After ESPN Radio’s announcement that it is leasing Emmis’ 98.7 frequency in NYC–Urban AC WRKS-FM NY (KISS FM), KISS and Inner City Broadcasting’s Urban AC/Classic R&B WBLS began simulcasting at 10AM 4 ...

During the most of the 1970s and early 1980s, when the late radio personality Frankie Crocker would conclude his late afternoon/early evening shift on New York City powerhouse FM outlet WBLS, he would ...

The reign of one of the nation’s best-known R&B radio stations, New York City’s WRKS, 98.7 KISS FM, is over. It will merge with longtime rival 107.5 WBLS, station management revealed. KISS FM owner ...

The news for WBLS (107.5 FM) was positive in the July Arbitron radio ratings, and any good news for black radio these days is encouraging. In three ratings months since WBLS merged with the late WRKS ...

*New York, NY — Imhotep Gary Byrd’s longtime WLIB talk show “GBE Mind Flight,” a weekly Sunday mix of news, talk and music heard from 9:00pm to 12:00 midnight and featuring leading Black journalists ...

WQHT-FM HOT 97, #1 for Hip Hop and WBLS-FM 107.5, #1 for R&B surpass original goals of 97,000 and 107,000 meals, respectively, for Food Bank For New York City with a whopping grand total of more than ...

Emmis Communications, the radio and publishing company which owns WQHT (Hot 97) in New York, has announced a deal with YMF Media to purchase two New York radio stations -- WBLS 107.5 FM (the No. 2… By ...