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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shaila Scott is a New York legend. The Harlem-bred radio personality got her start working for WBLK in Buffalo in the late '80s before transitioning to WBLS. She later joined the 98.7 KISS FM team in ...

The battle over radio audience measurement that raged five years ago when Portable People Meters replaced paper diaries—a move that minority stations said hurt their ratings—never really went away.

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 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 ...

This morning ESPN Radio announced that its long-in-the-works move to New York’s FM dial would happen as the clock struck midnight Sunday morning, and its landing place is a bit distressing: 98.7, the ...

For those wondering why Shaila Scott hasn’t been on her usual WBLS-FM midday shift for the last few weeks, the radio silence is over. Affectionately known as “New York’s Sweetheart,” Scott announced ...

The urban radio landscape in New York had a major shakeup Thursday (April 26) when Emmis Communications announced that Urban AC WRKS (98.7 Kiss FM) was going to become the FM home for ESPN all-sport… ...