US and Canadian Radio

Qsic, based in Melbourne, helped launch Gulp Radio – 7-Eleven’s in-store radio station – in October 2022.

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Is the prize for the secret sound, discounts for Slurpees?

This Open Letter to iHeartMedia, the largest radio company in the US, has gone viral as it and the other large US radio owners have enacted another round of massive employee layoffs over the past couple of weeks.

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Great article. Really nailed it I think.

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iHeart’s top 40 station in Miami Y100 has had a minor logo tweak. looks like they are pushing fm over streaming. on air they are still saying calling the station y100

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From a few weeks ago. A tribute to Elvis Duran - still going strong. He’s been on z100 since 1989. I remember hearing a California Aircheck of his back in 1992 with the Z Morning ZOO and it sounded so schmicko.

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This was WCBS-AM’s final closedown…

… and another legacy name would be gone by the New Year: KGO-AM in San Francisco is to change its call letters to its conservative news/talk sister, KSFO. It’s a reversal of the former’s format transition to sports betting 2 years ago. The original KSFO would become KZAC.

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A subcommittee working in tandem with the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has called the CEOs of two US media organisations, PBS and National Public Radio (NPR), to testify over what it calls “systemically biased content.”

The subcommittee, led by chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, on Monday sent letters to PBS’s Paula Kerger and NPR’s Katherine Maher saying it wanted to “better understand [their] position[s] on providing Americans with accurate information.”

The hearings are slated to take place next month, with Taylor Greene describing them as an opportunity for the organisations to “explain to Congress and the American people why federal funds should be used for public television – particularly the sort of content produced by [PBS and NPR].”

I’d say her salary is a waste of taxpayers dollars, maybe she can explain herself? :rofl:

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They don’t give three letter calls out anymore :cry:

Haven’t done so for years. Only if its already out there a d there is a historical link between the station and the call letters.

Example, when WJW Cleveland radio and TV got split up and WJW TV became WJKW. A few years later they got their WJW calls back IIRC.

Similarly, it also happened to KHJ-AM in LA - they had the callsign KKHJ, but the format was Spanish, and when you say KKHJ in Spanish dialects, it sounds like the Spanish word for shit. So they made their case to the FCC and they got KHJ back.

Not just NPR… KCBS-AM in LA is under FCC investigation for tracking ICE operations.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told Fox News that the commission had sent a formal letter of inquiry to [KCBS] in response to its Jan. 26 discussion of ICE operations, which he called “really concerning.” He said that the station had a matter of days left to explain “how this could possibly be consistent with their public interest obligations” under their FCC license.

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On Jan. 26, the host of “KCBS Radio Weekend News” shared the location of agents and the vehicles they were in based on information from the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County, a community organization developed to protect immigrant families from deportation threats.

“The County’s Response Network says agents in San Jose were in unmarked vehicles,” the host said, describing the color, make and model of the vehicles before listing the streets and locations where they were spotted. “Stay with KCBS, we’ll be tracking it for you.”

Say goodbye to the license…Trumpy will make sure of that.

Apparently VOA and RFE are now too “far-left” and need to be shut down, despite being set up as checks notes state-owned media outlets to counter Soviet propaganda in the Cold War:

RT and CGTN must be laughing in their head offices… And if that many media outlets - from state-owned, to public broadcasting, to the commercials - are “left and radical” as in daring to criticize you, maybe you are the problem here :wink:

Also (probably more suited to the US Politics thread) God, what a [censored] [censored] [censored] that Musk is!

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It also contradicts Elon Musk’s own “free speech absolutist” idea for his social media platform X. Free speech includes criticism of Musk and Trump, whether or not they like it.

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Musk and Trump coming soon in Dumb and Dumber 3: Stock Up On Canned Goods.

Fucking idiots.

I bet no one told them what they do and how they can be used to generate good publicity for themselves and the US, and now they’re letting his mates (Ras)Putin and Winnie The Yi blather on about how great they are.

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It’s straight out of the Putin playbook, shut down any media that criticises the fragile ego psychos.