Start off with attention-gripping theme music that alerts listeners to the top headlines. Add news items so short that the station is basically a headline service. Give your new all-news radio station ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) – Officials made a major announcement Friday involving all-news radio station, WNEW. Bloomberg Media is taking over the station, which has had trouble attracting listeners for years ...

Taking some good advice? See the RBR observations: (7/11/07 RBR #134), (2/6/08 RBR #25). It would be great to see this on their main signal, but a good start nonetheless: CBS Radio’s WNEW made its ...

Radio station WNEW made its local debut Sunday afternoon, bringing news, weather and traffic reports to Washington’s airwaves and a question to mind: Can a second station broadcasting news, weather ...

WNEW in Maryland and D.C.? WHFS in Florida? Those are among the outcomes of format changes reflected in the latest list of call letter moves at the Federal Communications Commission. (CBS, as we’ve ...

When WNEW-FM became Blink 102.7 this April, the station that mixed music with celebrity gossip conceived a quirky ad slogan to lure listeners: "Blink or you'll miss it." They did. New Yorkers totally ...

AS THE only station broadcasting from inside the New Jersey courtroom where Bruno Richard Hauptmann was on trial for the kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh’s infant son, New York radio ...

“Everybody thinks of radio as NBC,” complained talkative, high-strung Bernice Judis. “That’s silly. CBS doesn’t like it—and neither do we.” She was speaking for her own station, Manhattan’s successful ...

Baltimore is going to have a new all-news radio station. Or part of one, anyway. WNEW-FM (99.1), a CBS-owned Washington-oriented station, is repositioning itself as a Maryland station focused on ...