Bob Rivers -- whose been in morning drive in Seattle for 21 years, the last 10 at CBS Classic Rock KZOK -- is off the air for the foreseeable future after failing to come to terms with the station on a new contract. |
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Mark Edwards has parted ways with CBS AC KEZK and Hot AC KYKY in St. Louis, where he served as Director/Programming for more than four years. |
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On the day their contract would have come to an end, Opie & Anthony reportedly signed a new two-year deal with Sirius XM. |
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Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin announced that satellite-radio service expects to end the year with about 20.1 million subscribers, which would mark the company's all-time subscriber high. |
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Live Nation Executive Chairman and Front Line Management Group Chairman/CEO Irving Azoff has been appointed to Clear Channel's board of directors to replace Kent Weldon, who resigned. |
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The co-owner of Fargo, ND stations KEGK (Eagle 106.9) and WZFG (The Flag) may have to pay back the $36.3 million in profits that he allegedly made in the $3.6 billion Ponzi scheme involving Minneapolis businessman Tom Petters, but the station owner intends to fight the allegations. |
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Once again, Radio One has extended the expiration date on its previously announced exchange offer for notes due in 2011 and 2013. The new deadline is October 22. |
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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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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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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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