“Just four years ago, there were no Black full-time sports hosts on the radio in Detroit,” Parker said. “In a city that’s nearly 80% Black, I looked at that as a problem.” Joining Parker in ownership ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

"Sports Rap Radio," a new format on WXYT 1270-AM featuring a lineup of all-Black hosts, is almost ready to roll. Rob Parker, a former Detroit News columnist who is one of three co-owners of Metro ...

A landmark event in Black history — no, scratch that, American history — will take place in our city Monday morning. And you can listen in. Sports Rap Radio, the nation’s first sports-talk radio ...

When an employee of the KYKC, a country music radio station based in a small southern Oklahoma town, hit send on an email earlier this week responding to a listener's request to hear a new song, they ...

Detroit is set to get a revamped sports talk station when Audacy’s 1270 WXYT flips to Sports Rap Radio with an all-Black lineup of talent. The Detroit News was first to report on the new look sports ...

'I’m proud of the product the staff delivered. But I’m devastated that I couldn’t deliver this for our culture,' says Sports Rap Radio owner, Rob Parker. In June, veteran sports anchor Rob Parker ...

Dax, a Nigerian-Canadian poet and rapper, calls from a phone number with a Wichita, Kansas, area code to speak with The Tennessean about his outsider-to-insider rise in country music's mainstream.

UPDATE (Feb. 3, 2025, 2:00 p.m. ET): Shaboozey failed to win in any of the five categories he was nominated on Sunday night. Shaboozey goes into this Sunday’s Grammy Awards with five nominations, ...

I’ll never forget how my big brother Dave used to scan the dial on our stereo after WILD 1090 AM stopped broadcasting for the day. WILD or AM109, as people often referred to it, had a tiny transmitter ...