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KQV radio, the historic local “all news/all the time” AM station that has been broadcasting for nearly a century, intends to go off the air at the end of the night Dec. 31. Station general manager and owner Robert W. Dickey Jr. said he delivered the news Friday morning to his staff of about 20 in the KQV office at Centre City Tower, Downtown. “Candidly, I think it’s a sad day for broadcasting,” Mr. Dickey told the Post-Gazette afterward. “It’s fair to say we’ve been trying to provide a community service. The bottom line is I just can’t sustain the...

The final stories covered by FM News 101.9 (WEMP-FM, New York) and FM News 101.1 (WIQI-FM, Chicago) announced format changes for the respective stations. “Effective immediately, Alternative is back on the air in New York as New Rock 101.9 and Adult Hits are on the air in Chicago as i101. It was a difficult decision to make, but after a year of minimal audience engagement, coupled with the format’s inherent expense, I felt it was time to make a change.” stated Randy Michaels, CEO of Merlin Media. “I’d like to thank the people who poured their heart and soul into...

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I would like to find a decent news radio site to listen to during the day. One that carries Rush Limbaugh. All the sites I've been to recently require me to down load some spy-ware plug-in just to listen to a windows media stream. They didn't use to require this and the streaming quality was just fine. I listen at work so I can't just down load plug-ins willy-nilly. I'd like to just find a site's URL that I can drop into Windows Media Player's open URL and it just play. Without it then opening up a browser window forcing...