Indians Add FM Signal for Upcoming Season.

1-29-2013

The Cleveland Indians and Clear Channel have a new agreement for WTAM-AM to remain the ?Flagship Home of the Cleveland Indians? through 2017. And, WMMS-FM will also carry the games, adding yet another FM signal for play-by-play sports. The format on WMMS-FM is rock. The agreement says WMMS-FM will air the majority of Indians games. A baseball season consists of 162 games. Are FM music fans tolerant enough to sit through what can be 5 to 7 evenings of 3-plus hour baseball games?

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AUDIO)Burns Discusses Upcoming Research

7-11-2012

Every Thursday for the next month Alan Burns and his team will host a webinar and release detailed information about research his firm conducted on how females use radio. The research focuses on the variations of the Top 40 formats, includes information about online listening and, as Burns points out in our interview here, how all of this has become a little more difficult to measure.

Here is the full schedule of th free webinars.

Thursday, July 12, 3:30-4:30pm EDT:
Industry Headlines

Thursday, July 19, 3:30-4:30pm EDT:
Radio's Digital Opportunities & Challenges

Thursday, July 26, 3:30-4:30pm EDT:
Top 40 Deep Dive

Thursday, August 2, 3:30-4:30pm EDT:
Deep Dive into AC, Hot AC, & Adult Top 40

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Upcoming War Between Cumulus and Clear Channel

As Cumulus and Clear Channel work together on iHeartRadio and SweetJack they are also getting ready to do battle in Talk Radio. In one week, Cumulus is launching Mike Huckabee in the sacred 12P-3P time period, pitting him head-to-head with Rush Limbaugh, who has dominated those three hours for nearly 25 years. Huckabee, a Conservative Republican, plans a more friendly show. Huckabee and Cumulus executives, like John Dickey, believe listeners want an alternative to Rush. The New York Times takes a fresh look at the brewing battle, including quotes from Clear Channel's John Hogan.

(4/2/2012 6:23:13 AM)
Competition is good for business. This is good for the American listener. Too bad the only alternative to much of the conservative babble is found on the public radio stations.
(4/2/2012 5:43:07 AM)
Non-listeners want an alternative to Rush Limbaugh as well. That is because we are forced to deal with the fallout of Rush Limbaugh's misinformation and propaganda, in the political realm and in our daily lives. The man has no credibility - yet having a program on 600 radio stations allows him to cynically and routinely get away with "big lies" that many believe. And yes, i know this because i have become motivated to "take one for the public", i've listened to his program for 4 weeks straight.

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