Once the nation's foremost rock station, WNEW-FM announced a new format Thursday, creating an identity as "102.7 Blink" with a mix of music, entertainment news and celebrity gossip. "Just like all ...

When WNEW-FM became Blink 102.7 this April, the station that mixed music with celebrity gossip conceived a quirky ad slogan to lure listeners: "Blink or you'll miss it." They did. New Yorkers totally ...

Taking some good advice? See the RBR observations: (7/11/07 RBR #134), (2/6/08 RBR #25). It would be great to see this on their main signal, but a good start nonetheless: CBS Radio’s WNEW made its ...

AS RECENTLY AS 1995, the verdict was in: Classic rock radio, like the dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 65 million years before it, was extinct. WNEW (102. 7 FM), which had built a 25-year franchise on ...

Prologue Rarely had anyone seen Mel Karmazin so angry. Before him on his nearly bare desk, open to a page of dry statistical columns, lay the latest Arbitron ratings. They showed that WKTU, a station ...

Baltimore is going to have a new all-news radio station. Or part of one, anyway. WNEW-FM (99.1), a CBS-owned Washington-oriented station, is repositioning itself as a Maryland station focused on ...

WNEW in Maryland and D.C.? WHFS in Florida? Those are among the outcomes of format changes reflected in the latest list of call letter moves at the Federal Communications Commission. (CBS, as we’ve ...

If you like listening to perpetual traffic updates during your commutes to and from work, then you've got a new radio option. If you like listening to perpetual traffic updates during your commutes to ...

WNEW-FM is back. Again. Only this time it’s not on “regular” radio. As of Monday, it’s on the 102.7 FM frequency of HD radio, which requires buying an HD radio receiver. It’s also being streamed on ...