Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frankie Crocker built the legacy that WBLS will be celebrating with DJ Cassidy and Chuck Chillout in honor of the station's 50th ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York City radio station WBLS continued to celebrate its 50th anniversary with DJ Cassidy and DJ Cassidy’s Pass the Mic Live, an event featuring legendary R&B and hip-hop artists at Newark’s ...

Superhero DJ Jon Quick of WBLS 107.5 in New York City is the creator and co-host of AfroFlava Radio, a new Afrobeat-themed show and a proud member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Rolling out sat down ...

After 30 years as spirited and often ferocious rivals, WBLS (107.5 FM) and WRKS (98.7 FM, Kiss-FM) will become one. In a turn as sudden and stunning as the Yankees merging with the Mets, the city’s ...

It’s not the last we’ve heard from Shaila Scott. The longtime New York City radio personality, who was fired after nearly 30 years on air, has filed a lawsuit against WBLS for discrimination and ...

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… ...

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 ...

Vaughn Harper, the signature voice for WBLS radio in New York and a pioneer of the "Quiet Storm" programming format, dies at 71. By Gail Mitchell Vaughn Harper, a veteran WBLS New York personality who ...

When legendary WBLS DJ Frankie Crocker broke McFadden & Whitehead’s “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” — the 1979 Philly soul classic that has provided the soundtrack to many a cookout — he might as well have ...