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Radio outpaced competitors for 1990 advertising dollars And the winner is . . . radio. The broadcast medium that has been playing catch-up in recent years is now riding high, [...]

Chrysalis announced a 17 per cent jump in advertising revenues this week, along with growing listening figures at its Heart and Galaxy radio station brands. In the year to August, [...]

Emap has been issued with a new set of Audit Bureau of Circulations figures and is bracing itself for a wave of compensation claims after it was found to have [...]

Clear Channel Communications Inc., the leading U.S. radio broadcaster and concert promoter, on Wednesday reported a deep net loss for the third quarter despite impressive revenue gains. San Antonio-based Clear [...]

Who knows where it will all end, with people prepared to pay ten times total revenues? Ask David Mansfield at Capital Radio why he decided to sell the TV bit [...]

WILL IT BE THREE, FOUR OR EVEN FIVE BILLION POUNDS? However much the government finally realises from its radio frequency auction for the next round of mobile phone licences; can […]

Entercom stock declines with loss; split plans give a boost to Cox Radio Entercom Communications Corp.'s stock price fell more than 10% last week after the radio group owner announced [...]

WASHINGTON -- An unexpected windfall, estimated at $200 million, could be National Public Radio's saving grace. The nonprofit news org announced Thursday it had received the largest donation in its [...]

JACKSON -- 'The only consistency in broadcasting is that there is no consistency.' That's how Greg Waxberg, music director at Public Radio in Mississippi (PRM) sees it. 'Things can always [...]

TAK THE LAST TIME ANYONE SAW SHARAD Tak, he was trying to cut a deal for WKYS, the profitable Washington FM station that NBC had put on the block. [P] [...]

NETWORK'S HOT BUT SPOT IS NOT Talk about contrasts. The radio industry, already tough to get a handle on with its 21 networks and 8,000 local radio stations, is emerging [...]

1985 an off year for Fifth Estate companies You wouldn't know it from looking at the stock market, but 1985 was not the best year for the Fifth Estate. Close [...]

Back in the good old days, Suzy Horstman made a nice living from her sales job during a normal 40-hour work week. Now, to try to match the commission income [...]

Radio operators paying for growth binge in '80s James Walsh, president of WV Broadcasting Inc., is looking for an investor to 'share' his Schenectady radio stations. Making ends meet has [...]

AOR STATIONS POST GAINS IN DETROIT, CHICAGO In the post-war spring 1991 Birch survey, news radio eased back to 'normal' listening levels, while the urban format regained most of its [...]

Sellers of radio stations may be looking at the world through more realistically colored lenses these days. The radio station trading market has picked up pace, according to brokers and [...]

King Broadcasting: asking a king's ransom? Papers show $500 million would be a princely price When King Broadcasting Co. was put on the selling block in August, its owners said [...]

Olympia's spiral ends Olympia Broadcasting Corp.'s June 13 Chapter 11 filing comes as no surprise to radio industry insiders who maintained a death watch for months while the struggling company [...]