3rd Annual Homelessness Marathon
Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2000 by admin
Story Link: homelessnessmarathon.org
The Third Annual Homelessness Marathon will begin at 7pm EST today, Tuesday January 25th. It will air on more than fifteen radio stations heard in more than twenty cities. For a list of participating stations go to www.homelessnessmarathon.org
Host "Nobody" will broadcast from a site outdoors in Champaign, Illinois for fourteen (14) hours overnight to dramatize the plight of those with nowhere to go in the cold. The temperature is predicted to get down to zero degrees.
Wired Over Low Power Ruling
Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2000 by admin
Story Link: Boston Globe
The local public-access radio community is excited and cautiously optimistic about this week's Federal Communications Commission ruling that it would begin to license noncommercial low-power (under 100 watts) FM radio stations in May.
"It's a good thing," says Stephen Proviser, founder of Radio Free Allston and director of the citywide Citizens' Media Corp. The ruling will allow two categories of small stations (up to 10 watts and up to 100 watts) to broadcast legally in the spaces between larger stations' frequencies.
"It's still a secondary service, subject to the overwhelming power of the larger stations," says Proviser, noting that the new stations must be two channels (or frequency decimal points) away from existing commercial stations.
Citadel Buys Bloomington
Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2000 by admin
Story Link: Yahoo News
Mid-sized market radio broadcaster Citadel Communications Corp. said that its Citadel Broadcasting Co. agreed to buy Bloomington Broadcasting, the owner of 20 radio stations in five mid-sized markets, for about $176 million cash.
Citadel Broadcasting is the principal operating unit of Bloomington, Illinois-based Citadel Communications Corp. Upon completion of this and other pending transactions, Citadel will own or operate 136 FM and 60 AM radio stations in 42 mid-sized markets.
Citadel will add WKLQ-FM, WLAV-FM, WODJ-FM and WBBL-AM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the nation's 66th largest market; WOMG-FM, WTCB-FM, WLXC-FM and WISW-AM in Columbia, South Carolina, the nation's 88th largest market; WKOS-FM, WQUT-FM, WGOC-AM, WJCW-AM and WKIN-AM in Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, Tennessee, the nation's 95th largest market; WOGT-FM, WSKZ-FM and WGOW-AM/FM in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the nation's 102nd largest market; and, WBNQ-FM, WBWN-FM and WJBC-AM in Bloomington, Illinois, the nation's 230th largest market.
Time Warner/EMI Merge
Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2000 by admin
Story Link: Yahoo News
Britain's EMI Group Plc and Time Warner Inc said they were merging their music businesses to create the world's top record company, worth $20 billion, with a powerful presence on the Internet.
"This reduces the number of top labels to four, which puts even more power over music distribution in the hands of a few," said Kevin Hause, an analyst with International Data Corp.