Posts tagged with 'AM radio'

 

‘The Game’ is back in San Francisco thanks to Entercom.

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Entercom has launched a new sports outlet, “1550 The Game” KGMZ San Francisco, which will simulcast programming content from “95.7 The Game” KGMZ-FM. The new “Game” in town will also air Oakland A’s baseball when there is a conflict with Golden State Warriors basketball on KGMZ-FM.

“With the overlap of play-by-play between our athletic partners, we launched sports content on the AM frequency to provide our fans with more options to listen to all of their favorite games,” senior VP/market manager Gregory Nemitz said. “This also gives us the opportunity in the future to create additional exclusive programming on 1550-AM to super serve Bay Area sports fans.”

The weekday on-air lineup now heard on both “95.7 The Game” and “1550 The Game” features: Joe Fortenbaugh, Lorenzo Neal and Dan Dibley (6-10am); Matt Steinmetz & Daryle “The Guru” Johnson (10am-12pm); “The Greg Papa Show” with Greg Papa and Bonta Hill (12-3pm)
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State Lawmaker Asks FCC To Revoke St. Louis Station’s License.

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A Missouri state lawmaker is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to revoke the license of a St. Louis radio station for racist and offensive comments made by one of its hosts. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis) has sent a letter to FCC chair Ajit Pai accusing Entertainment Media Trust classic country/talk KQQZ (1190) of violating the FCC’s rules against obscenity, indecency and profanity.

At issue are comments made by Bob Romanik, host of “Kool Killer Kountry,” who is known for using the n-word and “various misogynistic and homophobic slurs over the years,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Romanik made headlines in recent days after Rep. Bob Burns (D-St. Louis County) called into the show and defended the host, triggering a backlash and calls for Burns to resign.

An excerpt from the show posted on YouTube includes Romanik talking about “a movement for the white people.” In the snippet, Burns said he listened to the s
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Hurricane Maria: The Importance Of AM Radio.

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When the power goes out, a $5 transistor radio is more valuable than a $500 smartphone. That is certainly a lesson learned from last September’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, which left residents with a single source of information: AM radio. Just how valuable it became is the subject of an in-depth feature in Columbia Journalism Review, titled “After Hurricane Maria, AM radio makes a comeback in Puerto Rico.”

As the hurricane approached last fall, many television stations knew they would lose power and actually shuttered during the storm. Wifi was decimated, leaving “old-fashioned” radio as the single media lifeline. “Maria erased the world of journalism in Puerto Rico,” says Carolina Rodriguez Plaza, production manager for the news team at WORA-TV Mayagüez. “It reemerged in a new form, with radio playing an important role.”

As Hurricane Maria’s 150-mile-per-hour winds toppled power lines and torrential rains grounded out the is
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