Limbaugh's audience size? It's up in the air

 Limbaugh is widely acknowledged to be the most popular talk-radio host, as evidenced by the record $400 million, eight-year contract he signed with his syndicator last July. But estimates of Limbaugh's...

BBC DJs criticised for promoting booze

BBC DJs and in particular DJ Chris Moyles who hosts Radio 1's flagship morning show, have been criticised in a report by Bristol University for promoting booze culture. When DJ generated comments alone on...

BBC fined 400,000 pounds for fake quizzes

BBc staff Member of one show won price30 Jul 2008 ... Several staff members were disciplined. The BBC said the DJ, who hosts the mid-morning show, was unaware that the caller was not a member of more> " ...

Dog Growls Reveal Size to Human Listeners

The next time your ears are assaulted by a menacing growl, you may want to try to guess the size of the beast. A study has been done on the assessment of interspecies size based on vocal signals. "Lead author Anna...

Radio host James Whale is sacked

A sport radio DJ in the UK has been fired by the BBC after urging his listeners to vote for Boris Johnson in last Thursdays London mayor election."Radio host James Whale has been fired by Talksport after urging...

In the Spotlight: Tim Kretschmann of Pageant Cast

Tim Kretschmann is a radio show host who has launched TKPN, an Internet radio networkthat includes a half-hour weekly program dedicated to beauty pageants called the PageantCast, found online at...

BBC Ends English Shortwave Service in Europe

"PARIS — The BBC World Service, which started its scratchy shortwave transmissions to listeners cut off by “desert, snow and sea” 75 years ago, ended its last English-language shortwave services in Europe on Monday."

BBC Un-censors The Pogues' Christmas classic

UPDATE: Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt has reversed his decision to censor the Pogues Classic ‘Fairytale of New York’ Christmas single after receiving over 3000 emails protesting the decision."BBC Radio 1 has...

Don Imus Returns to Radio

See our previous coverage here and here."Just eight months after he was spectacularly fired from both CBS Radio and MSNBC for making racially and sexually disparaging remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball...

SoundExchange, large music webcasters reach deal to cap royalty fees

"SoundExchange Inc., the group set up by the Recording Industry Association of America to collect royalties for performers and record companies, said it has reached an agreement with the Digital Media Association whose members include large music webcasters, to cap royalty...

Pandora to block non-US listeners

"Web radio station Pandora is to block most non-US users accessing its service because of licensing constraints.  Mounting pressure from record labels has forced the company to stop streaming music to...

Pandora Founder: "RIAA will kill online radio"

I got an email from Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora. He is alarmed by the RIAA's latest tactic:"The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has recently released a revised fee schedule for internet radio. Left unchanged, these rates will end internet radio, period. The RIAA has...

Disney Goes After Blogger For Exposing Pro-Torture Agenda

"it seems a blogger ran a campaign against the Disney-owned radio channel KFSO, which runs a talk show whose host argues that torture is a great things and ridicules torture victims, demands that named journalists...

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