DCRTV Front - Boston - Contact Us - Mailbag - Advertise - Support DCRTV NJ Pub Radio To Montclair - 5/16 - From Radio-Info.com: New York Public Radio (WNYC-AM/FM, WQXR) will put its New Jersey Public Radio News operation at Montclair State University. Ironic, because Montclair State was one of the entities that was interested in buying some of the full-power non-commercial FMs Governor Chris Christie was selling as he decommissioned the New Jersey Network. Now Montclair State's getting a piece of the action, through a partnership with New York Public Radio (which did actually buy four NJN radio stations, in Trenton, Sussex, Netcong and Toms River). Students and faculty at Montclair State's School of Communications will have a chance to create news content for the Garden State, and also programming that airs on New York City's news/talk WNYC (820) and WNYC-FM (93.9). WNYC will still produce content at its Manhattan facility. The project's going forward with funding from the New Jersey-based Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Last year, Montclair State became the "newsroom headquarters"� for NJTV, the successor to the state-run NJN. It's producing the nightly "NJ Today"� news show from the DuMont Television Center..... WLTW & WBEB Top Radio Ratings - 5/15 - WLTW tops the latest batch of radio ratings for NYC and WBEB tops Philly..... Changes At FAS - 5/14 - Cumulus Westchester adult contemporary outlet, WFAS-FM, 103.9, puts longtime parttimer Mike Allan in middaysm replacing Bobby Farrell. Also, Lauren Crocker joins Jay Michaels in mornings as co-host. She comes from contemporary hit WBBO in Monmouth NJ..... AC Radio Personality Murdered - 5/11 - From philly.com: A South Jersey talk radio personality was found fatally shot Thursday in a bedroom of her Atlantic County home. Police discovered April Kauffman's body in her home in Linwood NJ. She was shot several times. No arrests have been made. Kauffman co-hosted a weekly program on Atlantic City area news talker WOND, 1400 AM..... CBS-FM's Thomas To Tampa - 5/9 - Brian Thomas leaves his gig as programming chief for CBS's classic hits WCBS-FM, 101.1 FM, to head CBS's radio cluster in Tampa..... Conant Off WRTI Mornings - 5/9 - Philadelphia radio veteran Dave Conant leaves the morning shift at Temple University's classical/jazz WRTI, 90.1 FM. He continue at the station, doing his general manager duties..... New ND At WEMP - 5/3 - Merlin NYC all-newser WEMP, 101.9 FM, names Mark Austin Thomas as its news director. His career includes news director stints at LA's KABC and KFI, and San Francisco's KSOL..... Scott Williams Joins 29 - 5/3 - Scott Williams joins Fox-owned Channel 29/WTXF in Philadelphia as its chief meteorologist. He comes from the Weather Channel and replaces John Bolaris, who "mutually agreed" to part ways with WTXF in January..... TV Down, Internet Up At Comcast - 5/3 - One year after taking control of NBCUniversal last year, Comcast posted a quarterly profit that exceeded analyst expectations and signaled progress at the struggling NBC broadcast network. Comcast, which is the largest cable provider in the United States lost 37,000 TV subscribers in the first quarter of 2012. But added 439,000 broadband internet subscribers. The Philadelphia-based firm reported a nearly 8% jump in the overall price paid by subscribers for cable, internet, and phone services. The NY Times has more..... Mendte & Gardner To 106.9 - 5/1 - Merlin's new Philadelphia news talker, WWIQ, 106.9 FM, adds local TV veteran Larry Mendte and local radio veteran Al Gardner to co-host mornings. More at phillymag.com..... Flyers To PEN - 5/1 - Philadelphia sports talker "The Fanatic" WPEN-FM, 97.5, announces a deal to become the flagship of the NHL Flyers, beginning with the 2012-2013 season. The games will be simulcast on sister sports talker WPEN-AM, 950, and Greater Media says several Flyers games will be broadcast on legendary rocker WMMR, 93.3..... Lopez Replaces Towers At WISX - 4/30 - Hot adult contemporary WISX in Philadelphia removes Jay Towers from the weekday evening shot for the syndicated Mario Lopez. Towers will do weekend hosting for the station..... Urban Stations Struggle With Radio Ratings - 4/30 - The NY Times looks at the struggles "black and minority stations" are having with the new, electronic PPM radio ratings. And how that's leading to one fewer urban contemporary outlet in the NYC market..... Weijia Jiang Leaves Baltimore For NYC's 2 - 4/30 - Weijia Jiang (right) leaves CBS-owned Channel 13/WJZ in Baltimore for CBS's NYC TVer, Channel 2/WCBS. She's been a general assignment reporter at WJZ since 2008, after working at Salisbury MD's Channel 16/WBOC..... 76ers To WPEN - 4/27 - FMQB tells us that the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers announce a new multi-year radio broadcast partnership with Greater Media's WPEN, 97.5 The Fanatic and 950 ESPN Radio, exiting their longtime flagship home base at CBS Radio's WIP. The first broadcast on 97.5 The Fanatic will be Game One of the NBA Playoffs and will continue through the remainder of the 2011-2012 playoffs. Some playoff games this season will be simulcast on 950 ESPN Radio as well, with simulcast dates being announced after the release of the NBA Playoffs schedule. 76ers radio announcer Tom McGinnis will continue to call the games as he does now, without change..... More: Kiss Moves To 107.5 - 4/27 - Radio-Info.com has more on movement of the "Kiss" format from 98.7 to WBLS at 107.5, to make room for an ESPN sports talker on 98.7: How will the eventual “Kiss” at 107.5 look? First, no Tom Joyner. (Premiere’s Steve Harvey wins the battle of syndicated urban morning shows in New York, in a blow for Reach Media and Radio One. Reach is urging Joyner fans to stay connected through his smartphone app.) Shaila from Kiss gets middays. There’s no Michael Baisden (WBLS' Jeff Foxx wins the afternoon shift). And Kiss evening jock Lenny Green replaces the Keith Sweat-hosted “Quiet Storm." Both stations used to fare much better in the diary-measurement days, pre-2008. But in PPM times, WRKS never scored higher than a 4.6 share with age 6+ listening. That was in the very first PPM monthly, for July 2008. WBLS’s best PPM month was a 4.4, in March 2009..... Pete Fornatale Dies - 4/26 - From newsday.com: Rock music fans are mourning the death of Pete Fornatale, a beloved radio disc jockey who promoted the best new musicians for decades in his easy, free-form style. Fornatale was 66 when he died Thursday in New York.At New York's Fordham University, his alma mater, president Joseph McShane called the DJ "the voice of several generations" who interviewed the hottest musicians and played their new songs. As a DJ on WNEW-FM, his format was to play lesser known artists and album cuts beyond the hit singles. Until his death, Fornatale still hosted the show "Mixed Bag" on Saturdays for Fordham University's WFUV-FM station..... ESPN To NYC's 98.7, Kiss To Head Over To BLS Under New Owner - 4/26 - Radio-Info.com tells us: Complicated story involving Emmis, ESPN and the company that is taking over urban WBLS (107.5) and WLIB (1190). First, Emmis will LMA its WRKS/98.7 to ESPN. 98.7 becomes the new home of the English-language ESPN Radio franchise in the Big Apple. Until September, ESPN will simulcast its New York-market WEPN (1050) on 98.7. This Fall, 1050 becomes the new home of Spanish language "ESPN Deportes." As for urban AC "Kiss", Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan says "recent changes in the way radio ratings are measured" - meaning the Arbitron PPM - "made it very difficult for us to find success with Kiss FM." He says "we hope the best parts of Kiss will live on." That leads to an intellectual property deal that likely moves the "Kiss" identity to 107.5 - WBLS. The new YMF Media is taking over WBLS and WLIB from Inner City in a Chapter 11 transaction. Smulyan thanks the employees at "Kiss" WRKS, and this weekend, the station will celebrate "30 years of Kiss FM", since Emmis bought the station in 1994. The new “ESPN New York 98.7” debuts Monday, April 30..... Bypass For 10's Schwartz - 4/26 - Channel 10/WCAU meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz is recovering from successful double bypass heart surgery. More at nbcphiladelphia.com..... ESPN Buying 94.7? - 4/25 - There's speculation that ESPN might buy North Jersey's religious WFME, 94.7 FM, and move NYC sports talker WEPN there, freeing up its current 1050 AM signal for a Spanish ESPN Deportes sports station. More at radio-info.com..... Paul Hunsberger Dies - 4/24 - A familiar voice in South Jersey radio, with more than six decades of service to Bridgeton's WSNJ alone, Paul Hunsberger passed away late Monday at his home in Bridgeton. The broadcaster, who began with the station in 1948, was 93 years old. More at nj.com..... Brian Carter Dies - 4/23 - A native of Baltimore, Brian Carter (right), 56, died suddenly Sunday from an apparent heart attack. His radio career started in the 1980s, when he was a personality on Baltimore's old contemporary hit WBSB, B104, and later on urban contemporary WERQ, 92Q. From 1987 to 1999, he was half of the "Carter And Sandborn" morning show team at urban contemporary WUSL, Power 99, in Philadelphia, and later at cross-town urban adult contemporary WDAS-FM. Most recently, Carter was heard on SirusXM and, for the past six years, did weekends on NYC urban adult contemporary outlet WBLS. More at wbls.com and at philly.com..... O'Hearn Returns To 6 - 4/19 - Erin O'Hearn returns to ABC's Channel 6/WPVI in Philadelphia to anchor Sunday morning and midday newscasts. She'd been on maternity leave for a year..... Dick Clark Dies - 4/18 - Dick Clark, the "American Bandstand" and "New Year's Rockin' Eve" host known for his perpetual youth, died Wednesday at age 82. Clark suffered a massive heart attack following a procedure in Los Angeles, ew.com reports. Clark started as a Philadelphia radio DJ in the early 1950s. His early bandstand TV shows took place in a studio at the old WFIL-TV, Channel 6..... Stern's Sirius Suit Thrown Out - 4/17 - A judge has dismissed radio shock jock Howard Stern's lawsuit accusing Sirius XM Radio of failing to pay him stock awards he claimed were due for helping the satellite radio company exceed growth targets. Reuters has more..... WLTW & WBEB Top Radio Ratings - 4/17 - Adult contemporary WLTW tops the March monthly NYC radio ratings. And, adult contemporary WBEB tops the Philadelphia numbers..... Mina Joins WUSL - 4/16 - FMQB tells us that Mina Say What gets added to the morning show of Channel Channel's urban contemporary WUSL, 98.9 FM, with Uncle O, Mikey Dredd, and Mutha Knows beginning April 18. She will also handle the role of social media networks manager for Philadelphia's WUSL and sister WDAS-AM..... Merlin Starts Stunting On 106.9 - 4/16 - From radio-info.com: This morning, WKDN, Camden (106.9 FM) dropped the previous Christian format and tracked REM's "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine"). Noontime brought the "All-Hannity" stunt, spiked with newscasts from long-gone Philadelphia stations like top 40 "Famous 56" WFIL, and commercials from years gone by. Al Gardner is working on the project for Randy Michaels-run Merlin Media. The speculation is that, following the lead of Merlin's FMs in New York and Chicago, its newest station, acquired from Family Radio, will go talk. The "All Hannity" stunt suggests that's true. Other rumored additions are Glenn Beck and, once he's off CBS Radio's WPHT, 1210, AM Rush Limbaugh..... 11 & 2 End Copter Sharing Deal - 4/16 - Channel 11/WPIX and Channel 2/WCBS are no longer sharing aerial coverage in New York City. The two stations teamed up in 2009 to share a helicopter as a way to cut expenses. WPIX has ended the deal and leased its own chopper. More at nydailynews.com..... CBS Drops Rush In Philly - 4/10 - Titanic righty talker Rush Limbaugh loses his Philadelphia outlet of CBS-owned news talker WPHT-AM, 1210. The speculation is that he'll be picked up by new Merlin acquisition WKDN-FM, 106.9, which is rumored to be flipping the former Family Station religious outlet to a news talk format. Merlin recently launched all-newsers in New York City and Chicago, with less than impressive ratings. WPHT will put Philadelphia native Michael Smerconish in the noon to 3 PM slot. More at nytimes.com..... Steve Fredericks Dies - 4/10 - Steve Fredericks, 72, a longtime Philadelphia radio sportscaster, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He'd been heard on the old WCAU-AM radio. More at philly.com..... Gil Noble Dies - 4/5 - From FishbowlNY: Gil Noble’s career at WABC/Channel 7 spanned more than four decades. He started as a reporter and weekend anchor in 1967, but it was his signature show, "Like It Is," an African American weekly public affairs show that made him a legend. The station says Noble died at age 80 following a long illness..... 11 & 17 Return To DirecTV - 4/5 - Tribune and DirecTV have ended their contract dispute, restoring Channel 11/WPIX, Channel 17/WPHL, and WGN America to the lineups of area DirecTV subscribers. They'd been missing since April 1. More at broadcastingcable.com..... Marimow Returns To Inquirer - 4/5 - Bill Marimow, who served as the top editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2006 to 2010, will rejoin the paper in the same role. More at nytimes.com..... Inquirer & Daily News Sold Again - 4/4 - A group of investors has agreed to buy the Philadelphia Inquirer and related media assets for $55 million - less than half the price paid at a 2010 bankruptcy auction. The deal for Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, is the fourth ownership change for the media properties in less than six years. More at rawstory.com..... 11 & 17 Go Missing From DirecTV - 4/2 - Area subscribers of DirecTV can no longer watch NYC's Channel 11/WPIX and Philadelphia's Channel 17/WPHL due to a carriage dispute between the satellite TV provider and the stations' owner, Tribune. Tribune asked DirecTV to remove its local station signals in dozens of markets just past midnight April 1. Also missing from DirecTV, the signal of Tribune-owned WGN America. Both WPIX and WPHL are CW affiliates. More at broadcastingcable.com..... Berlamino Leaves 11 For CBS's New 55 - 4/2 - From broadcastingcable.com: Betty Ellen Berlamino has been named vice president and station manager at Long Island's Channel 55/WLNY, the independent station that CBS Television Stations agreed to acquire in December. The $55 million deal closed late last week, with WLNY flipping the switch on high-def for the first time. Berlamino departed Channel 11/WPIX in June 2010, and a year later was named senior VP and director of sales at CBS Television Stations, with sales oversight of the non-CBS-affiliated stations in the group. She gives up that role to take over WLNY..... Gillette Joins XRK - 3/29 - CBS's contemporary hitWXRK, Now 92.3, names Rick Gillette program director. He comes from a like gig at KZON and KOOL in Phoenix..... Connoisseur Buys 4 LI Stations - 3/26 - Radio-Info.com reports about $23 million multi-station sale on Long Island, where Connoisseur buys four from Barnstable. Connoisseur Communications executive Jeff Warshaw grew up on Long Island, and now his Connecticut-based Connoisseur buys these four stations from Massachusetts-based Barnstable - adult contemporary "K-Joy" WKJY, Hempstead (98.3), oldies "B103" WBZO, Bayshore, Generation X-targeted "94X" WIGX, Smithtown, and standards WHLI, Hempstead at 1100..... 4 Dumps "NYL" - 3/24 - Channel 4/WNBC's "New York Live," the lifestyle show that bumped the NBC station's 5 PM news in 2009, will be dropped in the fall..... Hanson & Maxx To JBR Mornings - 3/22 - John Hanson and Charlie Maxx take over the morning show at Wilmington's adult contemporary WJBR, 99.5 FM. They replace Dave Cruise and Jill Quale..... Priolo To WNYW - 3/21 - News anchor Teresa Priolo leaves Albany's WRGB-TV to be a freelance reporter at NYC's Fox-owned Channel 5/WNYW..... WKTW & KYW Top FEB Radio Ratings - 3/20 - Adult contemporary WLTW tops the February monthly radio ratings for NYC. And all-newser KYW-AM is tops in Philadelphia..... Philly Rags Make Cuts - 3/16 - From philly.com: Philadelphia Media Network will lay off 19 unionized workers in its three newsrooms - four fulltimers and 15 parttimers - and 21 additional newsroom employees have been approved for voluntary buyouts. The layoffs of reporters, copy editors, multimedia content producers, and others at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com would occur March 31. Five nonunion employees from the three newsrooms, including three from The Inquirer, also were laid off, bringing the total number of jobs being lost to 45..... Brennan Leaves 5 - 3/12 - Mediabistro reports that longtime reporter Dick Brennan has been cut loose by WNYW/Channel 5. Brennan, the station’s chief political correspondent since 2007, left Channel 5 Friday. A station spokesperson says Brennan’s contract was not renewed..... Eric Lerner To 10 - 3/9 - Eric Lerner is the new vice president and general manager for NBC-owned Channel 10/WCAU in Philadelphia. He comes from the same gig at Cox's KIRO-TV in Seattle. He replaces Dennis Bianchi, who left to be VP-GM at Philly's Fox-owned Channel 29/WTXF..... Bill Kimble Dies - 3/8 - Philadelphia radio veteran Bill Kimble died March 6 of lung disease at his home in Jeffersonville PA. He hosted at then-adult standards WPEN, 950 AM, from 1984 to 1998..... Merlin Closes On 106.9 - 3/7 - Merlin Media closes on Philadelphia-market WKDN, 106.9 FM, for $22.5 million from Family Stations. The religious station is expected to flip to all-news..... RKS Ups Bugsy - 3/7 - Fred "Bugsy" Buggs is named assistant program director of Emmis urban adult contemporary WRK, 98.7 KISS-FM in NYC. He will continue to produce "The Tom Joyner Morning Show" and be heard Saturdays from 3 PM to 8 PM.... 4 Doesn't Renew Simmons' Contract - 3/7 - The NY Post reports: After more than three decades, WNBC/Channel 4 is tossing anchorwoman Sue Simmons overboard. Last week, the station gave her the bad news that her contract would not be renewed — and come June, she’s history. Simmons, who has won four Emmys since starting at Channel 4 in 1980 and is the top-paid anchorwoman at any local station in the country, would happily have stayed..... Jacobson Upped At NY1 - 3/5 - NYC local cable news channel NY1 names Dan Jacobson news director. He replaces Bernie Han, who was promoted to vice president of news and programming for NY1 parent Time Warner Cable last year. Jacobson had been NY1's assistant news director..... Kessler Leaves WEMP - 2/29 - Sara Lee Kessler leaves Merlin's NYC all-newser, WEMP, 101.9 FM. She used to be an anchor at Channel 9/WWOR..... Asa Aarons To 2 - 2/29 - Asa Aarons jumps to Channel 2/WCBS. The consumer affairs reporter spent 15 years at Channel 4/WNBC, before heading to his current three-year gig at NY1..... Lamme To Head CC Philly - 2/27 - Clear Channel names Dennis Lamme manager of its Philadelphia radio cluster. He's been from market manager for Clear Channel's Pittsburgh radio cluster..... Seidel To WEMP - 2/22 - Eric Seidel is the new interim program director at Merlin's new NYC all-newser, WEMP. Most recently, Seidel has been running his own radio consultancy. He's also worked for CNN, Philadelphia's old WCAU-AM, Baltimore's WCBM, and Atlanta's WGST..... WLTW & KYW Top Radio Ratings - 2/21 - WLTW tops the NYC radio ratings for January. And KYW is tops in Philadelphia..... Diana Rocco To Philly's 3 - 2/20 - Diana Rocco, who leaves Boston's Channel 7/WHDH after just three months, joins Philadelphia's Channel 3/KYW as a general assignment reporter..... Cannon Leaving 92.3 - 2/17 - Nick Cannon is leaving his morning show gig at CBS's NYC hot outlet WXRK, 92.3 Now, due to health issues. He will continue his syndicated "Cannon's Countdown" show. Recently, Cannon was hospitalized for kidney failure. Reportedly, he's also suffering from blod clots and immune system problems..... Carlos De Jesus Dies - 2/16 - Carlos De Jesus, who was heard on NYC's disco-formatted WKTU in the 1970s, died on February 13. He became program director at the station, which was at 92.3 FM, and also hosted "New York Hot Tracks" for Channel 7/WABC. He also worked at WBLS and WNJR..... Buyouts At Inquirer, Daily News - 2/16 - In a cost-cutting move, the parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com said it will reduce the number of newsroom positions by 37 - through buyouts, it hopes - by the end of March. More at philly.com..... Lewin To Mets' Radio Team - 2/14 - Josh Lewin joins the NY Mets' radio team at CBS sports talker WFAN, 660 AM. He'll be partnered with Howie Rose in the broadcast booth..... Ramsey To WOR Afternoons - 2/10 - Dave Ramsey gets moved from taped evenings to the live 2 PM to 4 PM slot on NYC talker WOR, 710 AM..... Bankrupt Nassau's Stations To Get Auctioned - 2/9 - Nassau Broadcasting Partners has asked the US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware to allow it to auction off the company's assets, including all of its radio stations. Princeton NJ-based Nassau was forced into Chapter 7 involuntary bankruptcy in September by a batch of creditors, including Goldman Sachs. Nassau a batch of stations throughout the northeastern USA..... 5's Greg Kelly Cleared Of Rape Charge - 2/8 - Manhattan prosecutors cleared the police commissioner's son of rape Tuesday in a case that gripped the city and threatened his career as host of Fox 5's "Good Day New York." Greg Kelly said he was grateful to be exonerated and promised a rapid return to his anchor chair. More from the NY Daily News..... Phillies Re-Sign With CBS Radio - 2/6 - FMQB tells us that Philadelphia Phillies and CBS Radio's news talk WPHT, 1210 AM, and sports talker WIP, 94.1 FM/610 AM, have announced a multi-year broadcast partnership for live play-by-play coverage of Phillies pre-season, regular season, and post-season games. The new agreement begins in February 2012 with live coverage of the team's spring training camp in Clearwater FL..... Diana Miller Joins 2 - 2/6 - TVSpy tells us that WCBS/Channel 2 has hired Diana Miller as an executive producer in the news department, starting Monday. She most recently was a producer for Anderson Cooper's nationally syndicated daytime talk show..... Aiello Leaves WEMP - 2/3 - Liz Aiello is reportedly out as vice president of programming for Merlin all-newser WEMP, 101.9 FM, in NYC..... Phil Boyce To Salem - 2/2 - Phil Boyce will head the talk radio efforts for Christian-based Salem. Boyce, who used to program NYC talker WABC-AM and later headed programming for Talk Radio Network, will be based out of Salem talker WNYM, 970 AM, in North Jersey..... Stacey Bell To 12 - 2/1 - Stacey Bell joins News 12 Long Island to anchor the weekday evening newscasts alongside Stone Grissom. She was an anchor at Cleveland Fox-affiliate WJW for 14 years before leaving the station in November. Her husband recently accepted a job as the running back coach for the New York Jets..... Copyright Dave Hughes/DCRTV.....

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