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After nearly eight months of negotiations and regulatory review, Vox Communications Group has completed the purchase of seven Vermont radio stations from media conglomerate Clear Channel.

The $11 million deal, which closed July 25, includes four Burlington-area stations — Star WEZF-FM 92.9; Kiss WVTK-FM 92.1; Champ WCPV-FM 101.3; and WXZO-FM 96.7.

First announced in January, the purchase reunites Ken Barlow of South Burlington with WCPV, which he launched in the 1990s. Barlow’s Dynacomm group sold the station, along with WXPS (now WXZO), to Capstar Radio in 1999.... Read more

Where can you hear interviews with Oliver North or Noam Chomsky — then a show called “Music to Go to the Dump By”? Which station on your radio dial will still “interrupt music programming to tell you about a lost collie”?... Read more

BURLINGTON — Autism Spectrum Disorder affects approximately one in every 150 young children in America. In Vermont, the numbers are worse. ASD diagnoses in the Green Mountain State have increased by 20 percent per year since 1997 — compared to the national figure of between 10 and 17 percent.... Read more

Radio is a sound salvation. Radio is cleaning up the nation. Unlikely as it may seem, the lyrics to the chorus of Elvis Costello’s 1978 anti-establishment single “Radio Radio” may be more relevant now than they were nearly 30 years ago. Especially given the slow but unmistakable decline in the importance of traditional radio. To borrow a phrase, video killed the radio star. Then file sharing killed the video star. Now a host of auditory options, from satellite radio to iTunes, are vying to become the next techno-gladiator to dominate an increasingly crowded aural arena.... Read more

BURLINGTON — Nearly eight years after opening his downtown Burlington coffeehouse, Radio Bean owner Lee Anderson finally has a broadcast license to legitimize the word “radio” in its name. About two months ago, WOMM-LP, better known to local radio heads as “The Radiator,” began broadcasting 100 watts of locally produced content at 105.9 FM.... Read more

MIDDLEBURY — Jeff Beattie was driving toward Middlebury to visit his father at Porter Hospital on October 22* — the day a freight train derailed near downtown and effectively shut down every road through the burg.... Read more

“Why is it the good people that make your life full of joy are always the first ones to go?”

A MySpace user who identified himself as “Cody F” posed that query about Gerald “G.G.” Griggs two days after Griggs, a popular on-air personality at St. Albans’ WLFE country radio, died in a car crash. He was 50.... Read more

The year was 1996. Bill Clinton was celebrating the first days of his second presidential term with . . . um, cigars. Jamaican port authorities opened fire on Jimmy Buffett’s seaplane, “mistaking” it for a drug trafficking aircraft — with U2 singer/messianic wannabe Bono aboard, no less. MC Hammer, perhaps not quite legit enough to quit, filed for bankruptcy. Tupac Shakur “died” from gunshot wounds outside a Las Vegas hotel. The Pogues, Jawbreaker and The Ramones all disbanded.... Read more

The year was 1982. A postage stamp cost 20 cents. A gallon of gas, $1.30. Michael Jackson was thrilling Pretty Young Things across the globe, and Steven Spielberg introduced us to a telephone-savvy alien with a glowing finger. Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs, and John Belushi died from an overdose. Meanwhile, from a ramshackle studio in a tiny wooden building at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, a woolly bearded DJ from the Bronx was about to embark on a journey that would take him — and anyone else who would listen — back to the heyday of rock ’n’ roll.... Read more

Lisa Rubin has a whole lot to say about table decoration, the evolution of chickens and spice blends that transform drab dishes with their zingy ethnic flavors. She dishes it out - live - every Tuesday on her gabby gastronomic radio show, "Food for Thought," on WGDR.... Read more