Radio & Streaming Media News for Monday 07-26-2009

Radio Headlines:

• CC Sets Date for Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Release (8-10-2009) yahoo
• Lenders seize Border Media Partners. inside radio
• D.L. Hughley comes up huge on his 1st week as Kiss-FM host ny daily news
• The Sports Fix debuts today at noon on ESPN980AM washington times
• Departing Beauchamp took WBAL to hard-edged talk programs baltimore sun
• Yazel Named OM At KCBC/San Francisco radio ink
• Max Media Appoints Michele Williams OM in Norfolk radio online
• Phillips: KLBJ hosts have right to say what they want, not to keep jobs statesman
• Late Morning, Late Night (Carol Miller WAXQ) ny times
• Ionia seeks $40,703 from B-93 owners for flooding (damage) during music festival mlive
• The Radio Bailout: Devil vs. Angel radio ink
• McDowell to FCC: Commission, Heal Thysef broadcasting and cable
• Senate Confirms Pair of FCC Commissioners media week
• Satellite radio fee debated columbus dispatch
• Berkeley Liberation Radio hits its 10th year anniversary!!! media activism
• NPR Moves to Rewire Its Approach to the Web ny times
• Labels to serve digital albums to iTunes rivals cnet
• Apple joins forces with record labels financial times
• Spotify announces £120 a year unlimited sub. Needs Jobs’ blessing register
• Ofcom awards three new community radio licences public technology
• British Gas to sponsor Absolute Radio breakfast show mad.co.uk
• Radio Point: Mirchi leads in all RAM markets in Week 28 television point india

Radio News US:

Business & Financial

• CC Media Holdings and Clear Channel Outdoor Set Date for Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Release (8-10-2009) yahoo
• Lenders seize Border Media Partners. inside radio
• Cumulus cuts market ratings. inside radio
• How’s business? Revenue bounces June above May. inside radio
• Holding Sirius Stock: An Exercise in Humility seeking alpha
• Sirius XM’s iPhone App Stats Are Misleading seeking alpha
• TV, radio weather recession gjsentinel
• Media giants prepare to report lower profits amid slowdown Viacom, Time-Warner and Disney to report this week; ad sales still down market watch
• Sumner Redstone media empire faces an uncertain future la times
• Automakers shortchange radio. inside radio
• Buyers Rely More on Web Ads, 46% Using Radio More radio online

Programming, Changes & Ratings

• Comedian D.L. Hughley comes up huge on his 1st week as Kiss-FM host ny daily news
• The Sports Fix debuts today at noon on ESPN980AM washington times
• Times debuts sports voice on ESPN radio ( WTEM Thom Loverro)  washington times
• Holder, Medhurst will debut today (friday) on 106.7FM The Fan washington examiner
• ‘The next Dr. Ruth’: Hyde Park doctor takes to the airwaves to deliver sex advice to Chicago’s African-American community chicago tribune
• New country FM in New York. inside radio
• A passion for news, radio. Departing Beauchamp took WBAL from soft music format to hard-edged talk programs baltimore sun
• WBAL’s Beauchamp Bows Out nts online
• Accord puts Channel 6 weather, news on Clear Channel radio stations milwaukee journal sentinel
• Gaddis softens tone about WADL spat detroit news
• KCBC/San Francisco Elevates Yazel to Ops Manager radio online
• Yazel Named OM At KCBC/San Francisco radio ink
• Max Media Appoints Michele Williams OM in Norfolk radio online
• Williams Joins Max Media/Norfolk Duo radio ink
• Dial Global/Triton Radio Networks Names Trautmann EVP Technology radio magazine
• Why Wendy Wendy is leaving her WBLS (107.5 FM) radio show to bet it all on ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ ny daily news
• Conclave Elects Bolke as Chairman, 5 New Directors radio online
• Jack Gravely finds his voice again (WLEE) richmond times dispatch
• Stations Set to Tackle ESPN Affils in NYC, L.A. and Dallas prep to battle Bristol behemoth’s local push broadcasting and cable
• WCBS-FM @ two; take two examiner.com
• El-Amin, brother prepare for weekly radio show on WGNU stltoday
• Brenda Tremblay succeeds Simon Pontin as WXXI morning radio host rocherster democrat and chronicle
• ‘Select choice,’ but diverse info. For almost five years, Selecta 1050 AM has broadcast Spanish music from a small, third-floor suite in the Norfolk Plaza Hotel. norfolk daily press
• Life at a radio station brings calls from everywhere thibodaux daily comet
• TV-RADIO NOTEBOOK New boss at KILT to settle issues soon houston chronicle
• Arbitron:Baltimore Cleveland Montgomery urban insite
• WHYY announces revamped Delaware staff. Following its decision to drop the Delaware Tonight newscast, WHYY has announced staffing for its TV, radio and web presence in Delaware. business ledger
• Southernmost Radio Network takes off [Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon] 4gwe
• Christmas music often arrives in time for Thanksgiving on radio heard in the Upstate the orange and white
• WKYT’s ‘Sports Spectrum’ to be shortened kentucky.com

News & PR

• Phillips: KLBJ hosts have right to say what they want but no right to keep their on-air jobs austin american statesman
• Advertiser boycotted over axed radio show Mortgage broker says he’s lost $30,000 from listeners angry about cancellation. austin american statesman
• Casey Kasem keeps reaching for the stars sf gate/radio waves
• Husted: Jamie White has another story for her radio show denver post
• Film looks at life of Jewish TV, radio star (Gertrude Berg) poughkeepsie journal
• Late Morning, Late Night (Carol Miller WAXQ) ny times
• How Howard Stern and Tom Bergeron Brought The Three Stooges to Satellite Radio about.com
• Robin roasts Joan Rivers best talk radio news
• Readers’ Choice: I-95 radio DJ Ethan Carey is the tops news times danbury
• Ionia seeks $40,703 from B-93 owners for extra expenses related to flooding during music festival mlive
• Ionia wants $ after Birthday Bash bust wood tv grand rapids
• Trafficaster sues over crash. inside radio
• Radio host injures ankle at dog show (Ken Ulmer WOXL) ashville citizen times
• Local radio station receives nomination (KLRC) nwa news
• Local radio stations offering new way of posting resumes (KGBX) ky 3
• Broadcaster tells his own survival tale Leg was amputated in oil field accident evansville courier press
• Spanish Broadcasting System and 93.3 La Raza to Hold Radiothon for Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland pr newswire
• Power 99 FM-WDAS Partner with Philadelphia NAACP radio insite
• Oldest man has hands full with media great falls tribune
• Beatles-themed benefit will help young woman with cerebral palsy (WMGK-FM) examiner.com
• Elvis’ supernova. nwa news
• Broken record: Why labels want new album format cnet
• Appreciation Runs Deep for Jingle Man radio world
• Mayfield banned again; Refuses drug test on WBT radio wbtv
• Local radio to air Indians football the wetumpka herald

OP/ED, Political & Feature

• The Radio Bailout: Devil vs. Angel radio ink
• Radio Needs more “Strategy” in its “Digital Strategy” hear2.0
• “I Do Whatever my Manager Tells Me” hear2.0
• The Cumulus War Against Itself inside music media
• Disney’s New Radio Killer inside music media
• Clueless jacobs media
• Radio: Uncoventional gorman media
• Radio needs to be more than a jukebox to attract young listeners; Twitter offers business guide rain
• All Access Interview truth justice…
• We Know Where You Live infinite dial
• Pandora’s misguided plea radio business report
• Should Radio Stations Have to Pay Performers for Airing Songs? about.com
• Meet Me at the Crossroads tommy kramer
• Radio: Facing An Opportunity radio 2020
• Keep an eye out for this revolutionary portable radio the spoof
• Resurgent watchdogs could help save news media chicago tribune
• Hate talk? Liberals have it nailed trib live
• Rush Limbaugh: Rahm Emanuel, dead fish and Obama’s failure means success — or some nonsense examiner.com
• Rush on Limbaugh the moderate voice
• Obama Vs. Rush: Here We Go Again nts online
• Rush Limbaugh: Palin’s Powerful Ally steve maloney
• Vitriol and its viewers Broadcast punditry morphs into mud wrestling washington times
• On Television and Radio, Talk of Obama’s Citizenship ny times
• Michael Savage says he is the new Dreyfuss; banned from UK because he is Jewish examiner.com

FCC & Legal

• McDowell to FCC: Commission, Heal Thyself Genachowski hears Republican’s push for internal reforms broadcasting and cable
• FCC Goes Data-Mining radio world
• Senate Confirms Pair of FCC Commissioners media week
• All Full Up At The FCC nts online
• Senate Confirms Clyburn and Baker for FCC radio magazine
• Senate Approves FCC Nominees Clyburn, Baker radio online
• Senate Confirms Baker & Clyburn To FCC fmqb
• FCC forecast to become less cloudy. inside radio
• Senate wants millions for Iranian radio radio business report
• Satellite radio fee debated columbus dispatch
• Growing Opposition to the Performance Rights Act radio 2020
• Performance Rights Act Scheduled For Senate Hearing radio ink
• FCC Daily Digest FCC

Public, Educational & Religious

• Garrison Keillor: Listen to your foes — cell phone or no springfield state journal register
• KEXP, Seattle Center team up for free concerts at the Mural Amphitheatre seattle times
• Ira Glass captures audience at Mayborn writer’s conference killeen daily herald
• Public broadcasting outlets could merge anchorage daily news
• WFHB presents audio documentary ‘To the Moon’ herald times online
• Talking Shop with Dan Woods, general manager of radio station KRCU semissourian
• Berkeley Liberation Radio hits its 10th year anniversary!!! media activism
• A place in the choir for ads at Vatican Radio la times
• Vatican Radio: Pope’s Encyclical Got US Talking zenit
• Radio broadcaster Peter Benson connects the Albuquerque faithful examiner.com
• Prayer & Worship 101: What are the Christian radio stations in Tampa Bay? examiner.com

Streaming & Tech

• NPR’s Digital Makeover. Can the mainstream media learn anything from National Public Radio’s new look and business plan? newsweek
• NPR Moves to Rewire Its Approach to the Web ny times
• NPR.org Relaunches; Video Doesn’t Play A Big Role paid content
• NPR (National Public Radio) Unveils Website Redesign resource shelf
• Media moguls rethink Web advertising in downturn reuters
• Harris: Advertisers Migrate From Print To Net media daily news
• Progressive Media Outlets Seek Ad-Sales Progress with Ad Progress Network media bistro
• AM over FM. KCST installs new ‘green’ tower system capable of broadcasting AM radio station over FM airwaves. siuslaw news
• NPR Labs Releases HD Radio Power Calculator radio magazine
• Ashton Kutcher: Twitter will change media cnet
• Labels to serve digital albums to iTunes rivals cnet
• Miro gets faster database, audio podcasts cnet
• OnlineRadioStations.com Launches its New Internet Radio Format yahoo
• Apple joins forces with record labels financial times
• Apple, Labels Work On Plan To Boost Album Sales: Report billboard
• Spotify announces £120 a year unlimited sub. Needs Jobs’ blessing, though register
• Spotify’s iPhone app: too like iTunes? Streaming music service Spotify submits iPhone app to Apple, but analysts say it might be too close to iTunes to be approved guardian
• Spotify iPhone app completed: Will Apple allow it in the App Store? cnet uk
• Spotify Submits iPhone App billboard
• The Music Streams That Soothe an Industry ny times
• Control Electricity radio world
• Pirate Bay gets shirty with Dutch anti-piracy group register
• Send Music Pirates to Jail for Seven Years – Minister individual.com
• AdMob report finds Android lifting off, passing Windows industry standard
• Musician angry after BPI forces YouTube to pull his video (Updated) ars technica
• No more juggling the radio and phone. A team of five local engineering students have come up with a novel way to help drivers deal with the nagging problem of having to turn down the music to answer calls on the handphone. nst

Radio News International:

Britain/Europe

• Ofcom awards three new community radio licences public technology
• Saucy sausage ads rapped by watchdog ASA criticises innuendo-laden radio campaign for Mattesons’ ‘extraordinarily large’ sausages as unsuitable for children guardian
• Why Laura turned down Johnny Depp. It’s just a year since she made her television debut, but MTV presenter Laura Whitmore has taken the switch of lifestyle in her stride. mail online
• UK: FM being phased out (at some point in the future) – how that affects your car…. into mobile
• British Gas to sponsor Absolute Radio breakfast show mad.co.uk
• British Gas signs six-month sponsorship with Absolute’s Christian O’Connell show media week
• BBC Switch announces 2009 Road Trip rapid talent
• Radio 1 prodigy Greg to serve seafood treats at Mersea pub gazette
• Radio experts get RadioWise radio today
• Wolf journalist to stand tall radio today
• Brown visits the Red Dragon radio today
• Alpha Radio spreads to Durham radio today
• Christian O’Connell gets Gas radio today

Asia/Africa/Oceania/Americas

• Wellington Access Radio – What’s On-Air scoop
• George FM now covers all of Auckland after frequency boost 3news nz
• Radio Point: Mirchi leads in all RAM markets in Week 28 television point india
• High royalty fees continue to haunt FM radio industry in small towns the financial express india
• Radio City School of Broadcasting completes first batch media newsline india
• Delhi has got the fever of Fever 104 FM my news india
• Community radio regulations in effect the nation business thailand
• Broadcaster shot dead in Surigao Sur inquirer philippines
• Senate wants millions for Iranian radio radio business report
• Radio show to deliver direct testimony from Palestinians inside Israeli prisons pnn
• Islamabad investigates pro-Taliban cleric google/afp
• Radio Brunei holds Royal Birthday quiz brunei online
• TRA Searches for Unlicensed Radio Frequencies Users zawya
• South Africa: Icasa Must Focus On Radio Spectrum, Says ISPA all africa
• Osei Kwame Despite – Brainchild Of Peace FM modern ghana
• Callers on Sky FM phone in programme irk Lt Gen Shikapwasha post zambia
• SA newsman finds niche at Al Jazeera the times za
• Algoa FM big hit in DJ dance-off weekend post za
• Radio Nigeria partners DAAR for football broadcast guardian newspapers
• Cliff Hughes – a passion for news jamaica observer