Bawdy Tampa radio host Bubba the Love Sponge is trying to lure Casey Anthony's parents to appear for $25,000. ...more

October 24, 2009

Longtime Tampa radio personality and jazz buff Pat Chamburs died Sunday at age 84 at his home in St. Pete Beach after a lengthy illness. ...more

April 14, 2009

Record-breaking rapper Flo Rida rolls through his home state. ...more

March 3, 2009

Longtime Tampa radio disc jockey "Marvelous Marvin" Boone has been let go by WRBQ, 104.7 FM, the victim of budget cuts. ...more

October 23, 2008

Tampa's NewsTalk 1040 moved down the dial and up in power Monday. The locally based Genesis Communications moved the programming that was aired on WWBA, 1040 AM, to the newly acquired WMGG, 820 AM. ...more

September 30, 2008

Plant City Photo Archives and television station WUSF, Channel 16, have won a 2008 Silver Telly Award for the documentary "Plant City Goes to War." ...more

July 30, 2008

Radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem broadcast phone messages from a man insulting wrestler Hulk Hogan and his family, saying he wants his audience to know more about the people suing over an accident involving Hogan's son. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA - Radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem offered today 30 minutes of free airtime to a conservative Christian group that protests homosexuality at soldiers' funerals. Clem invited Shirley Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., to appear on his morning broadcast in exchange for Phelps' promise not to protest during the Jacksonville funeral of Spc. Quincy J. Green, who died Monday in Iraq. ...more

June 12, 2008

Having survived numerous close calls in the voting this season, "American Idol" finalist Syesha Mercado is scheduled to make a triumphant hometown visit today. ...more

May 9, 2008

TAMPA - "American Idol" finalist Syesha Mercado, 21, is coming home to Sarasota on Friday for a free public concert, a visit to Tampa radio and TV stations and to sing the national anthem at a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game. ...more

May 8, 2008