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A drop in the ratings has led to a drop in salary for Glenn Ordway. According to industry sources, the longtime WEEI host had his reported $1 million annual salary cut in half by station owner Entercom earlier this month. The company took advantage of a clause in the contract Ordway signed in January 2009 that gave it an out if his afternoon drive program, "The Big Show," failed to meet a certain standard in the Arbitron ratings. Sources said Entercom could opt out of the contract if "The Big Show" failed to finish among the top three stations in the Boston market for a particular...

Gil Santos told his bosses at 98.5 The Sports Hub and CBS Radio following Super Bowl XLVI in February that he wanted to return in the fall for a 36th season of calling Patriots games on the radio. But a serious health scare may prevent him from doing so. Santos has been battling a severe case of pneumonia for much of the winter. According to industry sources, Santos, a longtime smoker who turns 72 Monday, was in such dire condition at one point that he lost feeling in his extremities and had to be put in a medically induced coma.

NEW YORK -- CBS Corp.'s radio division sued Howard Stern yesterday, claiming its former star shock jock breached his contract with them when he moved to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. The lawsuit, which also names Sirius and Stern's agent as defendants, claims Stern improperly used CBS radio's air time to promote his new show with Sirius, which began last month. CBS also claims Stern discussed his plans with Sirius without disclosing them to CBS as his contract required.

They are New England's voices of autumn, Gil and Gino, their surnames well known yet unnecessary thanks to their 28 years - the last 21 consecutively - as the Patriots' radio broadcast team. Gil Santos, the play-by-play voice with the golden baritone, and Gino Cappelletti, the analyst and classy Patriots legend, have long been the trusted game-time audio companions for Patriots fans charged with raking leaves or driving around on errands or simply for those who sometimes prefer the theater of the mind to the theater in the living room.

NEW YORK - Lane Venardos, executive producer of the "CBS Evening News" in the 1980s and later the network's vice president for hard news, overseeing its coverage of the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the Persian Gulf war a year later, died last Friday at his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 67. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Kelly Venardos-Ward said. Mr. Venardos started out in broadcast journalism at the Chicago radio station WBBM in the late 1960s. His 30-year career with CBS began in 1971, when he came to New York as a producer of special events for...

Gil Santos told his bosses at 98.5 The Sports Hub and CBS Radio following Super Bowl XLVI in February that he wanted to return in the fall for a 36th season of calling Patriots games on the radio. But a serious health scare may prevent him from doing so. Santos has been battling a severe case of pneumonia for much of the winter. According to industry sources, Santos, a longtime smoker who turns 72 Monday, was in such dire condition at one point that he lost feeling in his extremities and had to be put in a medically induced coma.

They are New England's voices of autumn, Gil and Gino, their surnames well known yet unnecessary thanks to their 28 years - the last 21 consecutively - as the Patriots' radio broadcast team. Gil Santos, the play-by-play voice with the golden baritone, and Gino Cappelletti, the analyst and classy Patriots legend, have long been the trusted game-time audio companions for Patriots fans charged with raking leaves or driving around on errands or simply for those who sometimes prefer the theater of the mind to the theater in the living room.

NEW YORK -- When it comes to finding a permanent replacement for fired radio personality Don Imus, only one thing appears certain: David Lee Roth is not a candidate. Two months after Imus's ignominious exit from WFAN-AM (and his syndicated outlets), a variety of fill-ins have rolled through the revolving door at the sports radio station: tennis great John McEnroe, NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, Chicago radio morning man Mike North. Comedian Dennis Miller and radio host Mancow Muller were broached as possible successors, while others...

They are New England's voices of autumn, Gil and Gino, their surnames well known yet unnecessary thanks to their 28 years - the last 21 consecutively - as the Patriots' radio broadcast team. Gil Santos, the play-by-play voice with the golden baritone, and Gino Cappelletti, the analyst and classy Patriots legend, have long been the trusted game-time audio companions for Patriots fans charged with raking leaves or driving around on errands or simply for those who sometimes prefer the theater of the mind to the theater in the living room.

Don Imus overcame a major obstacle yesterday in his widely expected comeback bid, reaching a settlement with his former employer that allows him to return to the airwaves at a new station four months after he made a sexist and racist remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Imus and CBS Radio agreed to a settlement that preempts the fired radio personality's threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, the company and Imus's attorney said in a statement.

They are New England's voices of autumn, Gil and Gino, their surnames well known yet unnecessary thanks to their 28 years - the last 21 consecutively - as the Patriots' radio broadcast team. Gil Santos, the play-by-play voice with the golden baritone, and Gino Cappelletti, the analyst and classy Patriots legend, have long been the trusted game-time audio companions for Patriots fans charged with raking leaves or driving around on errands or simply for those who sometimes prefer the theater of the mind to the theater in the living room.

A drop in the ratings has led to a drop in salary for Glenn Ordway. According to industry sources, the longtime WEEI host had his reported $1 million annual salary cut in half by station owner Entercom earlier this month. The company took advantage of a clause in the contract Ordway signed in January 2009 that gave it an out if his afternoon drive program, "The Big Show," failed to meet a certain standard in the Arbitron ratings. Sources said Entercom could opt out of the contract if "The Big Show" failed to finish among the top three stations in the Boston market for a...

NEW YORK - Lane Venardos, executive producer of the "CBS Evening News" in the 1980s and later the network's vice president for hard news, overseeing its coverage of the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the Persian Gulf war a year later, died last Friday at his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 67. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Kelly Venardos-Ward said. Mr. Venardos started out in broadcast journalism at the Chicago radio station WBBM in the late 1960s. His 30-year career with CBS began in 1971, when he came to New York as a...

Don Imus overcame a major obstacle yesterday in his widely expected comeback bid, reaching a settlement with his former employer that allows him to return to the airwaves at a new station four months after he made a sexist and racist remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Imus and CBS Radio agreed to a settlement that preempts the fired radio personality's threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, the company and Imus's attorney said in a statement.

NEW YORK -- When it comes to finding a permanent replacement for fired radio personality Don Imus, only one thing appears certain: David Lee Roth is not a candidate. Two months after Imus's ignominious exit from WFAN-AM (and his syndicated outlets), a variety of fill-ins have rolled through the revolving door at the sports radio station: tennis great John McEnroe, NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, Chicago radio morning man Mike North. Comedian Dennis Miller and radio host Mancow Muller were broached as possible successors, while others...

NEW YORK -- CBS Corp.'s radio division sued Howard Stern yesterday, claiming its former star shock jock breached his contract with them when he moved to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. The lawsuit, which also names Sirius and Stern's agent as defendants, claims Stern improperly used CBS radio's air time to promote his new show with Sirius, which began last month. CBS also claims Stern discussed his plans with Sirius without disclosing them to CBS as his contract required.

An oft-cited reason for WEEI's recent struggles in its sports-radio showdown with 98.5 The Sports Hub is its lack of an FM signal. As of Monday, that reason will no longer exist. And neither will Mike FM. Industry sources have confirmed that Entercom, WEEI's parent company, will announce this morning that WEEI (850 AM) will begin simulcasting on WMKK (93.7), better known as the pop-rock station Mike FM. Entercom owns four stations in the Boston market: WEEI (850), WMKK (93.7)