female artists in country music, along with a few surprises. The research was conducted by Devarati Ghosh , a New York-based political economist and Sta ...

3. Ryan Seacrest Inks New Mega Deal with iHeartMedia

   July 13, 2015 8:00 AM EDT Ryan Seacrest’s radio reign continues. The entertainment mogul has inked a new, expanded deal with iHeartMedia. Seacrest will remain a key advisor for the company, continuing to work closely with CEO Bob Pittman and president Rich Bressler, and as ...

4. 90 Years In The Making: Q&A With the Grand Ole Opry's Radio Show Runner Pete Fisher

   June 30, 2015 1:42 PM EDT Come Nov. 28, the Grand Ole Opry will celebrate 90 years on the air at WSM-AM Nashville. Pete Fisher has been the show’s vp/GM for 16 years -- his anniversary was June 28 -- and in that time, the Opry has expanded from two nights a week to additio ...

5. SiriusXM Radio Host Storme Warren on His 'Strange' Business

   June 25, 2015 3:17 PM EDT Since former SiriusXM programmer Jon Anthony brought him into the fold in the late 2000s, Storme Warren has transitioned nicely from a longtime role as the host of GAC’s Headline Country to the host of the morning show on contemporary country cha ...

6. Who Makes More -- a Radio-Show Host or an 'SNL' Music Booker? Media Salaries Revealed

   June 19, 2015 3:54 PM EDT WHO MAKES WHAT: Journalists |   Booking Agents | Artist Managers | Music Publishing | Top Earners | Label Execs | Artists, Big & Small  | Radio & TV |  Digital/Streaming  |  Touring * LOCAL MORNING HOST -- They’re on the air for just fou ...

7. Joel Raab, Radio Whisperer, Explains the Art of His Craft

   June 18, 2015 5:16 PM EDT When the Country Radio Hall of Fame inducts the new class on June 24 in Nashville, the honorees will include Joel Raab , a Long Island native who first heard country on 1,000-watt AM signal WTHE, which also became the first station he worked at as ...

8. Radio Disney Country to Launch This Fall: Exclusive

   June 12, 2015 1:30 PM EDT Radio Disney announced today (June 12) that it is launching Radio Disney Country. The 24/7 network will feature "chart-bound young artists and today's biggest country hits including Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, Maddie & Tae, T ...

9. Tyler Farr Brings The Angst To New Single 'Withdrawals'

   June 11, 2015 2:15 PM EDT Robert Palmer was neither the first nor the last artist to view personal relationships as a narcotic. Dan Seals’ "Addicted," Roxy Music’s "Love Is the Drug," Kenny Chesney and Grace Potter’s "You and Tequila," B.J. Th ...

10. Billboard Launches 'Billboard Radio China,' Asia's First Billboard-Branded Internet Radio Station

    May 28, 2015 9:33 PM EDT Billboard has launched Billboard Radio China, Asia's first Billboard -branded internet radio station. The new venture is in partnership with media and technology holding company Tork Limited with the intent of becoming the leading music desti ...

11. Radio Seems To Like Brantley Gilbert Just As He Is

    May 22, 2015 11:23 AM EDT “I like being different,” admits Brantley Gilbert. “The way I look at it is, as long as I know there’s a box, and I’m outside of it, I’m good to go.” While that attitude doesn’t always endear country artists to radio, Gilbert found programmers qui ...

12. Is the Long War Between American Radio and the Record Business About to End?

    May 07, 2015 3:12 PM EDT It's just like old times. In a skirmish nearly a century old, the broadcast radio and recording industries are squaring off once again, over master recording performance rights. MusicFIRST -- the coalition that includes the RIAA, the Record ...

13. Solos Under Siege: Country Radio Combats 'Bored' Listeners By Cutting Guitar Parts

    May 05, 2015 1:31 PM EDT The guitar is such an iconic logo for country music that when the Nashville Sounds AAA baseball team moved to a new stadium this year, designers made a point to incorporate a guitar-shaped scoreboard similar to one that became a talking point for ...

14. Pandora's Radio Station Gets FCC Approval

    May 05, 2015 8:54 AM EDT Pandora can now start playing music -- on the FM dial. Broadcast approval for Rapid City, South Dakota's KXMZ, which Pandora purchased for $600,000 in the summer of 2013 was finally given the green light by the FCC last night. The license und ...

15. SiriusXM Reports First Quarter Growth in Earnings, Subscribers

    April 28, 2015 8:26 AM EDT Sirius‎XM Radio on Tuesday reported improved first-quarter financials as it continued to grow its subscriber base. The satellite radio giant, led by CEO Jim Meyer and controlled by John Malone 's Liberty Media, added 431,000 net new subscribe ...

16. Veteran New York Radio DJ Vin Scelsa: 'I Will Always Remember Iggy Throwing Up On Me'

    April 27, 2015 1:07 PM EDT On May 2, Vin Scelsa -- a pioneer of free-form radio, a warm and wise voice on New York's airwaves and a hero to a generation of DJs through his stints on WFMU, WNEW, WXRK and most recently WFUV and SiriusXM -- will air the last installment o ...

17. iHeartMedia Debuts Audio-Based Programming With Jared Leto, Summit Series At Debut 'SoundFront'

    April 22, 2015 7:19 PM EDT The success of NPR’s Serial  podcast was a wake-up call to Microsoft vet Gayle Troberman, who in October became iHeartMedia’s first chief marketing officer: If more than 68 million people could interact with one audio narrative, why couldn’t radio ...

18. Nashville Briefs: Warner/Chappell Snags 'Drink to That All Night' Songwriter; Cumulus Radio Launches New Country Countdown Show

    April 22, 2015 1:30 PM EDT Billboard's Tom Roland rounds-up all the big moves and shakes happening in Nashville and the wide world of country music radio. Songwriter Lance Miller signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music . His credits include Jerrod Niemann & ...

19. Scott Hopeck Named President of iHeartMedia New York

    April 20, 2015 6:15 PM EDT Scott Hopeck has been named president of iHeartMedia's New York market, the media giant announced Monday. In this position, he will lead broadcast, digital, mobile, social and live event efforts for major radio stations including 103.5 KTU, Q ...

20. Norway to Be First Country to Shut Down FM Radio

    April 20, 2015 1:42 PM EDT Steely Dan , the jazz-rockers who scored a hit in 1978 with their single "FM (No Static At All)," would not be pleased. In what will likely be the first of a global transition to digital radio, Norway has announced it will switch off its ...

21. CBC 'Failed' Its Employees in Handling of Jian Ghomeshi, Ousted Host

    April 17, 2015 1:33 PM EDT An anonymous hotline, reexamination of the executive producer role, and a "respect at work and human rights ombudsperson" were among the recommendations made to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in a 52-page report, entitled &q; ...

22. CBS Radio President and CEO Dan Mason Announces Retirement, Replacement Named

    April 13, 2015 2:43 PM EDT Update, 2:42PM ET, April 13: CBS Radio has named Andre Fernandez to replace Mason as president and CEO.   Dan Mason , president and CEO of CBS Radio, the third-most powerful radio conglomerate in the U.S., announced his retirement, scheduled for t ...

23. Controversy Over Little Big Town's 'Girl Crush' & Its 'Lesbian Theme' Is Mostly Fabricated

    March 27, 2015 12:25 PM EDT In an interview last fall, Little Big Town 's Karen Fairchild used the word "provocative" to describe what is now the group's current single, "Girl Crush." She couldn't have been more dead-on in describing the ...

24. AIM Independent Music Awards Announce Return

    March 26, 2015 8:00 AM EDT The AIM Independent Music Awards, an annual celebration of indie artists and industry figures, will take place Sept. 8 at The Brewery in London. Returning as hosts will be XFM's John Kennedy and Radio 1's Alice Levine . "Independent ...

25. Country Radio Goes Pop: How Formats Shift When Genres Cross

    March 23, 2015 10:21 PM EDT It's not often that radio stations do something distinctive enough to get other radio people talking, but at least two reached out to me within a few minutes of each other on Monday and all it took was the addition of a few pop titles to two ...

26. The Enterprising Fans of New Music: When Listeners Become Their Own Music Supervisor

    March 12, 2015 9:05 AM EDT By themselves, any of the numbers are sobering for broadcast radio. In the 2015 version of Edison Research's "Infinite Dial" survey, respondents between ages 12-to-24  who say that it is "very important" or "somewhat ...

27. Music Row Bids Farewell to Billboard's Wade Jessen: 'He Loved This Community So Much'

    March 10, 2015 10:25 AM EDT He was an exacting chart manager, a devoted family man and a deeply spiritual soul with a quick humor pocked by farm-boy references. That's how Billboard senior chart director Wade Jessen was remembered during a March 9 memorial in Nashville ...

28. Listen to Zane Lowe's Final Show With BBC Radio 1

    March 05, 2015 8:59 PM EST With Zane Lowe leaving his BBC Radio 1 show after more than a decade to join Apple , he recorded his final broadcast Thursday and made it a relaxed free flowing two-hour affair revisiting some of the show's favorite songs over his tenure.  Za ...

29. From Bro to Blah: Is Country Radio's Shift in Younger Listeners a Crisis or a Driver?

    March 03, 2015 9:10 AM EST There was a significant moment at the "State of the Music" panel at last week's Country Radio Seminar when WXTU Philadelphia PD Shelly Easton declared that she was not ready for country radio's 18-34 success of recent years to ...

30. Why Must Country Singles Be 'Worked' By Labels to Be Played on Commercial Radio?

    March 02, 2015 11:02 AM EST When Brandy Clark teamed up with Dwight Yoakam on the Feb. 7 Grammy Awards to perform her album track "Hold My Hand," it was a revelatory moment for many in country radio. Based on the chatter on social media that night, many programmers ...

31. Grand Ole Opry House Added to National Register of Historic Places

    February 27, 2015 9:20 AM EST The Grand Ole Opry's home since 1974 has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Opry's sixth home, the Opry House represents the heart and soul of country music and has hosted countless concerts, award shows, radio b ...

32. Pandora Has a New Way for Artists to Drop Targeted Messages to Fans

    February 19, 2015 12:39 PM EST Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren announced a new feature on Wednesday that will give artists the ability to speak directly to fans on the streaming radio service. Called "Artist Messaging," artists will be able to record short announcem ...

33. Pandora Posts Improved Financials, Misses Fourth-Quarter Guidance

    February 05, 2015 7:52 PM EST Pandora posted improved calendar-year financials, but missed its fourth-quarter guidance and provided future guidance below analysts' expectations. As a result, its shares were punished in after-hours trading. Many of the key metrics revealed ...

34. Is Jay Z Buying Hot 97?

    January 19, 2015 6:28 PM EST Jay Z is reportedly part of a group in negotiations to purchase New York radio station Hot 97, according to MediaTakeOut.com .  Jay Z Signs Middleweight Boxing Champ Andre Ward to Roc Nation Sports The website cites an unnamed "rock solid s ...

35. AC Radio Felt Less Christmas Cheer in 2014 Amid Format Landscape Changes

    January 09, 2015 12:03 PM EST It's been about 20 years since the all-Christmas format became more than a stunt for radio stations that were in the process of changing format. It's been over a decade since going to all-Christmas music mid-November became an inevitab ...

36. Ross on Radio: What About Bob? Enjoying a Station In Its Final Days

    November 13, 2014 9:30 AM EST I’ve just spent the last 36 hours listening obsessively to a radio station in a way that I don’t often listen these days. They played one song after another that I haven’t heard on the radio in years.  But don’t try to listen to them. They’re go ...

37. What Is Bad? A Worst Songs Countdown Goes Beyond Good and Evil

    October 28, 2014 10:45 AM EDT What do “Who Let The Dogs Out” and “Stairway To Heaven” have in common? Both make a prominent appearance among the 88 worst songs of all time, as voted by listeners of triple-A WXPN Philadelphia . WXPN unveiled the listing last Saturday, Oct. 25 ...

38. SiriusXM Sees Growth in Earnings, Subscribers in Third Quarter

    October 28, 2014 8:32 AM EDT Sirius ‎XM Radio on Tuesday reported improved third-quarter earnings as it continued to grow its subscriber base. The satellite radio giant, led by CEO Jim Meyer , added 432,817 net new subscribers in the period to end September with a total of ...

39. SBS Names Eric Garcia Radio Revenue Chief, GM of New York Market

    October 21, 2014 8:18 PM EDT The longtime SBS executive will oversee local and national radio divisions. Eric Garcia has been named radio revenue chief of SBS' radio division, according to a spokesperson. Garcia will manage local and national radio divisions along with ...

40. Google Play Music Now Integrates Songza

    October 21, 2014 12:01 PM EDT Users of the Google Play All Access subscription service will see a new feature on Tuesday. Activity-based radio stations are the first signs of Google Play's integration of Songza, the Internet radio service Google acquired in July . The a ...

41. Lorde's 'Royals' Gets Banned in San Francisco for World Series

    October 19, 2014 7:05 PM EDT Lorde 's not getting any love from San Francisco right now. As the city's Giants head into the World Series against the Kansas City Royals, the singer's hit "Royals" has been blacklisted from local radio.  MLB Playoffs: ...

42. Gayle Troberman Named iHeartMedia Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer

    October 16, 2014 8:24 PM EDT iHeartMedia Inc. has announced Gayle Troberman will be the global media and entertainment company's new executive vice president and chief marketing officer.  Under this newly created position, Troberman will develop strategies to connect t ...

43. Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst to Headline KCSN Benefit Concerts

    October 13, 2014 12:43 PM EDT Los Angeles public radio station KCSN will hold its annual benefit concert on two consecutive weekends in December. On the bill: Sarah McLachlan , with special guest  Laura Marling , on Dec. 5; Ryan Adams , Conor Oberst and David Gray on Dec. 12 ...

44. BBC Presenter Paul Gambaccini Won’t Face Charges Over Alleged Sex Offenses

    October 12, 2014 11:22 PM EDT British prosecutors say veteran BBC radio and TV host Paul Gambaccini will not face charges after a lengthy investigation into alleged sexual offenses. Prosecutors said Friday there is insufficient evidence to bring a case against the 65-year-ol ...

45. Revisionist History 101: The Hot 100's Year-End No. 1 Songs, Then… And Now (Part One)

    October 10, 2014 1:30 PM EDT When is a No. 1 not a No. 1? How about when modern-day sales and radio airplay data replace that of any year in Billboard Hot 100 history prior to the rise of iTunes? To see how America's tastes have changed over the years, each year's ...

46. iHeartRadio Soon Available on Android Wear Smartwatches

    October 08, 2014 9:31 PM EDT Taylor Swift , Ariana Grande , Calvin Harris and all the other favorite iHeartRadio artists will soon be available on your watch.  The digital radio service announced Wednesday it will have an app on Android Wear smartwatches next week on Oct. 1 ...

47. Kevin Metheny, Howard Stern Rival & Radio Executive, Dead at 60

    October 04, 2014 4:53 PM EDT Kevin Metheny , a longtime radio programmer and operations manager, has died. Metheny died Friday at the age of 60. His death was first confirmed by allaccess.com and later reported by The Chicago Tribune . The Daily News  reports he died of a h ...

48. British Radio DJ Convicted of Indecent Assault

    September 23, 2014 3:24 PM EDT Veteran British radio DJ Dave Lee Travis was convicted Tuesday (Sept. 23) of indecent assault . The 69-year-old Travis, whose real name is David Griffin, was cleared on two other assault charges. Travis was a longtime DJ on BBC radio and host of ...

49. Americana Awards: Jason Isbell Sweeps, Sturgill Simpson Wins New Artist Honors

    September 18, 2014 11:52 AM EDT Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell swept the major awards Wednesday night at the Americana Honors & Awards, creating another special moment with his wife, Amanda Shires . Isbell won artist, album and song of the year during the 13th annual award ...

50. Instagram Co-Founder Kevin Systrom Joins KCRW Board of Directors

    September 18, 2014 9:28 AM EDT Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom has joined the board of directors of Los Angeles-area community radio station KCRW . His appointment is effective immediately and brings the total number of board members for the venerable station to 25 ...

Pages