22 December 2005 Rejecting GCAP Media's complaints, the U.K’s regulatory body Ofcom is sticking to its plan to open a new national block of digital radio frequencies for...
21 December 2005 A Las Vegas radio station’s scavenger hunt contest ended up with several listeners lost in the desert and five needing rescue. Contestants are looking...
19 December 2005 The New York Daily News is reporting that the former PD of radio WNEW-FM, Frankie Blue (aka Frank Macchiaroli), is being sued by nighttime...
18 December 2005 After two decades, legendary 51 year old shock-jock Howard Stern has departed terrestrial radio for the new frontier of satellite radio. He hosted his...
15 December 2005 The name Infinity Broadcasting in the U.S. is being retired and will become CBS Radio.
11 December 2005 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has announced its Top 25 most-performed Holiday songs for the first five years of the 21st Century...
8 December 2005 Nepal's Supreme Court has now ordered the royalist government to allow a private radio station to relay BBC programs. The government had ordered the...
7 December 2005 To avoid being squelched by satellite radio, conventional broadcasters have joined forces to promote digital programming. Seven top U.S.
6 December 2005 The equivalent to 15,345 years of continuous listening has been consumed via the internet on The BBC Radio Player this year, reports UK Radio.com. ...
6 December 2005 BBC RADIO 2 morning host Terry Wogan has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth. The Irish-born Terry Wogan, now "Sir Terry" was originally tipped to receive...
5 December 2005 A Bridge Ratings study released this week in the U.S. shows that, 12-24 year olds, if given a choice, would choose their MP3 players over...
29 November 2005 Mediamark Research has released its first-ever survey of American children ages 6-11, highlighting their magazine readership, multimedia and product usage, lifestyles and thoughts and feelings....
27 November 2005 The first permanent Islamic radio station to be set up in the UK has been launched in Bradford, northern England. The 24-hour station is...
24 November 2005 The UK’s Capital Radio and Classic FM have decided to sacrifice millions of pounds in revenue by responding to listeners' pleas for fewer commercials and...
23 November 2005 British broadcaster BBC has proposed to pick up an equity stake in a Mumbai-based private broadcaster Radio Mid-Day who run an FM radio station. ...
21 November 2005 GCap Media is planning to switch off the analogue AM transmitters for its radio stations still broadcasting on the AM frequency, such as Capital Gold...
15 November 2005 UK commercial radio stations are attempting to force an investigation into BBC programme budgets. They say they have the right under the UK's Freedom...
15 November 2005 Putting phone calls on the air without the other party's prior consent is strictly taboo, so KZMN in Montana, USA, has copped a $4,000...
14 November 2005 Downloading of podcasts from radio stations actually improves station and program recall by listeners. That’s the finding in a first-of-its-kind study by the...
14 November 2005 It’s the sort of nightmare every radio presenter has...you’re on air from a brand new studio, go into your first break, hit the CD play...
13 November 2005 Talk radio KLIK-Jefferson City reporter James Keown has pleaded innocent to poisoning his wife by spiking her Gatorade with antifreeze and was ordered...
10 November 2005 Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Radio P5 in Denmark will close on November 14. Sky complained that it had been promised 78% coverage of the country...
9 November 2005 The official radio station of South Africa's last all-white enclave has been taken off the air by radio watchdog ICASA for broadcasting without a license....
9 November 2005 The lawyer for Missouri radio host James Keown, accused of poisoning his wife by spiking her Gatorade with antifreeze, is saying Keown was "deeply in...
6 November 2005 The bad boy rapper 50 cent is in trouble with the British radio industry watchdog Ofcom. This follows a profanity filled rant...
6 November 2005 An Illinois radio listener has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role in a bank robbery. This follows the man giving details...
6 November 2005 A South Philadelphia man convicted of hijacking calls to WIOQ (Q102) and indecently assaulting a teenage listener has been sentenced to three to six years...
3 November 2005 The Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, the Kaiser Chiefs and comic/actor Peter Kay will each take over the digital alternative BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC for...
28 October 2005 Hooters Air is a new airline operating mostly U.S. East Coast routes and features quite a few interesting perks including two Hooters girls on each...
27 October 2005 The BBC World Service is closing ten of its radio frequencies and starting an Arabic-language TV news channel. Radio broadcasts in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,...
