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DCRTV Front - Boston - Contact Us - Mailbag - Advertise - Support DCRTV - DCRTV Plus Boards: RI NYC Radio - RI Philadelphia Radio - RI LI Radio - RI NJ Radio - NYRMB Sorenson Returns To CBS-FM - 11/20 - "Big Jay" Sorenson returns to CBS Radio's classic hits WCBS-FM (101.1) for part-time duties. He'll be heard on Thanksgiving and then on weekends..... Batchelor To Be Syndicated - 11/19 - John Batchelor, does a show for NYC's WABC radio, will be syndicated nationwide. His satellite-distributed show will air from 9 PM to 1 AM on Saturdays and Sundays..... 6's Dave Roberts To Retire - 11/19 - Channel 6/WPVI weatherman Dave Roberts announced his retirement during Wednesday's 11 PM newscast. Ending a 56-year career in television and 31 years at WPVI. Roberts, 73, whose real name is David Thomas Boreanaz, joined Philadelphia's WPVI in 1978 and co-hosted "AM Philadelphia." He moved to the evening newscasts in 1983 after the skydiving death of his friend and colleague Jim O'Brien..... FUV Promotes Wardrop - 11/18 - NYC adult alternative rocker WFUV has promoted music interview producer Sarah Wardrop to acting assistant program director. Wardrop will assist in the development of programming content for broadcast and the web, including overseeing WFUV's music interview production staff..... NYC Rags In Corruption Probe - 11/18 - Investigators in NYC raided offices for some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced accusations of ties to organized crime, a law enforcement official said. Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney's office searched for paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union in circulation, production and delivery offices of the New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily News, and El Diario, said the official, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing..... Sy Syms Dies - 11/17 - Sy Syms, the clothing retailer who coined the TV ad phrase that became his company's trademark - "An educated consumer is our best customer" - died Tuesday of heart failure in NYC at age 83. More from northjersey.com..... Tom Collins Leaves KYW Radio - 11/17 - After a two-decade run doing traffic in Philadelphia and overnights on CBS all-newser KYW (1060 AM), Metro Networks reporter Tom "Hey, Bud" Collins is leaving radio for a job with PENNDOT..... Karmazin Says He'll Stay At Sirius XM - 11/17 - Sirius XM honcho Mel Karmazin denies rumors that he might leave the satcaster to manage a merged Comast-NBC Universal. In a Fox News interview yesterday, Karmazin also said that he would not accept a job as number two to Warren Buffett, and that and that no amount of money could convince him to leave Sirius XM and run another large media company..... Many Hurdles For Former 29er Stensland - 11/17 - The Philadelphia Daily News talks to former Fox 29 anchor Dawn Stensland. In the last 18 months, she lost her TV anchor job, suffered a miscarriage and watched as a sexually charged public scandal humiliated her TV anchor husband Larry Mendte and led to his firing, conviction, and house arrest..... Former 2 ND To 11 - 11/17 - WPIX/Channel 11 is on the verge of naming Bill Carey as its news director. The former WCBS/Channel 2 news director is expected to - perhaps as early as this week - get the top job at the Tribune-owned station. There, he'll fill a seat left open when Karen Scott suddenly exited the station in early September. The NY Daily News has more..... Dobbs Eyes NJ Senate Run - 11/16 - Now that Lou Dobbs has hung up his microphone on CNN, the populist New Jersey resident could be a viable candidate for the Garden State's US Senate race in 2012. More in the NY Post..... Ken Johnson To WUSL & WDAS - 11/12 - Ken Johnson becomes director of urban programming for Clear Channel's WUSL and WDAS in Philadelphia. He comes from gigs at Citadel in Dallas and at Cumulus in Atlanta..... Q102's Brooks To Toronto - 11/11 - Joey Brooks is leaving his afternoon drive, assistant program director, and music director duties at Philadelphia's contemporary hit WIOQ, Q102, to join Toronto's CHUM-FM, where he'll be afternoon drive host..... Diane Allen Fights Cancer - 11/10 - Diane Allen, a former news anchor and reporter at Channel 3/KYW and Channel 10/WCAU, disclosed Monday that she is fighting cancer. According to NewsBlues, Allen expects to undergo surgery as early as this week for an illness described as "aggressive." She gave no details and asked that her family's privacy be respected..... Maire Mason Out At CBS Radio - 11/10 - Veteran New York executive Maire Mason is out at CBS Radio. No official word from CBS, but two sources tells Tom Taylor at Radio-Info.com that it happened yesterday. Maire had held a variety of positions over many years at CBS Radio, including being the general manager at WCBS-FM (101.1), “Fresh 102.7” WWFS and then-“K-Rock” WXRK (92.3). She’d recently been a cluster sales executive..... NY Post Slumps - 11/9 - The New York Post's circulation sags. So reports the NY Times..... Trey Morgan To Z100 - 11/9 - Trey Morgan jumps from night duties at Hartford's WKCI, KC101, to do late night duties at Clear Channel contemporary hit sister WHTZ, Z100, in NYC. He replaces Joe Rosati, who heads to CC's Detroit radio cluster..... Prez Of 2 To Head CBS TV Group - 11/9 - Channel 2/WCBS President/General Manager Peter Dunn has been named president of CBS Television Stations, with oversight of the 29-station portfolio. He will report to CBS Corp. President/CEO Leslie Moonves and will retain his current title at WCBS. Current station group president/CEO Tom Kane is exiting his post. More from B&C..... Citadel Eyes Bankruptcy - 11/9 - Credit-crunched Citadel Broadcasting, which owns WABC-AM and WPLJ, inches closer to a bankruptcy filing. Radio Online has more..... Applegate & Corning To 12 - 11/6 - Former Channel 5/WNYW co-anchors Jodi Applegate and Ron Corning are to reunite on News 12 Long Island. The NY Daily News has more..... New Editor Of NY Observer - 11/6 - Kyle Pope, who has been an editor at the Wall Street Journal and Conde Nast Portfolio, is the new editor of the NY Observer..... Sirius XM Sees Light At End Of Recessionary Tunnel - 11/5 - Sirius XM Radio announced its 2009 third quarter fiscal results today, with the satcaster reporting its fourth straight quarter of "positive pro forma adjusted income from operations." The firm ended the quarter with 18.5 million subscribers, adding just over 102,000 since Q2 2009, but still down two percent from a year ago. FMQB has more..... CBS Sees Profit Despite Sluggish Ad Market - 11/5 - CBS says that it has moved to a third-quarter profit even as an impairment charge and decreased advertising revenue cut into the bottom line. Television revenue rose to $2.27 billion from $2.08 billion. Radio revenue declined to $319 million from $392 million. MarketWatch has more..... WNYG Relays WNSW - 11/5 - Contemporary Christian WNYG in Babylon NY is now carrying the ethnic and brokered programs from its Multicultural sister station, WNSW in Newark NJ..... Trish Bergin To Islip Council - 11/5 - Trish Bergin, a former reporter at Channel 2/WCBS and Cablevision's News 12 Long Island, has won a seat on the Islip town council..... LTW & BEB Top PPMs - 11/4 - WLTW tops the October Portable People Meter radio ratings for NYC and WBEB tops Philly..... Sirius XM Gets In Holiday Spirit - 11/4 - Sirius XM announces its holiday music line-up. Holly (Sirius-3, XM-23) will feature contemporary holiday tunes from 11/16 to 12/31. Holiday Traditions (Sirius-4, XM-4) will feature traditional holiday recordings from the 1940s through the 1960s from 11/16 to 12/25. Holiday Pops (Sirius-79, XM-77) will feature classical Christmas carols from 12/7 to 12/25. Country Christmas (Sirius-62, XM-10) will run from 12/7 to 12/25. And Radio Hanukkah (Sirius-76 and XM-28) will run from 12/7 to 12/19..... Will CSN Merge With NBC Sports? - 11/4 - With all the talk that area cable TV giant Comcast is buying NBC, with a deal to be announced any day now, there come rumblings that Comcast could consolidate its regional sports networks with the sports departments of local NBC-owned TV stations. And Jim Williams wonders how this could impact Philadelphia-based Comcast SportsNet and NBC-owned Channel 4/WNBC and Channel 10/WCAU. This is "very much in the talking stages at this point, but (we're in) in a marketplace where TV stations are cutting back on sports or doing away with sports departments." More at washingtonexaminer.com..... WSJ To Start Local NYC Bureau - 11/3 - The Wall Street Journal is starting a local news desk in NYC, to be staffed by around a dozen reporters, according to the NY Times..... Pre-News Cocktail For Simmons - 11/3 - Channel 4/WNBC news anchor Sue Simmons admits that she would occasionally have a cocktail before doing her newscasts. More from the NY Observer..... Charlamagne Leaves WPHI - 11/2 - After six months, Charlamagne is out as the morning man on Radio One's urban WPHI (100.3 FM), "The Beat" in Philadelphia, as the station flips to a more music-intensive morning show..... LI's Party 105.3 To Air On 87.7 - 11/2 - Radio-Info.com tells us Mega Media’s deal with low power Channel 6 TV station WNYZ-TV has ended, and now Long Island-based JVC is taking over the 87.7 frequency via lease. JVC’s Hamptons-based “Party 105.3” WPTY, Calverton-Roanoke, NY will begin simulcasting on 87.7 on Monday. That restores a dance format to the Big Apple. It’s also a return to the New York airwaves for Vic Latino, who is a principal of JVC, where he’s known as Victor Canales. Vic once jocked at Clear Channel’s rhythmic WKTU (103.5). The Hamptons station now known as WPTY (105.3) just changed its call letters from WDRE..... WFAN To Florida - 11/2 - CBS Radio puts NYC sports talker WFAN on the digital HD3 channels of three stations it owns in Florida, Orlando's WOCL, Tampa's WLLD, and West Palm Beach's WEAT. Also, CBS puts new Boston sports talker WBZ-FM on the HD3 of Hartford's WTIC..... McLaughlin Leaves FUV For CC - 11/2 - Rich McLaughlin, content director at Fordham University's WFUV, jumps to Clear Channek to be program director of its NYC digital services. McLaughlin previously programmed Sirius's Alt Nation channel..... Transmitter Upgrade For FUV - 11/2 - FMQB tells us that NYC non-comm adult alternative rock WFUV will be upgrading its main antenna over the next several weeks, making its signal stronger in Manhattan and parts of New Jersey. The work will knock them off the air from 8 AM to 4:00 PM on weekdays from 11/15 through 11/18. WFUV will resume normal broadcasting from 4 PM to 8 AM during these weekdays, while regular weekend programming will continue uninterrupted..... NYC's Pulse Stops - 10/30 - Radio-Info.com tells us that after weeks of rumors and months of turmoil for Mega Media's dance-oriented Pulse 87, the NYC station officially announced on air that it would stop broadcasting as of 5 PM Friday. In recent weeks, the station's web stream has gone on and off. Back in August, Mega Media and its Echo Broadcasting Group subsidiary filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Mega then staged a one-day fundraiser from listeners, and followed that up with the sale of nearly $70,000 in new debt. But it was not enough to keep the station going. In today's announcement, Mega Media CEO Alex Shvarts thanked the station's DJs, behind the scenes people, advertisers, and fans, and Tony Santiago of the NY Dance Music Coalition..... Cuts Coming To Time - 10/30 - Signaling that worse times are ahead for magazines, Time is expected to announce next week that it will cut $100 million from costs, including another big round of layoffs. Possibly more than 500 jobs or about 6 percent of its workforce. More at nytimes.com..... Entercom Liable In Sacramento Radio Death - 10/29 - Philadelphia-based Entercom has been found negligent in the January 2007 water intoxication death of 28-year-old mother of three during a contest at KDND in Sacramento. The jury found that KDND's talent and management acted negligently in the $16.57 million case..... New Calls For LI's 105.3 - 10/29 - Long Island's Party 105 (105.3 FM) has changed call letters from WDRE to WPTY..... New AM Team For WKJY - 10/29 - Barnstable Broadcasting's WKJY (98.3 FM) on Long Island brings back former hosts Steve Harper and Maria Garcia for mornings, starting Monday, 11/2..... NuMetal To 92.3's HD2 - 10/29 - CBS Radio's WXRK (92.3 FM) is adding NuMetal to its HD2..... Last Show For McCaffrey - 10/29 - After more than 30 years on Poughkeepsie's WKIP (1450 AM), the "Solid Gold Juke Box" with Rick McCaffrey will spin its last show on Saturday, 10/31..... Former 5er Pleads Guilty In Horse Collision - 10/29 - A police detective-turned-TV news reporter has admitted driving impaired in a collision with a police horse in Manhattan. Former Channel 5/WNYWer Michael Sheehan pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving while impaired by alcohol, a traffic infraction. His penalties: a $500 fine, five days of community service and a 90-day driver’s license suspension. The NY Post has more..... NYC's Pulse Resumes - 10/28 - From Radio-Online.com: Financially-troubled Mega Media Group's rhythmic contemporary WNYZ (Pulse 87)/NYC is back on the air after going dark Sunday night. The station told listeners that technical issues kept the station off the air. Pulse did manage to stream online during its "STL" outage. Mega filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August. According to court papers, Mega owes creditors more than $3.5 million. But that's not all, frequency owner Island Broadcasting, has reportedly put the signal up for sale with a price tag of $15 million. Even so, the station pulled 831,000 last month according to Arbitron's PPM..... Kidd Chris To Oregon - 10/28 - Former WYSP morning man Kidd Chris moves to Portland, Oregon, to do the morning show at revamped rocker KUFO..... Morrison From 4 To 2 - 10/28 - Former Channel 4/WNBCer Rob Morrison now anchors weekends at Channel 2/WCBS..... WFAN & WIP Team Up For World Series - 10/27 - From FMQB: Following up on the success of their original New York Giants versus Philadelphia Eagles NFC Playoff joint simulcast in January, CBS sports radio outlets WFAN/New York and WIP/Philadelphia are at it again. With the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies set to battle for the 2009 World Series, beginning this Wednesday, October 28 at Yankee Stadium, the two stations will again team up to host an energetic live simulcast on both stations and their respective streams, wfan.com and 610wip.com. The event will take place from 10 AM to 1 PM to help get fans of both teams psyched for the game. Each station will present the case for why its team will win, which will help get fans pumped up and further fuel the massive rivalry between the two teams and cities. Team WFAN will be represented by Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts, while WIP will be represented by Anthony Gargano and Glen Macnow, along with special guests..... NYT Circ Down 7% - 10/26 - E&P is just out with the latest circulation numbers for newspapers around the country - and it ain't pretty. The New York Times saw a plunge of about 7 percent. The New York Daily News was down 14 percent, while the New York Post plunged a staggering 19 percent..... Soupy Sales Dies - 10/23 - Kiddie show TV legend and comic Soupy Sales has died at age 83 of cancer. He did his show from NYC's Channel 5/WNEW, then a Metromedia station. More in the LA Times..... AM Changes At 11 - 10/23 - Channel 11/WPIX is giving its morning news show a makeover. The NY Daily News has the details..... NY Times Losses Continue - 10/22 - The New York Times Company reported a $35.6 million loss for the third quarter on Thursday, as newspaper advertising revenue fell nearly 30 percent, but it managed to beat expectations based on continued deep cost-cutting and newspaper price increases. The Times has more..... Dawn Stensland Leaves 29 - 10/22 - Philadelphia news anchor Dawn Stensland is leaving Fox-owned Channel 29/WTXF. "Fox is not renewing my contract," Stensland Tweeted. "I wanted you to hear that directly from me." She will be replaced at 10 PM by Kerri-Lee Halkett..... Newsday To Charge For Website - 10/22 - Starting next week, those who aren't customers of Cablevision's Optimum Online or the print edition Newsday will have to pay to get full access to Newsday.com. $5 a week..... FCC Fines Brooklyn Pirate - 10/22 - The FCC has hit two alleged Brooklyn pirate radio station operators with a $10,000 fine for running an unlicensed station at 90.5 FM. According to All Access, an antenna was observed by FCC agents atop the pair's apartment building, but upon a subsequent visit, the equipment had been removed. The duo claimed claimed that someone other than themselves lived in the apartment in question..... 97.5 Becomes WPEN - 10/21 - Greater Media sports outlet WNUW (97.5 FM) in Philadelphia switches call letters to WPEN-FM to go along with sports sister WPEN-AM (950)..... Chris Walus To CC Delaware - 10/21 - Chris Walus has been named market manager for Clear Channel's Wilmington and Dover radio clusters in Delaware. He's had worked at Delmarva Broadcasting's WDEL and WSTW in Wilmington..... Dhila Leaves YSP - 10/20 - CBS classic rocker WYSP (94.1 FM) cuts Shila from the Danny Bonaduce morning show..... NY Times To Cut 100 - 10/19 - The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs, about 8 percent of the total, by year's end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily..... Joe Rosati To Detroit - 10/16 - Joe Rosati, late night host at Z100, WHTZ, jumps to Clear Channel's sister contemporary hit outlet in Detroit, WKQI, to do an airshift and imaging..... 97.5 Wants Phillies - 10/16 - Greater Media, which just started a Philadelphia sports talker on 97.5 FM, "The Fanatic," says it plans to challenge CBS Radio for the rights to the Phillies baseball club when its current contract to be carried on talker WPHT, 1210 AM, expires at the end of the 2010 season. The new station is also on the prowl for more local sports rights..... New Identity For NYC's 96.3 - 10/15 - Radio-Info.com tells us that "X96.3 WXNY" is the new identity for Univision's former "La Kalle," Spanish contemporary WCAA. It's been a week since Univision acquired the 96.3 frequency from the New York Times and moved La Kalle there from the lesser-signal 105.9. It's a change in identity, but not a format flip for the old WCAA..... Ho Ho Ho For WOGL's HD2 - 10/15 - CBS's classic hits WOGL (98.1 FM) in Philadelphia launches "Christmas Classic"�its digital HD2 channel and via its website and the websites of its CBS radio sisters in town. WOGL Program Director Anne Gress says the XMAS tunes will run through 12/31..... NY Times Won't Sell Globe - 10/14 - The New York Times Company said it has decided not to sell the Boston Globe, saying the paper’s financial performance had “significantly improved” in recent months. The company had been exploring a sale of New England’s largest newspaper and had received two bids to buy the lobe and the Worcester Telegram And Gazette, which it also owns. The Times Company said it is continuing to assess "strategic alternatives" for the Worcester paper. The Boston Globe has more..... Bloomberg Nabs BizWeek - 10/14 - Bloomberg, the global financial data and news empire created by NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is the winning bidder for BusinessWeek. More at businessweek.com..... Imus Boosts FBN - 10/14 - Don Imus gave the Fox Business Network the boost it wanted in his first week on the air. The Imus show, a simulcast of the radio program heard on WABC (770 AM), averaged 148,000 viewers a day for the first week, which began on 10/5. That put Fox Business a few thousand viewers ahead of CNBC for the first time since FBN went on the air two years ago. The NY Daily News has more..... Star-Ledger Cuts - 10/13 - More cuts at the Newark Star-Ledger. Up to 50 more could be let go. The NY Times has more..... Mark Olds Dies - 10/13 - Mark Olds died on 10/8 after suffering a stroke. He was 88. Olds retired in 1982 after a career that included holding the general manager positions at NYC's WWRL and the old WRVR..... Gospel WEHA Sold - 10/13 - Radio-Info.com tells us that non-commercial WEHA (88.7 FM) in Port Republic NJ sells for $375,000, and the buyer is local Christian group Spread The Gospel. The seller is WXXY Broadcasting of Delaware. There’s an FM translator along for the ride - W260BW, Egg Harbor NJ, broadcasting at 99.9 FM. WEHA does black gospel, using the phrase “Spreading the gospel one song at a time"..... DCRTV's On Twitter & Facebook - 10/11 - Get local radio and TV news, gossip, and commentary the instant it fires on DCRTV Dave's brain synapses at twitter.com/dcrtv. Also, check us out at facebook.com/dcrtv..... Berman To Be Heard On WOR - 10/10 - Veteran Channel 4/WNBC sports reporter Len Berman joins WOR radio's John Gambling to provide sports updates on Mondays and Fridays..... More: 97.5 Becomes Philly's "Fanatic" - 10/10 - From Radio-Info.com: Greater Media may have moved up the simulcast of WPEN (950) and WNUW (97.5), because of the rampant speculation online, at Radio-Info and elsewhere. The market’s first FM sports station hit the air at 5pm Friday (Oct. 9). It’s not just a simulcast of sports WPEN-AM, but a fresh imaging package as “The Fanatic.” That’s a play on the famed Philadelphia Phillies mascot, just as the defending World Series champs are in post-season play. Here’s the lineup: 6-10 AM, ESPN’s Mike and Mike. 10 AM-noon, to be announced, with Dan Schwartzman and Steven A. Smith as “special guest hosts” for now. Noon-2 PM, Harry Mays and Vai Sikahema. 2-7 PM, Mike Missanelli. Then a variety of shows in the evening including “The Linebackers Show From Chickie’s And Pete’s” sports bar on Tuesdays, and Sal Paolantonio from Connie Mac’s, Thursdays. “The Fanatic” is also using former Philadelphian Tony Bruno’s “Into The Night” from the Content Factory from 10 PM-1 AM. Then “All Night With Jason Smith”, 1-5 AM. The target is CBS Radio’s WIP (610), which has been in the format for most of 20 years - which has been beating Great Media rocker WMMR (93.3) with 25-54 men in the recent Arbitron PPMs. The new simulcast ends the days of WNUW, Burlington, NJ (97.5) playing music – most recently as an AC..... Local Group To Get WLIU - 10/9 - Newsday reports that Long Island University has signed a letter of intent with Peconic Public Broadcasting to sell them the license for WLIU in Southampton. The grassroots group was fighting to save WLIU by creating its own not-for-profit entity. LIU says it is committed to keeping public radio on the East End and that the group offered the most money. The group offered a package worth $2.7 million, half in cash, a promise to pick up about $400,000 in operating costs, and another promise to keep the college radio station at CW Post going for another year, which they say is worth $1 million, sources say..... Sports Comes To Philly's 97.5 - 10/9 - Radio-Info.com is reporting "strong rumors" pointing stronger competition for CBS Radio’s sports powerhouse WIP-AM (610). Greater Media-owned WPEN-AM (950) may join the growing national ranks of sports stations on the FM dial, moving into the dial position currently occupied by WNUW-FM (97.5), which segued from smooth jazz as WJJZ-FM to adult contemporary to hot adult contemporary, all within the span of 13 months. In the most recent Arbitron PPM ratings in Philadelphia, while WIP was in the top-10 rated stations, both WNUW and WPEN each scored a 1.4, toward the bottom of the market's ratings. More: A DCRTVer tells us that the announcement putting WPEN on 97.5 was made Friday afternoon, with the flip taking place at 5 PM. ESPN's Mike and Mike will do mornings..... Studio Move For WFAN - 10/9 - CBS sports talker WFAN-AM (660) is completing its move from Astoria in Queens to their new studios in Lower Manhattan. The new studio debuts at 10 AM Saturday..... LTW 1st Again - 10/7 - Adult contemporary WLTW tops the NYC radio heap. Classic hits WCBS-FM takes 2nd, classic rock WAXQ 3rd, with all-news WCBS-AM and contemporary hit WHTZ tied for 4th. All the numbers are at Radio-Info.com. In Philadelphia, WBEB and KYW top the ratings. Those numbers are also at Radio-Info.com..... Banks Don't Like CC's Debt - 10/7 - The NY Times is reporting that several big banks are reportedly not feeling the love for Clear Channel after being forced to uphold lending commitments in the buyout of the radio and billboard giant last year. Clear Channel's private equity owners have gone hat in hand to some big banks to help them keep Clear Channel from defaulting on its loans. However, the banks are have rejected the requests for help, which could mean Clear Channel could default by year-end or early next year..... ABC News Radio Makes Cuts - 10/6 - First on DCRTV. We tipped you at noon Tuesday and now we hear more. About 20 staffers at ABC News Radio in DC and NYC were given layoff notices today. Mainly behind-the-scenes employees, including news writers and engineering staff. Some management positions have also been eliminated. On the outs: Robert Garcia and Peter Salinger. More: We're told that among those cut is 13-year ABC radio correspondent Pam Coulter, who worked many years at CBS and WTOP, and nearly all tape editors and desk editors. "There is a skeleton staff now in DC," a source tells DCRTV. "Rumor is it is because of the likely implosion of Citadel, which contractually owes money to ABC to continue carrying its product after they bought the ABC radio stations. If Citadel goes bankrupt, the contract is void and the money stops flowing to ABC"..... Rob Morrison To 2 - 10/6 - Rob Morrison, former anchor of the early-morning "Today In New York" on Channel 4/WNBC, has been hired to co-anchor weekends at Channel 2/WCBS and report three days a week..... John Rivaa Dies - 10/5 - John "Mr. Magic" Rivaa died of a heart attack on 10/2 at age 53. He hosted "Rap Attack" on NYC's WBLS in the 1980s..... Easu Davis To XRK - 10/5 - Esau Davis joins CBS's 92.3 Now, WXRK, for weekend shifts. He comes from WQBT in Savannah..... Don Imus Debuts On Fox Biz - 10/5 - Howard Kurtz has a lengthy piece on Don Imus's TV debut this morning on the Fox Business Network. MSNBC simulcast his radio show for 11 years until the spring of 2007, when the channel, and CBS Radio, fired Imus over racially insulting remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team. He's still heard on NYC talker WABC radio. More in the DC Post. Also, Kurtz will host a Q&A on Imus at noon Monday at washingtonpost.com..... WNYH Back To Korean - 10/5 - Radio-Info.com tells us that Long Island AMer WNYH (740) in Huntington has dropped oldies and gone back to Korean-language programming. It used to do Korean when K Communications bought then-WGSM in 2001..... Jim Nettleton Dies - 10/4 - KYW is reporting that cancer has claimed the life of longtime Philadelphia radio personality Jim Nettleton (right) at the age of 69. He was one of the original "Boss Jocks" of "Famous 56" WFIL in the 1960s. He also worked in Hartford, New York, and Tampa..... Imus Rants On Rather & Letterman - 10/2 - WABC radio personality Don Imus calls Dan Rather "crazy" and David Letterman "a creep." Imus starts his Fox Business Network morning simulcast on Monday. More at Mediaite..... New GSM At CBS-FM - 10/2 - CBS Radio names Chad Lopez as general sales manager of classic hits WCBS-FM in NYC. He jumps from his GSM gig at all-newser WCBS-AM. Cathy Murphy will become GSM for the latter..... Eagles Sue WZXL - 10/2 - The Philadelphia Daily News reports that the Philadelphia Eagles' lawyers are busy throwing penalty flags at a South Jersey radio station. In a 124-page lawsuit filed in Camden federal court recently, lawyers for the Eagles contend that they've warned a Pleasantville, Atlantic County-based communications company about violating the team's trademarks and licensing agreements on its stations in the past, and that now they're coming with a full legal blitz. In a 2004 e-mail included in the complaint, Equity Communications President Gary Fisher wrote that he fully understood that Eagles logos and unofficial partnerships were "off-limits" and apologized for the infractions to 94.1 WYSP, the Eagles' official radio station in the area. According to the lawsuit, however, Equity continues to give away tickets on its rock station, 100.7 WZXL, and is accused of using team logos to draw business..... 2 Join 7 - 10/2 - Some additions to Channel 7/WABC. Rob Powers, sports director of Toldeo's WTVG-TV, becomes weekend sports anchor at WABC. And, Darla Miles, a reporter and anchor at Dallas/Fort Worth's WFAA-TV, becomes a general assignment reporter for WABC..... Comcast Stock Sinks After Denying NBC Rumor - 10/1 - Area cable TV giant Comcast is denying reports that it is close to a deal to buy NBC Universal for $35 billion, speculation that sent its stock down more than 7 percent in early trading Thursday. Multichannel News has more..... Jim Nettleton "Gravely Ill" - 10/1 - Radio-Info.com tells us that Jim Nettleton is gravely ill, according to several folks associated with Philadelphia radio. He's dealing with lung cancer, and the terrific Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers chapter traces his "top 40" career from WFIL to WABC, then to Toronto's CHUM, back to Philadelphia - and a whole raft of voiceover work for commercials and broadcasting station clients. He was also an active syndicator and program producer, and very creative as a programmer with early automation..... Lange Pleads Guilty - 10/1 - Howard Stern's Sirius XM sidekick Artie Lange has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of a habit-producing drug in a minor traffic accident, reports AP. The accident occurred in July in Toms River NJ. Lange entered his plea Wednesday and had his drivers license suspended for seven months..... More: QXR Changes - 10/1 - The NY Times has more news about all the changes at classical WQXR when it moves from 96.3 to 105.9 on 10/8..... Peconic Bids For WLIU - 9/30 - Locally-based Peconic Public Broadcasting has submitted a bid of more than $2 million for non-commercial WLIU in Southhampton, Long Island. The bid, with $1.3 million in cash and $1 million in support of Long Island University's WCWP in Brookville plus about $400,000 in costs of operation before closing, is one of at least three submitted for the station, which LIU has put up for sale..... Court Dismisses Rather Suit - 9/29 - A New York appeals court Tuesday dealt a bitter blow to former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather when it ruled unanimously to dismiss his $70 million lawsuit against his former network for what he characterized as an effort by his bosses to run him off the job by denying him meaningful assignments after he stepped down from the anchor desk. More at baltimoresun.com..... Eagle To Do WPEN Show - 9/29 - Philadelphia's sports talk WPEN (950 AM) adds Philadelphia Eagle DeSean Jackson to do a bi-weekly Monday show..... WW1 Unveils Cuts, Furloughs - 9/29 - DCRTV tipped you last week. And now we hear that Westwood One, which operates Metro Traffic, is unveiling more "cost saving" measures. Pay cuts that amount to five days' pay in the fourth quarter, on top of recent 5 percent salary cuts, to go with five furlough days. Employees are being told that every other week, from 10/12 to 12/20, their pay will be reduced by one day's pay. Basically, 10 days pay lost the rest of the year. For all full-timers. Those unpaid furlough days will include Thanksgiving and the day after. Part-timers aren't affected by today's plan. There's more at rbr.com..... FCC Yanks WIP Fine - 9/28 - The FCC has entered into a consent decree with CBS sports talk WIP in Philadelphia, cancelling a $4000 fine issued to the outlet after it "failed to announce the material terms" of its annual Wing Bowl. WIP also allegedly failed "to conduct the contest in accordance with its material terms." Radio-Online.com has more..... AirAm Continues WWRL Deal - 9/28 - Air America renews its deal with NYC flagship WWRL (1600 AM) and its owner, Access 1. For the continued carriage of Rachel Maddow, Montel Williams, and Ron Reagan..... "Evangelical" Groups Bid For WLIU - 9/28 - On eastern Long Island, at least four bids are now in for public radio outlet WLIU in Southampton (88.3 FM), and Newsday says "three were connected with evangelical broadcasters"..... William Safire Dies - 9/27 - William Safire, 79, conservative political columnist and word maven, died today at a hospice in Rockville MD, reportedly of pancreatic cancer. Safire, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1978, had been writing the New York Times' "On Language" column since 1979. The column examined the origins of words and phrases and their proper usage. Before joining the Times, Safire worked as a speechwriter at the Nixon White House in 1968. He was credited with coining the phrases "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "hysterical hypochondriacs of history" that Vice President Spiro Agnew used to describe the US media. More at washingtonpost.com..... 102.7 Adds "Acoustic Sunrise" - 9/25 - CBS Radio expands Dan O'Brien's "Acoustic Sunrise" from hot adult contemporary WBMX in Boston to four additional markets, including NYC's DC's 102.7 Fresh FM, WWFS. It'll air Sunday mornings..... Buyouts At NYT - 9/25 - Romemesko tells us that the New York Times has agreed to voluntary buyouts..... Doug McIntyre Joins WABC - 9/24 - Doug McIntyre jumps from KABC radio in LA to WABC radio in NYC. Where he'll do the 5 AM hour, leading to the Don Imus show. Both stations are owned by Citadel..... John Atwater Leaving 29 - 9/23 - NewsBlues tells us that John Atwater, weekend news anchor Philadelphia's Channel 29/WTXF since 2005, is leaving the station to be "closer to family" in Boston. No word on his TV plans..... Jade McCarthy To NESN - 9/23 - Jade McCarthy, who does news and sports fill-in work for Philadelphia's Channel 10/WCAU, is getting married this weekend and moving to Boston, where she'll join New England Sports Network in January..... Jim & Kim Replace Dave & Danni At Fresh - 9/22 - Jim and Kim from Barnstable's adult contemporary WKJY, 98.3 FM, on Long Island are the new morning team at CBS's like formatted Fresh 102.7, WWFS, in NYC. They replace Dave and Danni. Prior to working at WKJY, Jim Douglas was heard on WHN and at the old Mix 105 in NYC. Kim Berk once worked at LI's WLIR..... Steve Friedman Dies - 9/22 - Steve Friedman, who'd done movie reviews for Philadelphia talker WPHT and other area stations, has died of kidney disease at home on 9/20 at age 62..... Mays Leaves Hughley's RKS Show - 9/21 - Raquiyah Mays gets dropped as co-host from the Kiss-FM, WRKS, DL Hughley morning show..... Stanley Bardot Dies - 9/21 - Stanley Barbot, a leading voice in NYC's Haitian community, and the host of WLIB (1190 AM) "Moment Creole" show, has died of colon cancer in his Queens home. He was 47..... Fresh 102.7 Axes Morning Team - 9/21 - Dave & Danni are out after just five months together as the morning team at NYC's Fresh 102.7, WWFS. Dave Packer tells Radio-Info.com that "after the show [Friday], we were both brought into the office and they told us they have other plans for mornings - they have another morning show in mind." Danni came to Fresh from CBS sister WXRK, as it changed from a rocker to contemporary hits..... Anastos Apologizes For F-Bomb - 9/18 - B&C tells us that Channel 5/WNYW anchor Ernie Anastos apologized for the peculiar and profane-bit of anchor banter he uttered on the air Wednesday night. Anastos, who co-anchors the 10 p.m. news, echoed old Perdue ads when he told meteorologist Nick Gregory, "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast." Anastos then told Gregory to "keep f***ing that chicken." Last night at 10:37 PM, Anastos said he "misspoke" during Wednesday's 10 PM news. "I apologize for my remarks to anyone who may have been offended," he said. His mea culpa came out of Gregory's weather forecast, just as the fateful chicken quip did the night before. WNYW, a Fox O&O, chastised the veteran anchor yesterday in a statement. "We are disappointed with Ernie's comment on the air last night," said VP/General Manager Lew Leone. Fox management has not indicated that Anastos will be punished or fired..... Citadel In Deal To Finance Debt - 9/18 - Citadel Broadcasting offered a deal to exchange a major part of its debt for equity to senior lenders owed $2 billion, including JPMorgan, Chase, GE Capital, and ING. On Wednesday, Citadel faced a deadline to make a $2 million interest payment, but the status remained unclear. Discussions have slowed in recent days in part as some lenders have been caught off-guard by Federal Communications Commission rules intended to limit concentrated holdings of media firms. More from Reuters. Locally, Citadel owns WPLJ and WABC radio..... 5's Anastos Drops "F-Bomb" - 9/17 - From NewsBlues: Legendary New York anchor Ernie Anastos briefly went insane last night, dropping the live "F-bomb" on Channel 5/WNYW. During some playful cross talk with weather guesser Nick Gregory, Anastos complimented him by saying, "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast, Nick." Looking confused, Gregory replied, "I guess that's me." Without missing a beat, Anastos added, "Keep fucking that chicken," a completely bewildering phrase that made co-anchor Dari Alexander's eyes bug out like a cartoon character. Video at YouTube..... "The Pit" For MMR - 9/17 - Philadelphia rocker WMMR (93.1 FM) rebrands Matt Cord's night show as "The Pit," with 52-minute, commercial-free music marathons, greater listener interaction, and a mix of 1990s and current music..... 770's Bruce Anderson Retires - 9/16 - After a five-decade career, the last 25 years on NYC's WABC-AM, newsman Bruce Anderson hangs up his headphones after his Thursday afternoon newscast..... Fred Sherman Dies - 9/14 - Longtime KYW radio financial commentator Fred Sherman died on 9/12. He was 86 and pass away from complications he suffered in a traffic ccident several weeks ago. Sherman was let go from all-news KYW in January..... WLIU Sale Protested - 9/14 - Hamptons.com reports about protest against the upcoming sale of SUNY Stony Brook's WLIU (88.3 FM) in Southampton. A local group is attempting to raise enough money to buy the fincially strapped non-comm and operate it. Bids on the station are due later this month..... WQXR-WCAA Flip Set For October 8 - 9/11 - From All Access: With the FCC's approval of the three-way deal that will result in a frequency swap for classical WQXR and tropical WCAA (La Kalle), the date for the big switch is now set for 10/8. Univision is buying the 96.3 FM facility of WQXR from the New York Times and will move the WCAA format from 105.9 FM on that day. A the same time, noncommercial WQXR will take over the 105.9 frequency and will install the calls and classical format of WQXR there at 8 PM with a live broadcast from Carnegie Hall, simulcast on WNYC-FM, which will be operate the new WQXR..... Suit Against O&A's Norton Settled - 9/11 - A lawyer and "anti-feminist" who had lost a bid to get a court to declare "ladies' nights" at bars as unlawful discrimination has settled his suit against Opie and Anthony sidekick and comic Jim Norton for defamation after the lawyer appeared on the XM Satellite Radio edition of the show. The NY Post has more..... Reese To Co-Host Afternoons On WIP - 9/11 - Ike Reese, evening host at WIP and former Philadelphia Eagle, becomes afternoon co-host with Howard Eskin on the CBS sports talker. Comcast SportsNet's Rob Ellis takes over Reese's evening show on Philadelphia's 610 AM..... Bob Grant Back To 770 - 9/10 - Bob Grant (right) returns to the NYC airwaves. He's making his third go-round at talker WABC, 770 AM, where he will do Sunday afternoons from noon to 2..... WLTW Widens Lead - 9/10 - NYC's "Lite" grows brighter. Clear Channel soft AC “Lite 106.7” WLTW has improved 6.2 to 6.5 to a 7.1, with age 6+ AQH shares in Arbitron. That extends its lead over #2 WCBS-FM, though the classic hits station is also on an upward curve, moving 5.2 to 5.5 to 5.7. In the CHR battle, Clear Channel’s “Z100” WHTZ is tied for fourth at a 4.6 share, while CBS Radio’s “92.3 Now” WXRK has grown 1.8 to 2.1 to 2.3. The highest-ranking urban station is Clear Channel’s “Power 105.1” WWPR, flat at a 3.3. Commercial-classical WQXR – about to be relocated from 96.3 to 105.9 and run as a non-commercial station – has a 1.7, tied with Emmis' “Rock Alternative” WRXP. Adult contemporary WBEB takes the top spot in Philadelphia, with oldies WOGL second, and newser KYW third. More from Radio-Info.com..... NYT Reporter Freed In Afghanistan - 9/9 - For the second time this year, a New York Times journalist is now free from captivity in Afghanistan. Stephen Farrell was rescued in commando raid earlier today, which killed a British soldier and the reporter's interpreter, Sultan Munadi. More at politico.com..... Bonnie Bernstein To WEPN - 9/8 - ESPN's Bonnie Bernstein joins NYC's ESPN Radio sports talker WEPN (AM 1050) as a part of the Michael Kay afternoon show..... Changes At WCCC - 9/8 - Hartford rocker WCCC-FM (106.9) moves afternoon driver and Program Director Mike Picozzi to mornings. Afternoon drive co-host Klonk will now do afternoons solo..... Mo' Bounce To Z100 - 9/8 - Mo' Bounce jumps to Clear Channel's contemporary hit WHTZ, Z100, for the 6 PM to 10 PM shift. He comes from Houston's KKHH..... Confirmed: Imus To FBN - 9/3 - We've hinted many times in the past month. Now it's now official. Don Imus (right) is moving the TV simulcast of his WABC radio-based morning radio show from the rural RFD network to the more urbane Fox Business Network. Starting on 10/5, from 6 AM to 9 AM. Fox says its biz correspondents will appear on the show, reporting on breaking financial news as well as pre-market action..... New VP For 5 & 9 - 9/3 - Nick Gardner will replace Patrick Paolini as vice president and director of sales for Fox's Channel 5/WNYW and Channel 9/WWOR..... Gibson To Give Up Evening News Gig - 9/2 - Charlie Gibson announces that he will leave "ABC World News" at the end of the year. Dianne Sawyer will take over the reins of the half-hour evening newscast in January. "With Sawyer's new role, two of the three major network's evening news broadcasts will now be anchored by females, a first in television history," according to a statement at abcnews.com. The Politico has more..... Booster For FUV - 9/4 - FMQB tells us that adult alternative WFUV in NYC has received FCC approval to mount a booster antenna on West 31st Street in Manhattan. With a grant from the Corporation For Public Broadcasting and another grant in negotiations, the campaign is well on its way. Additionally, FJC, a foundation of donor-advised funds, has offered a challenge grant of $25,000 if the station's listeners will contribute the remaining $75,000. Since WFUV's original 90.7 FM signal, coming from the Bronx, gets blocked by Manhattan skyscrapers, an additional transmitter would "boost" the signal and bring it to over a million new listeners in pockets of NYC..... LIRB Moves - 9/2 - Long Island Radio Broadcasting, which owns WEHM-FM (92.9/96.9), WBAZ-FM (102.5), WBEA-FM (101.7), and WEHN-FM (96.9), is moving from Amagansett to a showcase studio in the Citarella Shopping Center in Water Mill, Radio-Info.com tells us..... Cred Crunch May Force Citadel To Sell - 9/2 - Today's Wall Street Journal reports more rumblings that Citadel is facing a severe credit crunch, lending more creedence to the rumblings that the radio firm may sell its radio stations, including WABC-AM and WPLJ..... Judge Tosses Star Suit - 9/2 - A judge has tossed out the federal lawsuit DJ Star filed after Power 105 fired him for making crude comments about a rival's 4-year-old daughter three years ago. Manhattan Federal Judge Peter Leisure ruled that Clear Channel "did not breach the employment agreement" when it took him off the air. More from the NY Daily News..... Karen Scott Out As 11's ND - 9/1 - Karen Scott has resigned as news director of Tribune's Channel 11/WPIX. She's been with the station 16 years and assumed the job of ND in 1999. The NY Daily News has more..... Ken Dyball Dies - 9/1 - Ken Dyball, a graphics designer at C-SPAN, died on 8/27 after a long illness. He'd been with the DC-based cablecaster since 1997, after stints at CNN, ABC, and NYC TVers WCBS and WPIX..... Jay Lamond Leaves WPEN - 9/1 - Jay Lamont will do his last weekend show for Greater Media's Philadelphia sports talker WPEN (950 AM)on 9/6. He's hosted "All About Real Estate" for 31 years..... WINS Vet Tuck Stadler Dies - 8/31 - DCRTV hears that former NYC all-news radio WINS anchor and reporter Tuck Stadler died on on 7/10 at age 87 of complications from lymphoma in Silver Spring MD. His death came only one day before that of his former WINS colleague Brad Sherman. "I vividly remember Stadler's voice, anchoring in the overnight hours, tape loop and all. One of those proverbial 'voices I grew up with,'" a colleague tells DCRTV. More in the Riverdale Press..... Trib Execs Could Survive B'ruptcy - 8/31 - The Tribune Company could well emerge from bankruptcy this fall with much of its current top management intact, according to people briefed on restructuring plans, but it remains unclear whether that might include the top dog himself, Samuel Zell, the chairman and chief executive who took the company private. More from the NY Times. Tribune owns Channel 11/WPIX and Channel 17/WPHL..... Newsday Rejects Verizon Ads - 8/31 - Newsday has said no to ads for Verizon's FIOS internet and cable service, which competes with the paper's owner, Cablevision. Earlier this month, Newsday rejected an ad from the Tennis Channel that had criticized Cablevision for not carrying the channel. The NY Times has more..... Comcast Can Grow Bigger - 8/29 - Philadelphia-based Comcast, the nation's largest cable television provider, can grow bigger if it wants to, after a federal court decision on Friday that tossed out a rule preventing cable companies from controlling more than 30 percent of the US market. More in the Washington Post..... 50 Cut At Journal News - 8/28 - The entire business news staff at the Journal News in the NYC suburb of Westchester County is gone this week in the round of 50 cutbacks at the paper, which is owned by Gannett. More at Talking Biz News..... FCC Upholds WIP Fine - 8/27 - The FCC has upheld a $4000 fine issued to CBS's sports talker WIP in Philadelphia after the station "failed to announce the material terms" of its annual Wing Bowl contest, as well as "failing to conduct the contest in accordance with its material terms"..... RXP To Do Music Show For 4 - 8/27 - NYC alt rocker WRXP (101.9 FM) is teaming with Channel 4/WNBC for "NYFM," which will takes viewers behind the scenes of the local rock music scene. The TV program will be hosted by RXP morning hosts Matt Pinfield and Leslie Fram..... Dave Cruise Leaves WBEN - 8/26 - Dave Cruise exits the afternoon post at adult hits WBEN (95.7 FM) in Philadelphia due to budget cuts, leaving morning host Marilyn Russell as the only personality on the station, so reports FMQB..... Imus Ends RFD Simulcast - 8/26 - The NY Times tells us that WABC radio morning man Don Imus's (right) way is clear to have his show relayed via the Fox Business Network. Imus has confirmed that he's leaving the RFD-TV network, which is not carried widely in the NYC-Philadelphia area. By the way, Imus has lost his DC outlet with the flip of his station, WJZW, from oldies to classic rock. More at DCRTV's DC Radio News page..... Cox Promotes Faller - 8/25 - Cox Radio promotes Robin Faller to vice president and market manager for its Southern Connecticut cluster. He'd been general manager for Cox's stations in Stamford and Norwalk..... WBGO Gets OK To Move To Manhattan - 8/24 - From Tom Taylor's Radio-Info.com Monday morning newsletter: Turn up that jazz - New York-market jazz non-com WBGO (88.3 FM) wins FCC permission to move its antenna to New York City. It will still be a Class B1 licensed to Newark NJ. But trading power for height is usually a good bet for FM, particularly when it re-positions your transmitting point to a population center like Manhattan. For years, WBGO has been licensed to operate with 4.5-kw at 430 feet, and will now change to 2.5-kw at 869 feet..... New PD For WHAT - 8/24 - Jim Clark, morning man at Albany NY's WFLY, is the new program director of Philadelphia's WHAT (1340 AM)..... Observer To Launch RE Edition - 8/24 - The NY Observer will launch a paper dealing with the commercial real estate market. The first issue of the weekly Commercial Observer comes out September 15. The NY Times has more..... NYT Talking To Rupy About Charging For Web Stuff - 8/21 - Execs from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation have been meeting with publishers - including those from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Tribune - about forming a consortium that would charge for news distributed online and on portable devices. The LA Times has more..... Plan For Philly Newspapers - 8/20 - In its effort to exit bankruptcy, Inquirer and Daily News owner Philadelphia Newspapers LLC has presented a $92 million plan that would clear about $300 million in secured debt. Of the $92 million, $66.6 million in cash and property - the company's historic headquarters building at 400 North Broad Street - would go to its creditors. More from philly.com..... Smerconish To Chat With Obama - 8/19 - Philadelphia-based nationally-syndicated radio personality Michael Smerconish has been invited to the White House for a 20-minute one-on-one interview tomorrow with President Obama. Smerconish, who frequently guests on MSNBC's "Hardball," is heard on CBS's Big Talker, 1210 AM, WPHT..... Don Hewitt Dies - 8/19 - Don Hewitt, recognized as a father of modern television news and the creator of the medium's most successful broadcast, "60 Minutes," died today. He was 86. Hewitt was executive producer of CBS News, the title he took when he stepped down from "60 Minutes" in 2004. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year. Reuters has more..... CC Makes Philly Changes - 8/18 - DCRTV hears: More changes to Clear Channel Philadelphia. National Sales Manager Anthony Fuscaldo named general sales manager of WRFF, WISX, WIOQ. Two of the current GSMs fired, one demoted. More soon..... Alycia Lane Lands LA Gig - 8/18 - B&C reports: Alycia Lane (left), dismissed from Channel 3/KYW Philadelphia in early 2008 after a string of bizarre incidents, reports for duty at KNBC-TV Los Angeles August 19. She’ll be a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter. While working in Philadelphia, Lane was arrested after a traffic dispute with a New York police officer who she allegedly struck. She also had her private email account hacked by former co-anchor and reported romantic interest Larry Mendte, who did six months of house arrest for the crime and also lost his job at KYW, a CBS O&O. Lane, also at the center of a peculiar case involving NFL Network's Rich Eisen and some photos of her in a bikini, filed lawsuits against both Mendte and KYW. At the time of her dismissal, then-KYW President/General Manager Michael Colleran said management “concluded that it would be impossible for Alycia to continue to report the news as she, herself, has become the focus of so many news stories"..... WRDW Re-Signs Kannon - 8/18 - Philadelphia hot adult contemporary Wired 96.5, WRDW afternoon host Kannon re-ups with a two-year deal. He is also heard on Beasley country sister station WXTU, 92.5 FM..... Court Rules In Favor Of Eagles Radio Salesman - 8/18 - From All Access: A Pennsylvania federal appeals court has once again ruled in favor of CBS Radio against a former Philadelphia Eagles Radio Network salesman's claim of bias due to the distribution of a "dress for success" book warning employees not to "dress like a ghetto black." Shawn Brooks had been awarded over $600,000 by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission in 2005 after complaining that management at the network distributed copies of business fashion guru John Malloy's "New Dress For Success," which contains material advising black businesspeople to "dress very white" but not in solid blue suits and not to "dress like a ghetto black." A February 2006 state court ruling overturned the award, and Brooks appealed to federal court, which threw out the case on a motion by CBS for summary judgment. Brooks appealed again. The Eagles network is based at CBS's classic rock WYSP and sports talk WIP..... LI's WDRE & WBON Sold - 8/18 - Jarad Broadcasting sells dance WDRE (105.3 FM) in Calverton, Long Island, and Spanish tropical WBON (98.5 FM) in Westhampton, Long Island, to Jarad President John Caracciolo and JVC Broadcasting. The WDRE sale price is $1 million and the WBON price is for $1.7 million..... Jagger Named MD At Z100 - 8/17 - Jagger is named music director at Clear Channel's contemporary hit Z100, WHTZ, in NYC. He continues his duties as night host on CC's sister rhythmic contemporary outlet WKTU..... Anchor Change At "WorldFocus" - 8/17 - WNET-produced "WorldFocus," the Monday through Friday evening public TV newscast with an international perspective, is switching up its anchors. Martin Savidge, who has anchored the program since it debuted in 2008, will become a special correspondent, while Daljit Dhaliwal, who has been a correspondent and occasional substitute anchor, will move into that role full time. B&C has more..... Mary Stoker Smith Leaves 3 - 8/17 - Weekend news anchor Mary Stoker Smith is leaving Channel 3/KYW because her contract wasn't renewed. She joined the CBS station in 2005 from Channel 17/WPHL..... Star & Buc Wild Do Syndie Deal - 8/17 - Star and Buc Wild do a syndication deal with Access 1/SupeRadio that will put the duo back on the air. Most recently, Star (aka Troi Torain) was heard in mornings on NYC's dance WNYZ, Pulse 87.7, before leaving last fall. The duo had worked at WQHT and WWPR..... Bonneville IDed In Citadel Sale Rumor - 8/17 - Tom Taylor at Radio-Info.com reveals that a recent rumor in which one firm would buy all 23 of Citadel's former ABC Radio stations - including NYC's WABC (770 AM) and WPLJ (95.5 FM) - involved Salt Lake City's Bonneville. "More than one person has said they've heard this deal was in the oven, but that it had recently been sped up," Taylor writes in his Monday morning newsletter. "I'll repeat the counter-arguments I researched for you last week - financing a deal of this magnitude would be exceedingly hard. And if Citadel sold off the 23 stations it acquired from Disney in mid-2007, it would be stripping out half of its own cash flow, money it needs to service its debt. But every now and then you get a 'Rumor That Won't Die' - and right now, this is one of 'em"..... More: Imus To FBN - 8/17 - The NY Times has more on all the rumblings that WABC morning man Don Imus might move his radio show's video simulcast to the Fox Business Network..... Philly Rags Dealing For Survival - 8/16 - From wsj.com: The company that owns Philadelphia's daily newspapers plans to ask its lenders to wipe out about $300 million in debt in exchange for about $90 million in cash, real estate, and bankruptcy costs, according to people familiar with the matter, likely sparking a battle for control of two of the country's largest papers. The proposal, expected to be filed in a bankruptcy court as early as the coming week, sets up a clash between the lenders and the papers' chief executive officer, Brian Tierney, a Philadelphia advertising and public-relations executive who won a 2006 auction of his hometown dailies, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. The operating arm of the papers' parent company has been under bankruptcy protection since February..... Polita Vega Celebrates 50 - 8/14 - Polita Vega is celebrating 50 years on the radio. The Hispanic radio host is being honored with a two-day concert event by NYC's WPAT (93.1 FM) and WSKQ (97.9 FM)..... Kalas Scholarship Established - 8/14 - A batch of Philadelphia Phillies broadcasters has established a college scholarship fund in memory of Harry Kalas. Kalas died in April, just before he was to cover a Nationals game in DC. He was the Phillies' voice since 1971..... Bio Channel Does Sliwa - 8/14 - WABC radio's Curtis Sliwa will be featured on the Biography Channel, on Monday, 8/17, at 10 PM. He was the founder of the Guardian Angels in the latw 1970s..... Bob Grant Back To 770 - 8/13 - Ultra-righty Bob Grant will return to Citadel talker WABC (770 AM) with a two-hour show Sundays at noon..... Fios To Stream Yankees - 8/13 - Customers of Verizon's Fios television service will be able to stream live New York Yankees games in market for an additional fee. Verizon is the second cable operator to ink a deal with the Yankees' YES Network and Major League Baseball Advanced Media, following an inaugural deal with Cablevision last month. B&C has more..... Layoffs Coming To Journal News - 8/13 - Gannett's Westchester paper to lay off 50 of 192 newsroom employees. The Journal News is restructuring its news and advertising departments, says publisher Michael Fisch, and employees have to apply for a new position. A staffer tells Romenesko: "Our old job titles are history. We have until Friday to apply online for new jobs. Then next week, recruiters from Gannett will interview candidates. The final decision will be with local managers. Those people who are not picked for a new job will be out the door by August 28"..... WLTW & WOGL Top July Radio Ratings - 8/12 - From Radio-Info.com: In New York: rhythmic WKTU (103.5) saw its age 6+ AQH share moonwalk from a 4.0 in June to a 4.8 – tied with classic rock WAXQ for third in the market. Urban AC WRKS (98.7) gained cume and share, up 3.3 to 3.6. But urban WBLS, which also devoted a substantial amount of airtime to the Michael Jackson death in June, actually dropped, 3.5 to 3.2, into 14th place. Also having a bad July was CHR Z100/WHTZ, which kept its nearly five million-person cume, but dropped 5.0 to 4.5 in share. Classic hits WCBS-FM continued a three-month climb, 4.9 to 5.2 to 5.5, into second place. Adult contemporary WLTW topped NYC while classic hits WOGL ruled the Philadelphia roost. All the numbers are at radio-info.com..... New Haven Register Parent Out Of B'ruptcy - 8/12 - Journal Register, publisher of the New Haven Register and other newspapers, said it has emerged from bankruptcy protection and secured new financing from its lenders, six months after making its Chapter 11 filing. The bankruptcy process was relatively quick because the company, before making its filing in February, had reached an agreement to cancel its stock and become a private company controlled by its lenders. AP has more..... Pulse Parent Files For Bankruptcy - 8/11 - Mega Media, the company that uses low-power TV stations on channel 6's audio frequency to attract listeners to its dance-formatted "Pulse 87," a la WNYZ in NYC, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Court filings show Mega owes creditors more than $3.5 million. Look for Mega to be selling WNYZ..... MTV Leaving Times Square - 8/11 - MTV is planning to leave its famous studio which overlooksTimes Square at the end 2009. Viacom, MTV's parent company, didn't renew its studio lease when it extended its lease on more than 1 million square feet of offices at 1515 Broadway..... Bruce Anderson Leaving WABC Radio - 8/11 - One of the most recognizable news voices on city radio will head south, literally, when Bruce Anderson retires from talker WABC (770 AM) on September 18. Anderson worked at WHN, WBGO, and WKHK before coming to WABC a quarter-century ago, and in addition to newscasting, he became the de facto sidekick for numerous WABC hosts over the years. More from the NY Daily News..... More: Imus To FBN - 8/10 - B&C is reporting more rumblings that WABC-based radio morning man Don Imus (right) is about to move his TV simulcast from the rural RFD network to the more urbane Fox Business Network..... Tough Times For WLIU - 8/10 - An apparent victim of the failing economy, WLIU (88.3 FM), based on the campus of Stony Brook Southampton, appears ready to go off the air unless officials can construct an 11th hour deal. A release issued by Long Island University, which owns the station, said the school was "evaluating several options" for the station's future, including selling it to another organization, creating an operating agreement with another station, or finding another public broadcasting station or locally-based community group to take it over. The station is the last vestige of Long Island University on the Southampton Campus, which the State University of New York took over three years ago. The station has been actively looking for a new location for more than a year, since its lease with SUNY Stony Brook expires on October 3 this year. More from the Sag Harbor Express..... 3's Weather For 1210 - 8/10 - CBS Radio's "The Big Talker" WPHT, 1210 AM, drops The Weeather Channel for weather updates. It'll now rely on CBS TV sister Channel 3/KYW..... Philadelphia Daily Newspaper Decline - 8/9 - The NY Times tells us that Philadelphia, home to the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister Daily News, could be the first major US city without a daily newspaper..... New ND For WNBC - 8/8 - From B&C: KNTV San Jose VP of news Susan Sullivan is coming east to head up news at sister NYC NBC TVer Channel 4/WNBC. Sullivan is tasked with "leading the day-to-day news operations of WNBC, NY Nonstop and NBCnewyork.com, implementing content initiatives, and managing the distribution of that content across multiple platforms." She takes over the position previously held by Vickie Burns, who's now VP of content and audience development at WNBC..... Imus To FBN? - 8/7 - There are rumblings that WABC radio-based morning radio man Don Imus might be moving his TV home from the largely rural RFD cable network to the more urban Fox Business Network. More from Newsday..... Fox29 Starts 6 PM 'Cast - 8/6 - Fox-owned Channel 29/WTXF will debut a half-hour evening news program, "Fox29 News At Six," starting September 7. It'll be anchored by Thomas Drayton and Kerri-Lee Halkett with weather reports by John Bolaris..... Philly Newspapers Asks For B'ruptcy Plan Delay - 8/6 - Lawyers for Philadelphia Newspapers LLC - owner of the Daily News and Inquirer - have asked a bankruptcy court judge to extend until October 30 the deadline for them to file a reorganization plan. The plan had been due on August 31, but the company lawyers, in a filing Tuesday night, said that the complexity of the reorganization might require more time. More at philly.com..... Comcast Earnings Up Despite Sub Slowdown - 8/6 - Area cable TV giant Comcast said that its second-quarter earnings rose 53-percent, helped by solid revenue growth and a tax gain, while its subscriber additions continued a sharp slowdown on rising competition and the economic slump. More at wsj.com..... Slump Continues At Sirius XM - 8/6 - NYC-based Sirius XM Radio's second-quarter loss widened as the satellite-radio company reported $132 million in charges, while its subscriber count slipped and churn rose slightly. The number of Sirius XM subscribers fell in the first quarter for the first time since the service started in 2001 on sharp drops in consumer spending and car sales. More at wsj.com..... More Problems For Pulse 87 - 8/6 - Inside Radio tells us that New York City's Pulse 87 faces a new threat - the sale of the low-power TV station that it uses the audio carrier of for its "radio" signal. Mega Media's dance-formatted WNYZ-LP made headlines last month when it launched a public radio-style fundraiser asking listeners for cash. But now WNYZ's owners say they’re no longer convinced Mega will be able to pay the thousands owed and have decided to sell the low-power channel 6 television station..... More Seacrest On Z100 - 8/5 - Clear Channel contemporary hit outlet Z100, WHTZ, will add a fourth hour of "On Air With Ryan Seacrest" beginning August 10. The show will now air from 10 AM to 2 PM..... NLRB Investigates 4 Union Complaints Against NBC - 8/5 - From TVNewsCheck: The NABET-CWA union has stepped up pressure at NBC since the expiration five months ago of a contract, which covers 2,500 TV station and network staffers. The union has engaged in more than 25 different negotiations in an attempt to get a new contract. Last summer, the rank and file authorized a strike, but so far it hasn't come to that. This could also be the month when NABET-CWA gets some help from Washington. The National Labor Relations Board is investigating four separate complaints by the union that NBC is engaging in union-busting activities at its owned-and-operated stations in Washington, Chicago, LA, and at NYC's WNBC-TV. NABET-CWA's complaints against NBC also fall into the union-busting category. Essentially, the four NBC stations' newsrooms have created two new titles for employees, "content producer" and "platform manager," which would result in staff members taking on the responsibilities of multiple job functions, such as camera operator, editor, writer, and possibly on-air reporter..... Infinity Radio Founder Dies - 8/3 - Michael A. Wiener, a founder of the Infinity Broadcasting chain of radio stations who in retirement focused more on philanthropic work supporting the performing arts and research on heart disease, died on Sunday. He was 71. The NY Times has more..... George Taylor Morris Dies - 8/2 - George Taylor Morris (left), who was the morning host on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Deep Tracks classic rock channel and did the "XM Artist Confidential" series, has died at his home in Reston from throat cancer. He was 62. Over the years, Morris, nicknamed "GTM," worked at the NYC area's WHLI, WWDJ, WPIX-FM, as well as Boston's WCOZ, NBC's young adult radio network "The Source," and at the Westwood One Radio Network. In 1984, Morris was recruited by the Global Satellite Network to write, produce, and host "Reelin' In The Years," a weekly syndicated album rock show that was a mix of music, interviews, commentary, vintage commercials, plus film and TV clips. More details about Morris' career is in DCRTV's 8/2 Mailbag..... Promotions At WOR - 7/31 - Jennifer Buckley gets elevated to VP/director of sales at NYC talker WOR (710 AM). Also, Scott Lakefield gets promoted to program director from the assistant PD position..... Cablevision To Spin Off MSG - 7/30 - It looks as if Cablevision Systems will be spinning off its Madison Square Garden business after all. B&C reports that the cable company's board of directors has authorized the company's management to move forward with the spin-off of MSG to Cablevision shareholders.Following the spin-off, stockholders would own shares in both Cablevision and the new MSG, including the New York Knicks and New York Rangers professional sports teams, MSG Network, Madison Square Garden, and Radio City Music Hall, among a host of other assets..... Scarborough Beats Beck On NYC Radio Dial - 7/29 - TVNewser tells us that Joe Scaroborough is beating Glenn Beck on the radio in NYC. In a 10 AM to noon head-to-head matchup with Scarborough on the powerhouse WABC (770 AM) and Beck on the not-as-powerhouse WOR (710 AM), Scarborough beats Beck in all categories. In persons age 12+, Scarborough as a 3.3 rating to Beck's 2.2..... Beasley Promotes Vizza - 7/28 - Changes in Philly. Beasley promotes 14-year station veteran and 92.5 WXTU Promotions Director Mark Vizza to marketing and operations manager for the country outlet along with rhythmic contemporary WRDW, Wired 96.5. He joined the station in 1995 as morning producer and promotions director of both outlets..... Mike Jerrick Returns To 29 - 7/27 - Former Fox News Channel morning anchor Mike Jerrick returns to Philadelphia's Fox29, WTXF. He'll be an anchor/reporter on "Good Day Philadelphia." Jerrick joined Fox News from Fox-owned Fox29 in 2002..... Elroy Smith To Head RO's Gospel Stations - 7/27 - Elroy Smith, operations manager of Radio One's Philadelphia cluster, becomes the newly-created "inspirational format director" for the Lanham MD-based urban radio giant. He'll be teaming with Jay Stevens, who is now senior vice president of programming for Radio One. Smith will oversee all Radio One gospel/inspirational stations, including WPPZ, 103.9 FM, in Philadelphia. Smith will remain OM of Radio One's Philly cluster, but will step down as program director of urban WPHI, 100.3 FM, The Beat..... Country To LTW's HD2, Pride To KTU's HD2 - 7/27 - Clear Channel puts country on the digital HD2 of NYC's WLTW (106.7 FM), moving it from the HD2 of sister WKTU (103.5 FM). Gay-oriented Pride FM is now on KTU's HD2..... Melvin Alpern Dies - 7/24 - Melvin Alpern, a radio veteran of NYC's WQXR and Philadelphia's WRCV (now KYW), has died at age 85. He was known for his appearances in TV commercials for the old Silo appliance and stereo chain and countless other radio and TV spots. More from the Philadelphia Inquirer.... Photog Sues CBS For Use Of Philly Pic - 7/24 - A well-known photographer, R. Bradley Maule, has filed suit against CBS Radio for allegedly using his copyrighted photograph of the Philadelphia skyline on one of its radio stations' web sites without his permission. According to Law360, the suit, filed Wednesday in Pennsylvania, seeks at least $150,000 in damages. More from Radio Online..... WDAS Leads Wilmington, WAYV Tops AC - 7/24 - Philadelphia's WDAS tops the radio ratings in nearby Wilmington. More from Radio-Info. And WAYV tops the Atlantic City/Cape May radio heap. More from Radio-Info..... NYT To Sell Sox, NESN - 7/24 - The New York Times Company said it expects by January to sell its stake in the Boston Red Sox and New England Sports Network. But the company's executives declined to address the possible sale of the Boston Globe. The Globe has more..... Cronkite Remembered - 7/23 - TVNewser has more on the NYC funeral service today for CBS News legend Walter Cronkite, who passed away last week..... Wendy Williams To End BLS Show - 7/23 - FMQB tells us that nationally syndicated morning host Wendy Williams has announced she is leaving her radio gig to focus on her TV show, "The Wendy Williams Show," fulltime. "The Wendy Williams Experience," based at NYC's WBLS (107.5 FM) since 2002, will wrap up as of 7/31. Williams said she was "blessed to have a broadcast home" on New York radio, and added, "My hope is that you will do your best to find me on your remote so I can continue to entertain and inform you each and every day"..... ESPN Punishes NY Post Over Andrews Pics - 7/23 - ESPN banned staffers from the New York Post from appearing on any of its programming on Wednesday after the newspaper published photos this week taken from a video showing sideline reporter Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room. The Post published three images from the blurry video Tuesday. AP has more..... NYT Posts Profit Hike - 7/23 - The New York Times Company said its second-quarter profit climbed nearly 85 percent, as it cut costs aggressively to deal with a worsening decline in advertising. Its stock jumped in premarket trading. The company said it cut its operating costs by 20 percent to manage the revenue falloff. So reports AP..... WUSL Seeks New Morning Show - 7/22 - From Radio-Info.com: Clear Channel is making changes in mornings in Philly, as urban WUSL, "Power 99," drops the syndicated "Big Boy's Neighborhood"� and will launch a promotion titled "Making The Morning Show," starting August 3. That's when the station opens its airwaves to find the next big morning talent, with the help of its listeners. Auditions will take place on air, and listeners will be able to vote for their favorite. Already slated to be in the competition are Power 99's own personalities: middayer Shamara, 6-10 PM hosts the Hot Boyz, and late-night DJ Golden Girl, who previously held down the morning drive slot on the station..... Islanders Ditch Radio Team - 7/22 - Longtime Islanders radio analyst Chris King and play-by-play partner Steve Mears were fired last week by team president Chris Dey, who informed them that their contracts won't be renewed for next season. The radio team was let go in a cost-cutting move by the Islanders after Madison Square Garden network, which has a contract for the team's TV and radio broadcasting rights, gave the Islanders permission to use the simulcast signal of the television broadcast with announcers Howie Rose and Billy Jaffe. Newsday has more..... Smerconish Lands Atlanta Station - 7/22 - Nationally syndicated WPHT (1210 AM) morning talker Michael Smerconish gets his show picked up by Atlanta talker WGST. Where he'll air live in morning drive..... Philly FM Sports Rumblings - 7/22 - Radio-Info shoots down rumors that Greater Media may start an FM relay of sports talker WPEN, 950 AM, on its 97.5 adult contemporary WNUW "Now" signal. Rumors are still rumbling that CBS may put sports talker WIP, 610 AM, on FM. Possibly on 94.1, in place of classic rock WYSP. Stay tuned..... ESPN Plans Site For NYC Radioer - 7/20 - ESPN plans to expand the local sports website concept to NYC. The new WEPN, 1050 ESPN site will include online radio and podcasts from the network's own radio stations in each market, along with video and original content. By the way, WEPN has a new transmitter based in North Bergen, NJ, to improve its signal strength at night..... Carl Gets RTNDA Gig - 7/20 - Chris Carl, news director of Wilmington DE talker WDEL, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Radio Television News Directors Association. He fills the slot left vacant when Mark Kraham, of Hagerstown MD's Channel 25/ WHAG, was elected chairman of the RTNDA's Region 12..... Pulse 87.7 Faces Cash Shortage - 7/20 - DCRTV hears that the slumping economy and financial problems could force NYC's dance-oriented Pulse 87.7 off the air. We also hear that the station has halted plans to expand its signal to the DC area, via the audio carrier of a low-power TVer on channel 6, also on 87.7 FM. More soon..... Charlotte Shedd Dies - 7/20 - Charlotte Shedd, who once hosted a show On Wilmington's WDEL, died last week at her home in Arden DE of complications from a stroke. She was 96. Shedd, an Australian native who emograted to the US in 1938, hosted a radio show focused on culture..... Walter Cronkite Dies - 7/18 - Walter Cronkite, America's preeminent television journalist of the 1960s and 1970s who as anchor and managing editor of "CBS Evening News" played a primary role in establishing television as the dominant national news medium of that era, died Friday night at age 92. The Washington Post has more..... WABC Radio Makes Weekend Changes - 7/17 - Radio-Info.com wonders if financial talker Bob Brinker off longtime flagship WABC (770 AM)? It appears so. WABC is giving Sunday night regular John Batchelor the same hours on Saturday - 9 PM to 1 AM. Veteran Gil Gross is now doing a real estate show earlier on Saturday - but there's no Bob Brinker, long syndicated by Citadel Media and its predecessor ABC Radio Networks. WABC's going to experiment with a cast of candidates in the Sunday late-afternoon slot..... Hughley To WRKS - 7/16 - From FMQB: WRKS (98.7 KISS-FM)/New York welcomes celebrity film star, comedian and television personality D.L. Hughley for mornings beginning July 20 with The D.L. Hughley Morning Show. "We are ecstatic to welcome D.L. Hughley to the KISS-FM family!” says Jill Strada, WRKS PD. Hughley will be joined by former BET journalist and established radio and television personality Jacque Reid, comic Steve Wilson, 98.7 Kiss FM radio veteran Raqiyah Mays, and New York’s voice of the black community for over 40 years Bob Slade rounding out the cast..... "Lite" Shines In Latest Radio Ratings - 7/16 - New York's "Lite" wins again in June PPMs, with WCBS-FM climbing to second. Radio-Info.com tells us that classic hits WCBS-FM has grown its age 6+ AQH share from 4.8 to 4.9 to 5.2 since May and just passed CHR Z100 (4.9 to 5.1 to 5.0). Yankees flagship WCBS-AM improves 4.1 to 4.4 to 4.5. CHR challenger “Now 92.3” WXRK is growing its cume – now up past 2.6 million – but the share is on a 1.5 to 1.8 to 1.8 three-month trend. Dance-fomatted “Pulse 87” WNYZ, the audio portion of a low power TV station, has risen 0.6 to 0.7 to 0.8. In Philadelphia, Greater Media’s WMGK was #1 25-54 adults for the month. In the broader age 6+ sweep over the last three months, the trend sure is pretty-looking – 4.4 to 4.6 to 5.3. Of course this is Philadelphia, so Jerry Lee’s B101/WBEB is sitting up at #1, 7.3 to 7.4 to 7.1. Followed by all-news KYW, on a nice 5.8 to 6.0 to 6.3 run. That takes KYW past CBS sibling classic hits WOGL (6.7 to 6.4 to 6.2). See the latest People Meter results – both cume and share – on the Ratings Page of Radio-Info.com..... Lange Pleads Not Guilty To DUI Charge - 7/15 - All Access tells us that Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange has entered a not guilty plea to a DUI charge arising from a minor traffic accident in Toms River NJ on Friday. Lange, who appears daily on Stern's Sirius XM Satellite Radio morning show, was charged after rear-ending another car with his rental car, but his attorney Michael Grasso said that Lange passed an alcohol screening test. A hearing is scheduled for 8/26..... NY Times To Sell QXR - 7/14 - The New York Times Company will sell WQXR (96.3 FM) to WNYC radio and Univision, the companies announced Tuesday, in a complex deal that preserves WQXR as the only station devoted solely to classical music in New York City, but could alter its character. WQXR would move to a weaker signal near the high end of the FM band, and would become a listener-supported station, owned by WNYC, the nation's largest public radio station. The Times Company, which has been trying to shed assets to raise cash and weather a newspaper industry downturn, would receive $45 million, but would sever ties with a station it has owned since 1944. Classical WQXR would move to the weaker 105.9 signal and become owned and managed by WNYC, which operates a public radio talker on 93.9. Meanwhile, Univision's Spanish WCAA would move from 105.9 to the more powerful 96.3, WQXR's current dial position. The NY Times has more..... Lewis Takes CC Ad Reins In Philly - 7/14 - Clear Channel names Richard Lewis as director of ad sales for the company's six-station radio cluster in Philadelphia. A 25-year industry vet, Lewis has served variously as market manager and regional manager for Clear Channel radio outlets in Allentown, Harrisburg, the Lehigh Valley, and upstate New York..... CBS Joins Comcast's On-Demand - 7/14 - Comcast's online TV offering is starting to look like a real competitor to Hulu. CBS confirmed this morning it is joining the area media giant cable company's On-Demand Online trial, part of the industry-wide TV Everywhere initiative. CBS is the first broadcast network to provide content to the online TV service. More from B&C..... More FM Sports Talkers For CBS - 7/14 - DCRTV's been telling you that CBS Radio is planning to create a line-up of FM sports talkers around the country. It launched Baltimore's 105.7 The Fan, WJZ-FM, last fall, and will kick off a sports talker on DC's WJFK 106.7 later this month. Now, we're hearing that Boston is next, with a sports talk format heading for a CBSer there. More at our Boston page. We've also heard rumors that CBS could put its Philadelphia AM sports talker WIP on the FM signal of classic rocker WYSP. Stay tuned..... Marvell Scott To 11 - 7/14 - Sources tell NewsBlues that Channel 11/WPIX has hired Marvell Scott as a sports anchor. Until two weeks ago, Scott, who is also a licensed doctor, anchored weekend sports at Channel 7/WABC. He abruptly parted ways with the ABC station to "pursue other opportunities"..... Slump Hits Philly Radioers - 7/13 - The Philadelphia Inquirer looks at the economic slump's impact on local radio stations. Particularly hard hit: Radio One, which owns three Philadelphia radioers. Also in the Inquirer, how the new electronic Portable People Meter rating system is changing the landscape of Philadelphia radio..... Alycia Lane Heads To LA - 7/13 - NewsBlues tells us that Alycia Lane, the former anchor at Channel 3/KYW, has found a buyer for her Washington Square condo in Philadelphia, and she left Saturday for Los Angeles, where, she says, she hopes to find a job in TV. Lane's main squeeze, Chris Booker, moved to LA in early June, where he does a shift on AMP Radio. They have a new home in the Hollywood Hills..... DUI Arrest For Stern Sidekick - 7/10 - TMZ is reporting that Howard Stern sidekick, comic, and actor Artie Lange has been arrested in New Jersey for "suspicion of DUI" and "careless driving" after rear-ending a vehicle..... 11 Planning 6:30 PM 'Cast - 7/10 - Channel 11/WPIX is quietly preparing for the launch of another newscast, possibly at 6:30 PM, though details are still a bit sketchy. There's more from NY Daily News..... 2er Spat Upon - 7/10 - A Channel 2/WCBS cameraman gets spit on while covering a story. More at wcbstv.com..... Philly Metro Goes Missing - 7/9 - Just a month after another free-circulation Philadelphia daily called it quits, the mysterious disappearance of the Metro newspaper this week had some people thinking it had gone out of business as well. But rumors of the Metro's demise are greatly exaggerated, according to Seabay Capital, which bought the three newspapers published by Metro USA on June 1. "We decided to take a few days off," said Yggers "Julius" Mortensen, the Seabay chief executive. "I can confirm that we're not closing down." More from philly.com.... 8's Cohn To Tampa - 7/9 - NewsBlues tells us that Alan Cohn, an investigative reporter at Channel 8/WTNH in New Haven, has been hired at WFTS-TV in Tampa..... 21 Adds Sailing Show - 7/9 - Annapolis MD-based The Sailing Channel gets its "Sailing Channel Theater" program picked up by NYC area PBSer Channel 21/WLIW. The half-hour series features "classic and critically-acclaimed films that capture the magic and adventure of sailing." Episodes stream online at TheSailingChannel.tv..... Verizon Files FCC Complaint Against Cablevision - 7/8 - Verizon has filed a program access complaint with the FCC against Cablevision, saying that the cable operator should be compelled to sell HD programming from its Madison Square Garden Network to the telco and its FIOS multichannel video service. Verizon says the company has "intentionally and unlawfully" refused to make that unique programming available. The unique programming it is focused on includes the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, and Buffalo Sabers. B&C has more..... Brancadora Buys "WIBG" - 7/8 - All Access tells us that Rick Brancadora has closed on the acquisition of WILW in Avalon NJ. "My wife Nancy and I am thrilled to have expanded our acquisitions. Within two weeks, WILW will become the 'New WIBG-FM @ 94.3.' Additionally, we are relocating the FM transmitter from Cape May Court House, to the suburban Atlantic City region at Ocean View NJ, with a new power level of 6-kilowatts." The sale price was $1.475 million..... NYC Radio Covers Jackson Memorial - 7/8 - David Hinckley at NY Daily News: Radio's musical tribute to Michael Jackson, which continued through Tuesday's memorial service, also has been illustrating where radio - and black radio in particular - has traveled from Jackson's early career up through today and tomorrow. On the air Tuesday, WBLS (107.5 FM) again led the chorus, carrying live audio from the memorial service. WBLS already had a Michael day, multiple Michael tributes and long format-breaking features like April Woodard and Imhotep Gary Byrd taking fans' calls for hours. WBLS wasn't alone, of course. WRKS (98.7 FM) has also stayed hard on the story, and Cubby Bryant and Cindy Vero of WKTU (103.5 FM) hosted an hour-long special Tuesday before the service. WKTU did an all-Michael weekend, which program director Rob Miller said brought "an incredible response"..... Koplan To Sue 29 - 7/7 - NewsBlues tells us that Gerald Kolpan, the veteran features reporter at Fox-owned Channel 29/WTXF in Philadelphia, who was let go in February, is moving forward with an age discrimination lawsuit against Fox. He was with the station 21 years..... Leinwand Jumps To Clear Channel - 7/6 - Alan Leinwand, who was once general manager and general sales manager of CBS Radio's WJFK in Washington, becomes general sales manager for Clear Channel's NYC radio cluster. Leinwand was most-recently vice president for sales at CBS's WXRK in NYC..... 7 Balances Good HD Pic & SD Subchannel - 7/6 - Channel 7/WABC gets a mention from B&C in a piece on how TV stations are weighing using their digital TV bandwidth for improved high-def signals or, instead, for several standard-def subchannels, offering everything from old TV shows to weather forecasts. WABC is offering a service called Live Well, which health shows on a digital subchannel..... Debt Dilemma For Clear Channel - 7/6 - The NY Post reports that radio giant Clear Channel is running out of options to attract interest in a $3 billion debt offering, setting the stage for the company to break its loan agreements later this year. The San Antonio-based firm is vulnerable to defaulting on its massive debt load in the fourth quarter unless it renegotiates with its lenders or raises cash..... 9 Makes News Cuts - 7/3 - WWOR/Channel 9 will officially cut its nightly newscasts in half, and move them to 11 PM starting July 13, the NY Daily News has learned. Also, the station will eliminate weekend newscasts the following Saturday. As previously reported, the changes are the result of rounds of talks within the management of the Fox-owned station on how to dramatically cut costs, while continuing to serve the audience. Harry Martin and Brenda Blackmon will continue to anchor the weeknight newscasts, which will be a half-hour under the new structure. "The Wendy Williams Show," which launches that day at 10 AM on sister station WNYW/Channel 5, will be rerun in the 10 PM slot on Channel 9. The shift to a shorter newscast comes after station brass opted to not renew the contracts of correspondents and fill-in anchors Jennifer Jordan and Megan Vega, and the elimination of several writers and production staffers. Word is no other staffers will be cut with the new schedule..... Copyright Dave Hughes/DCRTV.....

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