Radio One Regional Vice President, Eddie Harrell, Jr. announced yesterday afternoon that Yonni Rude will be Radio One Cleveland’s new Operations Manager. Yonni Rude will oversee all of the brands in the stations’ cluster which include (WENZ-FM Z107.9, WZAK-FM 93.1, WJMO-FM Praise 94.5 and WERE-AM Newstalk 1490). Jul 12, 2019Publisher
Emmis Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: EMMS) today announced that it has signed an agreement to form a new public company, Mediaco Holding, with New York investment firm Standard General. Mediaco Holding will purchase from Emmis two of its New York radio properties, WBLS-FM, and WQHT-FM (HOT 97). Closing of the transaction is subject to FCC approval and other […]
CUMULUS MEDIA announces that it has promoted veteran radio programming professional Kenny Smoov as Vice President, Urban Formats. In his new role, Smoov will serve as a corporate programming resource for the company’s 37 Urban-formatted stations in 25 markets across the U.S. Smoov joined Cumulus in 2003, and continues in his current roles as Program […]
Cox Enterprises, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell Cox Media Group’s Radio station portfolio as well as its CoxReps and Gamut national advertising businesses to a new broadcasting company that is substantially owned by private equity funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC. The transaction will expand the […]
