RadioInsight for Friday 9 November 2012

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KPOJ Portland To Drop Liberal Talk For Sports

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 01:00 PM PST
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79581/kpoj-portland-to-drop-liberal-talk-for-sports/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kpoj-portland-to-drop-liberal-talk-for-sports

Clear Channel Liberal Talk 620 KPOJ Portland will flip to Sports Fox Sports
620 on Monday, November 12. KPOJ garnered a 1.0 share in the October
ratings, up from a 0.8 in September. It will join a Portland Sports battle
that includes Alpha Broadcastings 750 The Game KXTG and Entercoms 1080 The
Fan KFXX. 620 [...]

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Frank To Return To Concord

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 12:29 PM PST
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79576/frank-to-return-to-concord/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frank-to-return-to-concord

WBIN Media has made its first major programming move since acquiring many
of Nassau Broadcastings New England properties. 99.1 WNNH Henniker/Concord,
which was held in a trust due to a previous restructuring of Nassau that
had placed them over the ownership limits will dropped its placeholder
Classical format and return to Classic Hits as 99.1 [...]

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100.9 Rocks Lynchburg

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 11:00 AM PST
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79573/100-9-rocks-lynchburg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=100-9-rocks-lynchburg

The Lynchburg Radio Group has followed-up last weeks debut of Urban AC Hot
103.9 WXCF with another station launch. 100.9 WIQO Forest VA shifted from
its simulcast of Hot AC 93.7 WKHF to Classic Rock 100.9 Rocks on Thursday
at 5:00pm. The station is focusing on Rock from the 60s through the 80s.

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WBHP Leaves FM In Huntsville For More Christmas

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 07:16 AM PST
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79570/wbhp-leaves-fm-in-huntsville-for-more-christmas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wbhp-leaves-fm-in-huntsville-for-more-christmas

Clear Channel Talk simulcast 1230 WBHP Huntsville and 800 WHOS Decatur AL
have lost their FM translator as 106.5 W293AH shifts to Christmas 106.5.
106.5 continues to be fed by 100.3 WQRV-HD2.

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Carolina Christian Radio Shutters 88.5 The Edge Wilmington

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 01:11 PM PST
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79567/carolina-christian-radio-shutters-88-5-the-edge-wilmington/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=carolina-christian-radio-shutters-88-5-the-edge-wilmington

Carolina Christian Radio has announced today that it will drop the
Christian CHR format of 88.5 The Edge WZDG Scotts Hill/Wilmington NC on
Monday, November 12. Blaming the move on a financial shortfall, CCR will
shift the programming of Christian Preaching/Talk 106.7 The Word WMYT to
88.5 and attempt to sell the commercial 106.7 allocation. [...]