Citadel Media is an American radio network owned and operated by Citadel Broadcasting. It currently controls many of the assets of the former ABC Radio Networks, which Citadel bought in June 2007. Prominent programming heard through Citadel includes Mark Levin, Don Imus, and (by agreement with Premiere Radio Networks) Sean Hannity.
The network adopted its current name in April 2009, after licensing the "ABC Radio Networks" name from The Walt Disn...
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Citadel Media is an American radio network owned and operated by Citadel Broadcasting. It currently controls many of the assets of the former ABC Radio Networks, which Citadel bought in June 2007. Prominent programming heard through Citadel includes Mark Levin, Don Imus, and (by agreement with Premiere Radio Networks) Sean Hannity.
The network adopted its current name in April 2009, after licensing the "ABC Radio Networks" name from The Walt Disney Company for nearly two years.
Citadel Media/ABC Radio has its origins in an early network set up by WJZ in New York which provided programs to other stations over Western Union lines.
WJZ (originally owned by Westinghouse) and its network were absorbed into the National Broadcasting Company in 1927; WJZ's network was known as the Blue Network while WEAF's was known as the "Red Network." The two NBC networks were both owned by the Radio Corporation of America, but were forced to separate when the Federal Communications Commission declared...
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