New Jersey personal injury law firm Keefe Bartels says it is investigating HD Radio in cars "and whether consumers are being forced to purchase technology that does not work as claimed." Among the complaints the law firm cites: an "echo sound" when a station switches between HD and analog and "insufficient numbers of HD Radio stations." |
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RadioTime has acquired the TuneIn Internet radio iPhone application -- which features the RadioTime directory -- and hired TuneIn's creator as a developer to oversee Phone and future iPad apps. |
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A political action committee known as Bankrupting America was the leading political spender in August, Media Monitors reports, as the PAC spent $669,203 on radio to talk about government spending. In second place for the month was the Meg Whitman for Governor campaign in California, with the NAB's ad opposing a performance royalty for radio coming in third. |
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross has been appointed a mediator in the long-running Tribune Co. bankruptcy proceedings. Tribune CEO Randy Michaels said, "We welcome Judge Gross' participation in the process." |
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George Beasley's GGB Las Vegas closes on its $8.5 million purchase of KVGS and KOAS/Las Vegas from Riviera Broadcast Group. |
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New York Market Radio will host the "Rated R" event in Times Square on September 28, during Ad Week. The event will feature keynoter Sir Richard Branson and Westwood One personality Dennis Miller, and the aim is to educate advertisers and show them that radio is not a "dirty little word." |
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Peconic Public Broadcasting has been given a 72-hour extension to come up with the last payment for WLIU/Long Island. PPB, formed to buy the station and keep its format after Long Island University announced plans to sell, will be put back up for sale if the group can't raise the remaining $637,000, the East Hampton Press reports. |
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Apple Launches Social Music Service
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