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| It’s Time to Recognize Radio’s Best, Gray, Weil to Co-Chair Radio Ink’s Forecast 2018 |
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| Radio Headlines For Wednesday 5-31-17 |
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 In addition to her Market Manager responsibilities for CBS Radio in Houston, Sarah Frazier has a busy agenda that has her working extra hours advancing the cause for radio. Sarah Frazier is on Radio Ink's 2017 Most Influential Women in Radio list set to be released on June 19. [read more] |
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 The Radio Wayne Awards were started by Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads, 25 YEARS AGO, in honor of "Radio Wayne" Cornils, who set a great example for professionalism in radio. They are presented to superstars whose hard work, dedication, and creativity separate them from the pack. The awards will be presented at the 2017 Radio Show in Austin. Make your nominations HERE. [read more] |
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 Radio Ink is proud to announce that Forecast 2018
will be co-chaired by Mark Gray, CEO of Katz Media Group, and Chris Weil, CEO and chairman of Momentum Worldwide. [read more] |
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 In 29 days, stations will lose network programming from all major companies if they do not re-aim their satellites from AMC-8 to the new AMC-18 at 105 degrees West Longitude. [read more] |
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 Sprint has shifted its advertising business to radio friendly agency Horizon Media. According to Media Post, Spring spent $700 million in advertising in 2016. Mediavest | Spark had been Sprint's ad agency since 2011. [read more] |
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 The streaming service has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by Melissa Ferrick and David Lowery. The suit involves songwriters and publishers whose compositions the service streamed without a license. [read more] |
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 Cortaro Broadcasting, owner of KCKY in Coolidge, Arizona, has some explaining to do with the FCC. After an inspection, the station was hit with a Notice of Violation this week that includes improper fencing at its tower, not operating its AM station at the correct power and the inability to produce EAS logs. The station has 20 days to respond. Read the full notice HERE. [read more] |
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As if pirate radio stations weren't enough of a headache for broadcasters, now they have to worry about amateur radio operators. The Commission wants Lyle Hilden, the licensee of amateur radio station KD6LUL in Vista, California, to provide more information about his operation. [read more] |
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 Another killer week for The Home Depot on the radio as the big-box Home Improvement giant scattered over 86,000 commercials on radio stations all across the country. Lowe's was a distant second, airing 35,334 spots, as the two retailers battle for customers as the summer season gets rolling. [read more] |
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 SVP of Compliance and Industry Relations will be Nicole Kuntz’s full title. She’ll also be the company’s Chief Compliance Officer. Kuntz brings more than 10 years of digital advertising experience to her new position. She is a Certified System Information Auditor. [read more] |
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 Community Broadcasters has a new Market Manager for its Florence, South Carolina market. 30-year media vet Wayne Mulling moves from Lafayette, Louisiana where he was market manager for Cumulus. Mulling has also managed in Florida, Mississippi and Georgia. He replaces Suzy Rufai [read more] |
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 Can a soon-to-be-divorced couple still work successfully on the air? That's what popular Entercom afternoon hosts Stevie G & TPot will soon find out after announcing they are getting separated. Listeners followed them as they dated and then married. Now they will listen as the break apart. They are staying together on the air at Entercom's B97. [read more] |
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 G105, “Raleigh’s No. 1 Hit Music Station,” is extending its agreement with Bob Dumas, on-air morning personality for Bob and The Showgram. The program airs weekdays from 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. In addition, this year marks Dumas’ 25th anniversary broadcasting with G105. [read more] |
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 Does your company or station have a news item you'd like us to run in our morning headlines? Do you have a news tip we need to investigate? Is someone being promoted at your station you'd like to recognize? Send all the details to Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan at edryantheeditor@gmail.com [read more] |
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 If you’re familiar with the reality shows The Bachelor and Bachelorette, the name Kaitlyn Bristowe won’t be unfamiliar to you. Now Bristowe has launched her own podcast, Off the Vine, on PodcastOne. Bristowe will invite celebrities and Bachelor fan-favorites to join her weekly for laughs, fun conversation, and the latest reality TV buzz. [read more] |
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 We previewed this event and now we can tell you that New Country 92.3 raised more than $18,000 for Salvation Army Flood Relief, to benefit Missourians still recovering from the Spring 2017 floods that took place across the state [read more] |
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 There are golf tournaments and then there are golf tournaments. But the American Cancer Society’s 10th Annual Coaches vs. Cancer Las Vegas Golf Classic, May 22-23, was in a league of its own. College basketball coaches from around the US raised over a million dollars net with the event and radio was there to cover it. [read more] |
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 Thanks to Greg Merrill of Media Services Group for sending in this classic of himself from 1974 at KBLW-AM in Logan, Utah. The station was locally owned by a family at the time. We'd love to see your classic photo. Send us YOUR classic photo to
edryantheeditor@gmail.com [read more] |
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