About this episode

This episode provides a news brief covering recent developments in the radio industry.

Hello folks, if you do or if we just missed our news cast on the podcast or Radio show this week we have it for you right here as a bonus. We normally put these on YouTube but we did receive a message from our converter scene there was too big to upload, so we will be posing as a bonus episode. Some of stories, including this week are Radio training network acquires three new signals, iHeart, and MapQuest joint forces, and a couple radio stations in Hawaii have seized operations. Also we did discover who will be accompanying the all new Los Angeles FM sports radio the fan lineup starting shortly.

Topics covered

• radio news
• media acquisitions
• broadcasting
• sports radio
• technology updates

Keywords

• radio news
• iHeart
• MapQuest
• Hawaii radio stations
• Los Angeles FM sports radio

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Radio training network, iHeart, MapQuest

Places: Hawaii, Los Angeles

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