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Westwood One will launch The Robert Wuhl Show in January, a sport talk show hosted by the actor, comedian, and former star of HBO's Arliss. |
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COO Dick Costolo moves up to CEO at Twitter while co-founder Evan Williams moves to focus on strategy. Williams said in a post on the company blog that Costolo, who joined the company last year, "has been a critical leader in devising and executing our revenue efforts, while simultaneously and effectively making the trains run on time in the office." |
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Verizon has agreed to refund millions of dollars to customers who were charged a "mystery fee," but the FCC's Enforcement Bureau is still investigating the matter, saying Verizon took too long to acknowledge and address the problem. As many as 15 million Verizon customers were charged "data access" fees even though they didn't subscribe to data plans. |
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The FCC has sent notices of apparent liability for $15,000 apiece to two men who admitted to operating a pirate radio station at 99.7 FM in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood. The FCC traced the signal to the two men after a complaint from a licensed broadcaster. |
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Consent decrees and voluntary payments of $5,000 end the FCC Enforcement Bureau's investigation into whether Peconic Public Broadcasting prematurely took control of WLIU/Southampton, NY, from Long Island University. Neither the school nor Peconic has admitted any wrongdoing. |
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CBS Corp. is preparing to sell $600 million in bonds, Bloomberg Businessweek reports, with notes to be due in 2021 and 2040. |
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Radio Ink is ramping up for the annual Best Managers in Radio issue, and we're counting on our readers to tell us who should be included on this exclusive list. Click the headline to learn more. |
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Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the influential Huffington Post and co-host of public radio's Left, Right & Center, will provide the luncheon keynote at Radio Ink's Forecast 2011, to be held December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Huffington, the author of 13 books including most recently On Becoming Fearless in Love, Work, and Life and Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, launched the Huffington Post news and blog site in 2005. |
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Eric Rhoads, publisher of Radio Ink is developing a new iPad application that will choose some historic audio clips of air personalities from throughout radio history. If you would like historic telescoped airchecks of you on the air to be included, or if you have an aircheck collection, please e-mail us your MP3s. Click the headline for more information. |
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