Posts Tagged ‘Citadel’

Don Morin has been named general manager of Citadel Broadcasting’s Boise properties, Idaho Radio News has learned. Morin is a familiar face to some of the Citadel die-hards - he previously served with the Boise group as LSM. He’s bounced around the NW with stops at New Northwest in the Tri-Cities and Citadel […]

Related: Behler was Peak’s third choice
© 2008 Idaho Radio News
The battle for the rights to broadcast Boise State University Athletics on a local radio station has been unusually contentious – and public.
Idaho Radio News obtained nearly 200 pages of documents related to Peak Broadcasting’s acquisition of the radio rights to Boise State University sports. […]

More than three years ago, Citadel employees lost their right to look at this site at work. They were told how vile it is - and told not to participate.
I thought that was dumb. This takes the cake though. Citadel employees also can’t check their personal e-mail at work. […]

Citadel Boise market manager Sandy Gamblin has been let go multiple sources confirm to Idaho Radio News. The “why” is unknown, but sources say this is not an amicable parting of ways.
Gamblin came to Citadel Boise from the company’s Reno operation after “the Mikes” (Owens and Sutton) left for Peak last year. No […]

Idaho Daily Statesman reporter/columnist Brian Murphy reports that Citadel will make a 5-minute presentation to the State Board of Education in Idaho Falls today in an effort to reopen the bid. Citadel’s lawyer said there were “some errors” in the selection of Peak - and hopes to re-open bidding. Citadel feels its financial […]

Citadel’s Boise stations are hoping for a shot of non traditional revenue with a new “buy it for half” promotion. It works like this: Clients fork over gift certificates in exchange for radio exposure. The station sells the certificates for half price on its website, gives a cut to the vendor (in this […]

We’ll take our annual look at the contents of local EEO files later this week - but it is always interesting to see which stations are in compliance of the requirements. The EEO files must be posted on station website by June 1.
KIZN - Posted
KZMG - Posted
KRVB - Posted
KSRV - Not posted, out of […]

One more note about the BSU radio rights. Last fall, BSU hosted a big alumni homecoming party at Bodo. Portions of it were broadcast live on KBOI and 24/7 - and two national acts entertained the crowd: Reliant K & Blue Country.
Guess who paid to bring in the bands? Citadel. […]

Local radio groups are jumping on the expo bandwagon in a bigger way - either by putting them on or partnering up.
- KRVB/Idaho’s 94.9 The River and Boise State Radio are the radio sponsors of the “Idaho Green Expo” set for May 17th & 18th. The first-time event will gather together green experts and […]

The Idaho Daily Statesman reported today that Paul J. Schenider will stay with KBOI’s “First Morning News” — but will get a little more time to rest each day. He’ll now start at 6am.
And there’s this odd note:
He said he anticipates participating in pre- and post-game coverage of Boise State.

Media stocks are getting killed lately — especially stocks of companies that are tied to newspapers.
Journal Broadcast Group is no exception — with its stock trading very near its 52-week low of $6.37/share. The stock traded as high as $14 last year.

But… they aren’t alone. Citadel Communications is seeing a similar pattern - […]

EXCLUSIVE
© 2008 Idaho Radio News
Idaho Radio News has obtained a large packet of documents relating to the radio rights process for Boise State University’s football and basketball games - including proposals by Peak Broadcasting, Citadel Broadcasting and Impact Radio (formerly Tester Broadcasting).
The documents outline three very different proposals — and show that only two were […]

Citadel Communications came out with a pretty gloomy fourth quarter revenue result last week — and now the company is already making some cuts — according to FMQB.
“The time for talk is over, and it’s time for the walk,” CEO Farid Suleman saidl. “We have our work cut out in a lot of markets.”
R&R is […]

The Citadel Broadcasting v. Peak Broadcasting et al case won’t settle on March 10th as first thought. The settlement conference set for March 10th has been pushed back to March 27th. No real reason was given - except to not that both parties agreed to the delay.

KTIK Sports Director J Bates blogged about the big Peak v. Citadel rivalry game held last night at Les Bois over at KTIK.COM.

Peak and Citadel like to do battle. On the airwaves, in the offices of advertisers… and latetly — in court. But tonight, the two radio groups will meet up on the ball field - as they battle it out in the Parks & Rec. adult baseball league.
The game’s tonight at Les Bois at 7:45.
A […]

Last month - I asked who you thought would get the BSU radio rights. The clear winner was Citadel - with more than 55% of the vote.
Now, a little different question:

Who should get the BSU radio rights

Citadel

Tester

Peak

They should take them in house

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The Boise Weekly’s Deana Darr has a fantastic piece on the race to land the radio rights to Boise State’s athletic events. I talked to Deana on background last week - and she did a great job chasing down all the players.
First, the headlines:
- Journal Broadcast Group did NOT bid on the rights
- Citadel […]

Citadel Broadcasting’s “Abominable Snowmen” and Peak Broadcasting’s unnamed team competed in the annual Media Ski Race at Bogus Basin Sunday. Paul Blaisdell with Peak took second place in the male snowboard division, and Citadel’s Casey Hiatt took third.
Justin Wilcomb and Dave Mangum with Citadel took first and second in the male skier division, and […]

Melissa Dawn is the only former Peak-er to land at KBOI/News-Talk 670. Greg Williamson id filling in on Idaho’s First Morning News and Idaho Talks Live for Paul J. Schneider. The “Voice of the Broncos” is on the road with the basketball team - and Citadel brought Williamson into pinch hit. Greg […]

Peak Broadcasting’s loss is Citadel’s gain: Melissa Dawn is back on the air. Dawn is now the PM news anchor for KBOI/News-Talk 670, with news updates during the new “live and local” Nate Shelman show. Dawn & Greg Williamson were let go by Peak when they decided to turn KXLT/107.9 Lite FM jockless […]

Peak Broadcasting does not own radio stations in Boise - and doesn’t employ Kevin Godwin.
Instead, Peak Broadcasting of Boise, LLC owns radio stations in Boise, and employs Godwin. That’s the wonderfully convoluted legalese overflowing in the Citadel v. Peak lawsuit.
Peak today replied to Citadel’s earlier demand for a wide range of discovery Citadel asked […]

I threw out the “10 questions” poll the other day not having any idea if anyone would take the time to vote. To my delight, about 90 of you took a few moments.
You think KIZN/Kissin’ 92.3 had the strongest performance in the fall - and will wind up on top of the country roost […]

EXCLUSIVE
After the two parties previously looked like they might be close to settling - the Peak/Citadel lawsuit is heating up - with Citadel charging that Peak is holding back on the discovery phase of the proceedings. Discovery is the process that allows two sides in case to size each other up and inspect any […]

Remember when I complained about the awful, cluttered messy Citadel Boise websites? The wheels were clearly already in motion to reboot the sites on the Mediaspan platform. KBOI.com is the first to launch - though it is very light on local content, and still pales in comparison to the Peak sites - and even […]