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Regular radioinfo contributor Ian MacRae posts industry news that comes into the categories of rumour, gossip, scandal and radio people behaving badly. Macca encourages you to submit anything you think fits and is keen to receive any feedback on stuff you see here. You can contact him at [email protected]
The scandalous sacking of a high-profile Canadian radio host over his sexual preferences took a a surprising turn, with the broadcaster defending himself online by detailing his preference for consensual "rough sex".
The rumour mill started up when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, released a statement saying its "relationship with Jian...
BBC Radio 1 broke broadcasting guidelines when Lily Allen (pictured) and Ed Sheeran swore on air at the Big Weekend festival, the watchdog Ofcom has said.
Allen swore six times during her performance at the station's event in Glasgow in May, which was broadcast live between 17:30 and 18:00 BST.
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Two gunmen shoved their way into a Mexican radio studio in the state of Sinaloa and opened fire on a local activist, killing him while he was broadcasting. It was the first on-air killing in recent memory in Mexico.
Listeners heard the gunshot that killed Atilano Roman Tirado, who had a weekly radio program as well as leading a group of...
Former Houston all-news radio station KROI (92.1) has switched to a new commercial-free format and is now only playing songs performed by Beyonce.(pictured)
For the past three years KROI (now known as B92 FM) has aired only news-related content, a move which failed to attract a sizable audience.
A statement on the station’s...
A U.K. radio DJ known as Dr Fox (pictured) has been arrested over alleged historical sexual abuse claims.
The DJ, real name Neil Fox, has been taken in by police following allegations of historic sexual assault against two women. Bauer Media, who run Magic, the London radio station on which Fox...
A U.S. federal jury has awarded $1 million to a suburban Kansas City woman falsely described by a radio station as a porn star.
Ashley Patton (pictured) of Olathe, Kansas, sued the owner of 96.5 The Buzz after a DJ identified her on...
A UK radio station has banned all Scottish music until after the independence referendum.
BOB FM in Hertfordshire says it is going "Scot Free" by removing artists like Paolo Nutini (pictured) and Primal Scream from its playlist until after 18 September.
Breakfast show host Graham Mack...
Illicit Caribbean, Hebrew and shock-jock radio stations are hijacking the airwaves in New York City.
Dozens of unlicensed shows operate on an average evening according to the FCC.
Government data shows there were 46 FCC raids in New York City in 2013, compared to just 20 through July 31 of this year because of budget restraints....
A blond Dutch woman named Sabine ran naked through the very crowded Dam Square in the Netherlands' capital city of Amsterdam as part of a radio stunt to earn a year of free schooling.
A video of the stunt has been posted to YouTube (WARNING: Contains graphic content) of the woman stripping off her long blue shirt and running, wearing...
Casey Kasem's body is said to be on the move, again.
Nearly two months after the radio icon's death, a private investigator says his widow is making plans to move his body to a second secret location against his children's wishes.
Logan Clarke, an investigator hired by Kasem's daughter,...
An Australian former radio identity has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a child.
Nicholas Francis O'Callaghan, 53, faced six charges of possessing child abuse material and one count of aggravated indecent assault of a child and one count of indecent assault of a person under the age of 16 years.
The defence team...
The ongoing story of Casey Kasem’s remains has become even weirder with the New York Times quoting a private detective alleging that the reason Jean Kasem flew the body to Montreal, listing a funeral home as the place of disposition, ( even though the funeral home denies receiving the body), is that Montreal is the home town of...
That's what the head of a Washington state funeral home says after reading several news stories that the radio icon's remains went missing.
The Ottawa Citizen reports, Corey Gaffney, President of Gaffney Funeral Home of Tacoma, confirmed the remains arrived in Montreal and reports suggesting the body disappeared are not true.
He...
Casey Kasem, who became known around the world as the host of the syndicated program American Top 40, has been dead for more than a month. And yet he's not been buried and now apparently, in a weird recreation of “A Weekend at Bernie’s”, his body is missing.
Fingers now point in the direction of Casey's widow, Jean. ...
A fist fight at a St. Louis radio station has led to the resignation of the sports-talk station’s president.
Grand Slam Sports president Don Marshall was hospitalized after a fight with KFNS-AM morning host Brian McKenna, who was arrested by police but has not been charged with a crime as city prosecutors continue to review the case.
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Michiel Antonius Adrianus Beelen, better known as Giel Beelen, (pictured) is a Dutch radio-dj who presents the breakfast show Giel! at 3FM from Monday till Friday between 6:00 and 10:00 am.
He’s now broken the record for being continuously on-air and goes into the Guinness Book of Records.
At 05.00 hours...
Former Urban Inspirational-Talk WBOK-New Orleans morning host Gerod Stevens (pictured) was arrested on theft of over $1,500 and forgery charges.
It seems WBOK called the authorities when it found cheques written by clients for advertising spots had allegedly been cashed by Stevens at a cheque cashing store.
Stevens (real name...
The voices of popes from as long ago as 1884 can be heard by the public after the digitising of 8,000 tapes from the Vatican Radio's pontifical archives.
Radio Vatican has been storing up its unique patrimony since it was set up under Pope Pius XI in 1931, but it has also older recordings, such as Leo XIII's Humanum Genus...
A grand jury has indicted longtime New York City DJ Dave Heman (pictured) on charges of attempting to transport a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Herman is best remembered for his many years hosting the then Rock WNEW “Rock & Roll Morning Show” for more than two decades. He was arrested last year for...
It happened at a building that houses several radio stations. Around 8 a.m. Monday, an employee of the Mid America Ag Network arrived and found several items disturbed on the ground floor. Thinking there may have been a burglary, that person began checking other parts of the business. Moments later, a body was discovered in the basement.
Police...
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