A Buffalo morning show radio host is out of a job over racist comments he made on-air.
 
In the segment, the hosts discussed the skin colour of various famous black women in relation to the darkness of toast one of the hosts prefers.
 
After a public outcry, sponsors began to announce they were ending their contracts with the station...

Rock WAPL-FM, Appleton, Wisconsin morning personality Len Nelson (pictured) has been suspended indefinitely by station owner Woodward Communications for a now-deleted message he posted to his personal Facebook page that was critical of the late legendary broadcaster Rush Limbaugh. Nelson blamed Limbaugh for causing “damage to public discourse in...

The UK government has cancelled its initial plan of completely discontinuing the use of FM and AM radio stations and replacing them strictly with DAB digital radio. Licenses for analogue radio stations will now be given an extension of 10 years, according to a government statement.
 
This will allow older cars with radio systems...

In a complaint filed in Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois, WLS-AM, Chicago morning drive personality Erich “Mancow” Muller is being sued by James MacDonald, the former pastor of the Harvest Bible Chapel church. MacDonald is seeking $50,000 in compensatory damages and punitive damages to be determined at trial. 
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A community radio station which broadcast an advert for a supermarket’s new sandwich in its news bulletin has been ruled in breach of the Ofcom code.
 
Radio St Austell Bay in Cornwall included promotion for Morrisons’ new ‘Ham, egg and chips’ flavoured sandwich in the 11am bulletin with the newsreader saying: “Supermarket...

The annual planting of flags representing each of the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attack was threatened this year by the city of Des Moines claiming a lack of enough flags and volunteers.
 
Confronted with the city's claim, afternoon host on news-talk WHO, Simon Conway, determined not to allow anything to stand in the way of the...

The UK’s Capital network has been found in breach of two Ofcom rules for broadcasting a pre-recorded offensive item twice in the same breakfast show.
 
Content with the offensive language, (an F bomb), was broadcast in a segment at 6.10am, for which the breakfast presenter apologised.
 
The exact same content, a prank call, was then broadcast again at 8.15...

A Florida radio station is in the news again thanks to a controversial contest.
 
For the second year in a row, Fort Myers's 103.9 is giving away a round of in vitro fertilization for a couple struggling with infertility.
 
The man behind the giveaway, host Jason “Big Mama” Jones said that he and his wife came up with the...

A British radio presenter who left her show while it was on air and was found dead at home hours later had taken her own life, an inquest has heard.
 
Vicki Archer, 41, left work mid-shift during the BBC radio drivetime show.
 
She had emailed a colleague at BBC Radio Shropshire to say she was feeling upset and left about...