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As more and more markets become part of the PPM measured world, we continue to grapple with the impact of the methodology on radio formats. Clearly, there are many morning personalities getting less sleep, not to mention radio pros who have labored away in Smooth Jazz formats over the past many years only to find their stations becoming casualties (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Q: I deal with a lot of broadcasters, radio folks who have clients and advertising agencies. What process should a broadcaster go through to develop more meaningful marketing for its clients? A: If I was working at a radio station right now, I would focus on trying to really understand the listeners who are coming in, and I don’t mean the basic demographics, but going deeper in understanding some of the psychographics (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) The migration to digital will deconsolidate broadcast radio -- Next Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission will reveal the entirety of its National Broadband Plan, over a year in the making. Required by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which authorized $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus spending, The Plan will weigh in on about a thousand broadband related subjects - how to help more people get it, how to help industries provide it, ways to encourage innovations that the FCC hopes will stimulate more broadband adoption, like IP video. The chances are, though, that it won’t have much to say about radio (read more - Radio Survivor) The Angry Left Joins Talk Radio (read more - Bob Tyrrell - Jewish World Review) The NFL has announced a 4-year deal with a wireless provider that will result in Sunday and Thursday night games being streamed on certain mobile devices from the NBC-TV or NFL Network feeds. Incredible as it may seem, this deal is estimated to be valued at more than $100,000,000 (read more - Dave Kohl) Greater Media has named Trip Savery Director of Sales of the company's Charlotte-based cluster Nielsen adds Sunrise Broadcasting of New York to its list of radio clients that also includes: Cumulus, Clear Channel, ESPN, Maverick Media, Black Crow (Rocket City Broadcasting) Steven Waldman, Senior Advisor to the FCC Chairman, will deliver a keynote address at Media Finance Focus 2010, the 50th annual conference for the Media Financial Management Association and its BCCA subsidiary on Tuesday, May 25 at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville (read more - MFMA) The third annual Conclave Rockwell Scholarship will be awarded to an individual who, like Conclave Rockwell Award recipients, have made important contributions to their station(s), their organizations and to the industry - The scholarship will be awarded at the 35th annual Conclave Learning Conference in Minneapolis July 15-17 (read more - The Conclave) Wednesday March 10, 2010 Randy Michaels, the man at the top of the troubled media empire took time out of his real job this week to compile a list of words and phrases - 119 of them, to be exact - that must never, ever be uttered by anchors or reporters on WGN-AM (720), the news/talk station located five floors below his office in Tribune Tower (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Ron Lundy, one of the great jocks of New York's top-40 radio history (WABC AM), is fighting his way back from a series of ministrokes. Ted David from the New York Radio Message Board is collecting messages of support and encouragement, which he will forward to Lundy's wife, Shirley, at their Mississippi home (read more - David Hinckley - NY Daily News) Ex-Rep. Massa confesses to 'inappropriate' text messages in bizarre Glenn Beck interview (read more - Kerry Burke and Michael Mcauliff - NY Daily News) Former New York congressman Eric Massa went on Glenn Beck's show and Larry King Live Tuesday night, defending his decision to leave office (read more - Peter Grier - Christian Science Monitor) (read more - Fox News) Well, it's not like Michelle Malkin didn't try to warn him. On his radio show yesterday, conservative blogger Malkin and (Glenn) Beck got into an extended tiff because Malkin didn't think it made sense for Beck to devote his entire Fox News show to his Eric Massa interview -- It turned out Malkin was giving Beck really good advice (read more - Media Matters) BIA/Kelsey www.bia.com and www.kelseygroup.com forecasts local advertising revenues for television and radio to reach $34.3 billion in 2014, up from $29.9 billion in 2009, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8 percent. Digital revenues for these media are expected to grow at a 17.8 percent CAGR during the same period, illustrating the continued shift toward digital media (read more - PR Newswire) Rush Limbaugh has told his audience he will leave the US and go to Costa Rica for health care if health care reform becomes law - or did he say that he would leave the US -- period -- and then backed down and clarified his remarks? (read more - David Edwards and Daniel Tencer - Raw Story) (read more - WITN TV) Rush Limbaugh
is saying adios to the Big Apple and
selling his 10 room, 4 bedroom, 5 1/2
bath; 4,661 Sq Ft 1049 BBC Radio 2 host Sir Terry Wogan has been named digital radio personality of the year at the annual Tric Awards (read more - BBC News U.K.) Arbitron numbers for Grand Rapids MI, Jacksonville, Orlando, Raleigh-Durham and Shreveport (read the numbers) David Letterman avoids trial as ex-CBS producer Robert "Joe" Halderman, who had worked for "48 Hours" before being quietly dismissed by the network, pleads guilty in extortion case (read more - Howard Kurtz - Washington Post) (read more - Melissa Grace - NY Daily News) Chuck Wilson - named by Sports Illustrated as runner-up for "Best National Radio Host" of the decade - returns to ESPN Radio this weekend - Wilson will host “Baseball Tonight”, “Football Tonight” and other programs on ESPN Radio (read more - Jim Donaldson - Providence Journal) News Burps DFW stations score in Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Awards with many awards going to WFAA TV and KRLD 1080 Radio (read more - Robert Philpot - Star-Telegram) A survey conducted by BIGresearch for the Retail Advertising & Marketing Association (RAMA) found that in-person communication was social media users’ top impetus to start an online search for a specific item. Social media users were even more influenced by face-to-face word-of-mouth than average adults (read more - eMarketer) It’s time to bust a myth. Even though Radio has embraced the power of computers for every other aspect of its business, when it comes to music testing, many broadcasters are still clinging to old, pre-digital methods. Favoring telephone over computer models, many Radio programmers and consultants think that it is not possible to get reliable music research through on-line computer surveys. We have found this notion to be false (read more - Kelly Music Research) Tim Westergren’s plan to build a music service, take it to the Internet and make it a radio station started over 10 years ago. Westergren found out quickly where all the radio angels were - in terrestrial heaven. There were no investors so his company floundered for way too long. That was then. Now Pandora is doing so well, they may go public, according to Crawdaddy (read more - Mel Phillips) Fear Factor? There is no shortage of stories. A Cumulus market manager who according to one of his employees actually pulled off this stunt: “Our Market Manager has the mistaken idea that blasting music at a ridiculously high volume will cause us to be more energetic and increase productivity -- So, we've started closing the door on the office. Apparently, this annoyed (Gary) Pizatti so he told the manager he ought to take the hinges off the door. Fast Forward about 4 days -- a Monday Morning. We walk in the office and low and behold -- the doors to the sales offices have been taken off the hinges (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) As more and more smartphones literally come cascading to the market, industry observers are beginning to connect the dots and conclude that not only are mobile gadgets not just fads, they will systematically replace many other devices and tools that we've used our entire lives (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) I think one of the things we should discuss is how your guide to marketers can also be a guide to media partners of marketers (like radio) who, ideally, should be in the same game as their marketing clients, correct? I hope so. Yes. One of the quotes that you have in your book that I found particularly amusing was “If baseball were measured like advertising, you would only count the pitches” (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Tuesday March 9, 2010 One of the labels’ biggest concerns remains: If people can listen to whatever they want online, why would they buy music? Meanwhile, Internet radio services like Pandora, which cannot play music on demand, are attracting millions of listeners and cautious support from record labels (read more - Claire Cain Miller - NY Times) CBS Radio has launched “The FAN Sports Network,” the first four channel HD Radio digital multicast station in the country. WJFK-FM, 106.7 The Fan is now offering sports followers in the Washington, D.C. area subscription free access to CBS RADIO’s biggest sports radio stations in the Northeast including Baltimore’s WJZ-FM (HD2), New York’s WFAN (HD3) and Philadelphia’s WIP (HD4) Harry Smith will undergo a colonoscopy live tomorrow - Wednesday - morning on CBS' "The Early Show" (read more - Cristina Kinon and Richard Huff - NY Daily News) Several Texas radio stations are campaigning against a proposed law that would require them to pay royalties to music performers. Stations already pay fees to composers and say they can’t afford to pay more, but performers say they deserve to be paid for their work (read more - Ilana E. Strauss - InfoZine) The final deadline for
2010’s New York Festival Radio
Programming & Promotions Awards
is March 31. The Jurors have begun deliberations in trial of shock jock Hal Turner - For the second time in three months, a jury is trying to decide whether shock jock Hal Turner of North Bergen threatened to assault or murder three federal judges, or was only expressing an opinion when he wrote they “deserved to be killed” (read more - Peter J. Sampson - Bergen Record) Arbitron numbers for Columbia SC, Knoxville and Richmond (read the numbers) Robert Feder jumps into his columnist time machine and travels back 20 years ago for Chicago media headlines: “Edward R. Vrdolyak’s brief career as a radio talk show host appears to have derailed at WLS-AM (890) + Good news for fans of Rick O’Dell: While continuing to host his popular ‘Sunday Soundscapes’ on WNUA-FM (95.5), overnight jock O’Dell has been promoted to the midday shift - from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. weekdays + The hottest tickets in town - 125,000 free passes to ‘The Bozo Show’ - will be up for grabs (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Ed Gordon is back on Black Entertainment Television - Gordon is best known for in depth interviews with international icons like Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey, the late Michael Jackson, and R. Kelly (read more - EurWeb) Another Washington, DC player has been heard from concerning the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s planned sale of KFUO-99.1 FM to Gateway Creative Broadcasting: Senator Kit Bond has called for a Congressional inquiry into the matter (read more - Sarah Bryan Miller - St Louis Post-Dispatch) News Burps From
aMinuteMore.com -- Topic: Janice Croze
is a lifestyle expert
and founder of
5MinutesForMom.com. She's
The memorial for the broadcast icon Cecil Heftel will be held onSunday, March 28, at 2 pm at Hawaii Theater - If you'd like to attend, e-mail Doug Carlson by Tuesday night carlsond007@hawaii.rr.com and if you have photos of Cecil you'd like to contribute, e-mail Phil Arnone philarnone@hawaii.rr.com With a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter - the kind used to play an iPod through a car radio - you can transform your humble Honda into a Radio Free Civic that can broadcast your tunes up to 100 feet (read more - Mathew Honan - Wired) Technology is enabling consumers to get their news when they want or when they need to have it while radio stations seem to be conceding the battle for the digital frontier. If you factor in the 40 million Pandora users, whatever listening radio stations can manage (typically one to three percent of their audiences online), increasingly available WiFi Internet streams and personal iPod-type devices, it begs the question – is radio ready for the digital future? (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Broadcasters tend to misunderstand (at best) and abuse (at worst) the term "local," thinking that the mailing address of the local radio station somehow entitles it to unique privileges versus its competitors, even in today's digital era (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Radio may have doubled their digital dollars over the last five years, from 1% to 2%, but compared to other media forms, they are losing the race. Local online spending has mushroomed from $2.1 billion in 2004 to $13.3 billion in 2009 or more than $2 billion a year (read more - Mel Phillips) Stations are struggling with the notion that, in fact, the audience may be a better organized community (and communties) than they are. This cuts both ways because during a time when stations have no outside marketing budgets, there are ample opportunities to tap into existing communities and groups that have organized on the Internet. And if you think it through, what's more valuable in this environment - having a modest billboard campaign for your station or receiving an endorsement from a large group of consumers? (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) Sports fans in the DC area come out winners, at least those few that actually have HD radios. They add at least two more choices for sports talk and information at any given time, while WJFK helps to keep listeners from going to WTEM if they are not enjoying the currently airing topic or program. Moves such as this, and a couple of pro teams going to HD channels specific to a team, such as the HD radio channel in Pittsburgh devoted to the Penguins, are excellent uses of the HD radio concept which allows for more targeted and niche programming (read more - Dave Kohl) Kim Komando will soon be launching TVKim.com which will feature daily video essays, live streaming via six-camera shoots of Kim’s national weekend radio show and more (click here to view the YouTube video) Monday March 8, 2010 For more than 70 years, royalty payments for air time have flowed to the songwriters and music publishers but not to the musicians or record companies. Now there is a renewed drive to revisit that arrangement, and in recent weeks the volume of the discussion has increased several decibels. For the radio industry, that has meant taking the battle to a place it knows: the airwaves (read more - Joseph Plambeck - NY Times) Liberty Media Corp. is on the verge of controlling the assets of a second satellite radio company - WorldSpace - with a global reach - one year after rescuing Sirius XM (read more - Greg Avery - Denver Biz Journal) You’ll have to forgive Bryan Truta and Nycki Pace these days if they sound even more perky while rousing Kansas Citians from their slumber. Last fall, ratings for their morning program on KCJK-FM (105.1) - better known as Jack FM - suddenly spiked. It wasn’t a fluke, either. Throughout the winter, “Jack’s Big Breakfast” has been extremely popular with listeners ages 25-54 and is No. 1 among women in their 20s, 30s and 40s — a big selling point with advertisers. “Thanks to PPM, we get to throw around our credentials now,” Truta said (read more - Aaron Barnhart - KC Star) When WFLD-Channel 32 announced the hiring of Dawn Hasbrouck as noon news anchor, the Fox-owned station went out of its way to tell the world that Nancy Loo, the woman who’d be losing her anchor seat, would be kept on as a general assignment reporter. They lied (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) It wasn't risky to go with an all- request format at WNTR-FM (107.9), radio executive Jennifer Skjodt says. Skjodt, vice president and market manager for WNTR and two other Indianapolis-based Entercom Communications stations, launched the unconventional "My 107.9" at the beginning of the year (read more - David Lindquist - Indy Star) Two longtime programmers have been shown the door at Clear Channel: Stacy Cunningham, PD of KMEL (106.1) who also piloted sister KIOI (Star 101.3) for a couple of years, and John Scott, multifaceted news reporter and PD at KKGN (Green 960) and KNEW (910 AM) + After 15 years hosting KSFO's (560 AM) morning show (many of them with Melanie Morgan), Lee Rodgers did his last show Feb. 18 - without knowing it. "It was forced upon me, with no notice," he wrote (read more - Ben Fong-Torres - SF Chronicle) The complete list of the Academy Award winners (click here to read the list) A day after Radio KDNA's beleaguered director departed, the station's board said it would work to end the controversy that has roiled the public Spanish-language station for more than a year (read more - Philip Ferolito - Yakima Herald-Republic) Apple aired its first commercial for the iPad during the Oscars show (watch the video commercial - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - ZDNet) Apple will start selling the iPad model that connects to the Internet through Wi-Fi networks on April 3 in the US. Models that connect to AT&T's faster 3G wireless network will be available later in the month (read more - Holly Sanders Ware - NY Post) KVTT at 91.7 is now heard at 1110 AM. The 1110 AM frequency has been boosted to 50,000 watts and the music on the station is now a blend of worship and classical Christian. The Scott Wilder show returns to the airwaves in the Dallas market today on KVTT 1110 AM. The Point of View program with Kerby Anderson has returned to the airwaves on KVTT as well as radio news broadcaster L.B. Lyon BMW and RadioTime have unveiled a feature for the compact Mini automobile that pulls in web and terrestrial radio stations over an iPhone’s 3G connection, making BMW “the first car manufacturer to offer this capability in a production car” (read more - Eliot Van Buskirk - Wired) Within months, Melbourne will not only have some competition in talk radio, it will have a new breakfast radio program to wake up to and a whole new radio station. In today's Sunday Herald Sun, I'm revealing that station will be called Melbourne Talk Radio. MTR 1377 will replace the now easy listening music station 3MP (read more - Steve Price - Herald Sun AU) Monica DeSantis will take over as WLS-AM mid-morning news, weather and traffic reporter for Amy Jacobson, who formally informed the station she is leaving to join John Howell mornings on WIND-AM 560 (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) Questions are swirling again concerning the Cardinals' radio situation: Will they add the local FM sports-talk station, WXOS (101.1), to augment KTRS' coverage this year? And in the bigger picture, will former longtime home KMOX be their destination for 2011? (read more - Dan Caesar - St Louis Post Dispatch) Stryker, who joined AMP Radio 97.1 FM in afternoon drive one year ago, has returned to his previous home, KROQ 106.7 FM, 4-7 p.m. weekdays + KFWB 980 AM is making what could be a really smart move, trading rants for money news, starting March 15 (read more - Gary Lycan - Orange County Register) Arbitron numbers for Albany-Schenectady-Troy, Birmingham, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill and Honolulu (read the numbers) Vice President of CBS Radio News Harvey Nagler has been presented the Radio Television Digital News Foundation First Amendment Service Award (read more - Scott Wykoff - WBAL Radio) News Burps From
aMinuteMore.com -- Topic: Brendan McBratney
of
Massage Envy
says that massage can relieve stress and pain
From Claude Hall
-- No question about it. Sometimes I
write better than other times. I hope I write about
Paul Ackerman
well. But he deserves better than I can do. I know that. I only knew
him a few years. Primarily my From Tommy Kramer --
My thanks to Janine Fairchild of
91.5 WCIC
in Peoria,
who inspired this tip with this email --
Tommy, I love how your coaching
challenges me and makes me think! I've been checking out your web Al Aamodt, a 35-year employee of WDAY and an anchor for the radio station in recent years, and program manager and “Morning Buzz” co-host Ben Ziegler, were let go (read more - InForum - Fargo-Moorhead) Jeff and Jer's Garage-gram: This is where top-ranked morning shows go when they go off the air - to the garage. At least, that's the destination (so far) for San Diego's legendary Jeff & Jer (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Jake Shapiro’s idea was to marry public radio to the iPhone, so he developed the free Public Radio Player, an app that would stream public radio to an iPhone. Jake hoped for 500,000 downloads at the most - 2.5 million downloads was way beyond his expectations but that’s what he has today (read more - Mel Phillips) Inside sources at ABC say Dave Westin’s news operation – you now, the one that just recently mandated a one-third reduction in size – is reportedly interviewing these new “mutates” called “perma-lancers”. These sources say Westin has told some non-union people that there is plenty of money to hire them for extended periods of time despite what the company has been claiming is the reason for its massive staff reductions. In effect, “perma-lancers” – the term used to describe the mutation of permanent employees and part-time workers -- should more accurately be called “union-busters” (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) When you have been proficient for decades at designing and creating campaigns for television, radio, and print, the explosion of social media can totally redefine the media plan - and with it, the core focus and staff of the agency itself. We're all trying to learn and better understand this space, often reading whatever we can get our hands on to better grasp the change (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) A bold burglary knocked a Lawton radio station - even swiped a computer that keeps K-98 Jamz on the air - off the air Friday morning, as workers at Perry Broadcasting showed up to find about $10,000 worth of equipment stolen from their studio (read more - KSWO TV) Entravision loss narrows in the 4th quarter on cost cuts as advertising revenue falls (PR Newswire) When Public Radio Exchange developed the free Public Radio Player for the iPhone, the nonprofit hoped for 500,000 downloads. It now has 2.5 million (read more - Nate Anderson - Ars Technica) For many years European radio has learned a lot from American radio. Today the situation has changed a bit as the markets are quite different. But there are still lessons to be learned from US – the homeland of Apple and Google (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) There is an underlying aspect of today’s media that defies logic. For some reason, it appears that media managers are actually trying to piss off the very consumers they’re supposed to be serving (read more - Frank Absher - STLmedia.net) James A. Ellenwood Jr, a former WOWO Fort Wayne DJ also known as "Diamond Jim Brady" has died (read more - Alyssa Ivanson - WANE TV) Beginning April 5, 710 ESPN KSPN is changing its daily sports talk lineup and adding another Los Angeles-based program with Brian Long and A. Martinez (read more - Diane Pucin - LA Times) No winners seen if WABC goes dark on Cablevision - As Saturday deadline looms in talks over retransmission fees, a blackout could prove costly to both parties if the dispute drags out for many weeks (read more - Matthew Flamm - Crain's NY Biz) Friday March 5, 2010 Dr. Drew Pinsky is not the only one targeted by his alleged stalker who has been arrested - personalities Kevin and Bean at KROQ where Dr. Drew works were also allegedly harassed (read more - TMZ) Federal prosecutors on Thursday sought to portray Harold C. Turner, the incendiary radio talk show host, as a white supremacist whose racist and at times violent rhetoric predated his recruitment as a paid government informant and continued after the Federal Bureau of Investigation dropped him for what it called “serious control problems” (read more - A.G. Sulzberger - NY Times) Beasley Broadcast Group has announced operating results for the three- and twelve-month periods ended December 31 (read more - BBGI) Haitian radio host Carel Pedre has been honored for 'tweeting' on the earthquake with a special "humanitarian" award at the second annual "Shorty Awards" in New York (read more - AFP) After a year of internal conflict and public protests, Radio KDNA’s governing board dismissed executive director Maria Fernandez (read more - Melissa Sánchez - Yakima Herald-Republic) If he did nothing else in his career but invent “The Drive” - the most successful new radio format of the last 10 years - Greg Solk would be a local legend. But that’s just one in his impressive list of credits. So it seemed perfectly fitting that in conjunction with a multiyear contract extension, Solk, 48, was promoted this week to senior vice president of programming for Bonneville International (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) WHAS radio named Mandy Connell to replace the late Francene Cucinello (read more - Louisville Courier-Journal) Arbitron numbers for Fresno, Memphis, Nashville and Tucson (read the numbers) A television series about Alaska seen through the eyes of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin, is being pitched to networks in the US, the show's producer Mark Burnett says (read more - Sydney Morning Herald AU) Rupert Murdoch caused a stir this week when he said he doubted the rumors that the Sulzbergers might sell The New York Times to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. “I don’t believe it,” Murdoch said, “The family treats it as a great heritage,” and if the family were to sell, he added, it would be “least of all to a Mexican” (read more - Philip Stone - Follow the Media) Smartphones have changed the way we travel (read more - Roger Yu - USA Today) Matthew Dowd, who worked as chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign, is getting a shot behind the anchor desk on ABC's “This Week" (read more - Michael Calderone - Politico) News Burps From
aMinuteMore.com -- Topic: Andrew Orci
of Orci.com
has details from a
nationwide survey outlining the growing
A couple of good friends were telling me last week, remotes are dead, in general and at their prospective stations. I knew these were going to die years ago, we kept sending out carnival barker air talent with a shabby van, card table with tent that never went up right and nothing to giveaway. We expected clients to keep buying these broadcast remotes with no ROI. An account executive at a major market Country station said her clients are not interested and most of all agencies (read more - Chuck Geiger's Full Throttle Country) Are radio-TV talk show financial advisors and commentators qualified, are there conflicts of interest and are they disclosing their ties to the financial industry? Commentator Glenn Beck Dispenses Investing Advice: Should You Follow? (read more - Eric Tyson) Dave Ramsey's company maintains a list of "Endorsed Local Providers" (ELPs) which includes investment brokers, real estate brokers, insurance and mortgage brokers among others - Unfortunately, Ramsey's company fails to disclose that they are referring unsuspecting members of the public to commissioned-based brokers (read more - Eric Tyson) Is Suze Orman qualified to be giving you financial advice and how good is her advice? (read more - Eric Tyson) Let me say this as plainly as I can: The Internet is coming to the automobile. And with it will come audio, video, and new user experiences matched to the medium, beneath the distraction threshold, and appropriate (if not essential) for the place - in a car and on the road (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) The National Association of Broadcasters defended FCC charges that broadcasters “were lacking any quantifiable public interest obligations”. This was an FCC workshop with no middle ground. Those representing the FCC - Commissioner Michael Copps, General Counsel Henry Geller, Media Bureau Deputy ChiefRobert Ratcliffe and others, took on NAB General Counsel Jane Mago and president emeritus of the Radio-Television Digital News Association, Barbara Cochran (read more - Mel Phillips) There is a dichotomy between what the radio industry thinks a program director’s job is going to be in the future and what it will really be. For example, to radio CEOs anxious to keep cutting costs you see two paths: One, using a program director to oversee the content of more than one (often three or more) radio stations. Of course, this is absurd (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) It’s always the fine print that gets you; that one line at the end of a big announcement that seems innocuous but isn’t. For instance, take General Motors’s announcement of “Pause and Play Radio,” a new feature that will soon be available in some vehicles. Described as working like a DVR for radio, most of the announcement describes scenarios that sound great for radio listening (read more - Mike Stern - Jacobs Media) A new review of 130 studies "strongly suggests" playing violent video games increases aggressive thoughts and behavior and decreases empathy (read more - Sharon Jayson - USA Today) Dave Graveline and the Into Tomorrow team celebrate Dave's birthday and talk tech this weekend on-air, online and on satellite radio with guests and updates from Chuck Hamby of Verizon Wireless; This Week in Tech History with Chris Graveline; Into Tomorrow Product Spotlight with Rob Almanza and Into Gaming Update with Mark Lautenschlager RadioTime, a developer of technology for finding and listening to radio online, has integrated the RadioTime web radio service into its MINI Connected option, which offers a unique USB interface for optimum integration of the Apple iPhone in the car’s audio and infotainment system. The MINI Connected option makes MINI the first car manufacturer in the world to offer this function in a regular production car (read more - Business Wire) Thursday March 4, 2010 Are local radio stars gone forever? Jeff and Jer? Off the air. Dave, Shelly and Chainsaw? Down for the count. And most of their sidekicks are out of jobs too. These ultra-popular morning hosts ---- at Star 94.1 and KGB, respectively ---- used to rule the radio roost in the a.m. Both teams had been around for decades, meaning that kids who grew up with them are now having children of their own. Readers have asked me two main questions about why the teams got bounced off the air: When will they be back on the radio? And what are these folks doing now? (read more - Randy Dotinga - North County Times - San Diego) Rep. John Dingell assured broadcasters that he is against the "tax" he said would be imposed by the Performance Rights Act. He spoke just hours after fellow Rep. John Conyers Jr. said performers have the right to compensation (read more - Kim Hart - The Hill) Arbitron numbers for Omaha-Council Bluffs and New Orleans (read the numbers) Cumulus has announced its latest financial numbers and appointed Joseph P. Hannan as Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer (read more - Cumulus) Cumulus will host a conference call on Thursday, March 4th at 10:00AM EST to review the Company’s fourth quarter 2009 financial results. The call will be open to the general public on a listen only basis (read more - Business Wire) Besides syndicating Gayle King's two-hour daily show, Westwood One will distribute a daily feature from Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Winfrey acolyte whose TV show is produced by Harpo. There also will be a three-hour weekend program for Westwood One consisting of highlights from King, Oz and others from Harpo Radio (read more - Phil Rosenthal - Chicago Tribune) Television producer who filmed himself having sex with women jailed (read more - The Telegraph U.K.) Odd Web ads, like the dancing women promoting mortgage brokers, are not new. But on social networks like Facebook, where people go to communicate with one another, advertisers seem to be trying especially hard to intrude on the conversation. The so-called self-service ads on the site, from the likes of video game start-ups, herbal supplement makers, sweepstakes companies and wedding photographers, are shown on the right side of most pages (read more - Brad Stone - NY Times) CNN is facing a sticky situation if anchor Campbell Brown's husband -- former Bush White House adviser Dan Senor -- decides to run as a Republican against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. The network will have to decide if Brown can keep hosting her 8 p.m. nightly news show -- or if she would be compromised by the conflict (read more - Michael Starr - NY Post) Start Your Own Internet Radio Station for Free - As long as you have a PC with a broadband connection (and Skype) you have what it takes to inflict your talk-radio rants or musical taste on anyone who'll listen - For a quick and dirty way to stream music to your buddies, you can simply grab a male-to-male 3.5mm RCA audio cable, plug one end into the microphone jack and the other end into the headphone jack, and either start a Skype session or sign up for an account with a Web-based streaming service (Justin.tv or Ustream.tv, for example) to get going (read more - Patrick Miller - PCWorld-Washington Post) The Paley Center for Media, the television industry's think tank, library and historian, is moving ahead with exploring the possibility of creating its own awards show that could end up competing with Emmy Awards (read more - Joe Flint - LA Times) Movie stars, who not so long ago vied to make $20 million or even $25 million a picture, have seen their upfront salaries shrink in the last several years as DVD sales fell, star-driven vehicles stumbled at the box office and studios grew increasingly tightfisted. How bad is it? Pretty bad (read more - Michael Cieply - NY Times) News Burps The Miami Dolphins have turned the past season's high NFL television ratings into what appears to be a very successful new radio deal. Earlier this week, the team opted out of a possible 4th season of its contract with WQAM 560 and signed a fresh 6-year "partnership" with Clearance Channel. The team technically goes from one to two flagship stations, as both WBGG Big 105.9 and WINZ 940 will air the games starting with the pre-season in August. This deal reportedly includes WINZ airing a year-round Dolphins and NFL show weekdays from 5 to 7 PM (read more - Dave Kohl) You can fool all of the listeners with voice tracking, some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the listeners all of the time. Now, there is growing evidence that your leader in self-destructive radio strategies, Clear Channel, is forcing their employees to do voice tracking for free - as an add-on to the air jobs they apparently should be lucky to have (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) While TV will get the bulk of the $4.2 billion political ad money being spent this year, radio will get a nice piece of the $1.55 billion being invested in all other media (newspapers, other print, cable, out of home, direct mail, online and telemarketing) (read more - Mel Phillips) Many venerable brands have taken a beating due to a variety of factors, ranging from neglect, a lack of investment, and the march of technology. This last factor has played a major role in reshaping "radio" as a brand, and along with it, some major stations that once dominated the ratings and the trade press landscape. They are shadows of their former selves, no longer great and powerful stations that towered over the communities they serve (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) It’s common to stress radio’s advantage as a “local” medium. But what does it mean to be a “local medium” when the consumer’s local weather comes from the weather.com? When their local traffic comes from the traffic.com or, in the not too distant future, from the screen in your car’s dashboard? When their local news comes from Google News or Twitter? (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Radio 94.7 made its debut on 94.7 FM and online at www.Radio947.net Wednesday - They say there are many reasons for the change in music, but one of them is that the smooth jazz audience can no longer sustain the business of the station (read more - Michelle Ponto - News 10 Sacramento) Gigi South has been appointed as Market Manager for Clear Channel’s four-station radio group in Tuscaloosa Wednesday March 3, 2010 A 62-year-old city comedian and radio show host who calls Canadian actor Jim Carrey his "best buddy," has been sentenced to 18 months probation after pleading guilty to sexual assault involving a teenaged girl (read more - Belleville Intelligencer CA) (read more - Toronto Sun) Think of Jelli as American Idol, radio style, where the songs you hear on a station aren't picked by a DJ or program director, but by you (read more - Jefferson Graham - USA Today) No one is supposed to know it yet, but Amy Jacobson is close to accepting an offer to join Salem Communications conservative news/talk WIND-AM (560) as co-host of Big John Howell’s morning show from 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Net revenue for Citadel for the fourth quarter of 2009 was $192.9 million as compared to $214.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2008, a decrease of $21.3 million, or 9.9% (read more - Benzinga) Dionne Warwick wants performers paid for radio play (read more - Ann Sanner - AP) (read more - Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri - Washington Examiner) Arbitron numbers for Monterey-Salinas and Buffalo-Niagara Falls (read the numbers) Radio-Canada should apologize for a skit that offended the Italian community, a business group says (read more - view the video - CNews) To "Late Show" viewers, David Letterman comes off as a geeky talk-show host uncomfortable in his own skin. But behind the scenes, the gap-toothed king of late-night TV is a "Jesus"-like figure to his female staffers -- his sexual "electricity" driving them insane with desire, a new report says (read more - Dan Mangan - NY Post) The past year has been challenging for Roe Conn, one of the city's most familiar radio hosts. But in recent weeks, a lot of change has come to news/talk WLS-AM (890), the radio station where Conn works, and to his afternoon drive show there (read more - Lewis Lazare - Chicago Sun-Times) In the first major fracture between television show owners and the wildly popular Hulu.com, Viacom will remove “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” and other Comedy Central programs from the video site next week (read more - Brian Stelter - NY Times) Jack E. Jett makes a live appearance online on the "Rick and RJ Show" today - Wednesday - from noon to 2 pm CT to talk about his recent termination from Clear Channel CNN 1190 in Dallas (visit - listen live - Rick and RJ Show) Who is Orlando’s best morning sports radio host -- Dan Sileo or Mike & Mike? (read more - Mike Bianchi - Orlando Sentinel) Dierks Bentley, Pam Tillis, Jim Lauderdale to Host Weekly Radio Shows in Nashville (read more - CMT) The dean of broadcast weather forecasting at WBZ - TV in Boston and New England, Don Kent died early Tuesday (read more - Bryan Marquard - Boston Globe) News Burps One of terrestrial radio’s big spenders will remain so this year. AutoZone, the U.S. auto-parts retail industry leader loves the return they’re getting on their radio dollar so much, they’ve decided to stick with radio for the bulk of their ad spending. Bill Rhodes, Chairman, President and CEO of the company said so during AutoZone’s conference call yesterday (read more - Mel Phillips) If you cut news, your listeners will get it elsewhere – perhaps online. Some 26% of Americans get their news by phone according to a recent Pew survey. If you fire their favorite radio personalities, perhaps they will spend time with their own friends more on social networks, or find other diversions. If you lack variety, they now have options to find it. If you dilute local radio, they can punish you by relying on their own network of friends, sources and online websites (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) They're media buyers. That what they do. So, if you're the big all-news station in town, they'll tell you that your audience is too old. If you're the rock station, they'll tell you that you don't appeal to women. If you're #1 Men 25-54, they'll tell you they buy Adults 25-54 (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) At the top of the list of things I didn't expect to hear this year was Rush Limbaugh saying "thank you." As part of my book, Wingnuts, which dissects how hyper-partisanship and increased influence of the lunatic fringe have led to Washington's dysfunction, I traced the start of the legislative stalemate crippling Obama's agenda to Limbaugh's now infamous statement, "I hope he fails." It was a criticism. Rush took it as a compliment (read more - John Avlon - Daily Beast) Tuesday March 2, 2010 More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report from Pew Internet and American Life Project (read more - Doug Gross - CNN) Dan Harris, an anchor and correspondent for ABC News, has a firsthand grasp of how digital journalism could transform the future of network news (read more - Matea Gold - LA Times) The whining by broadcast networks, local TV stations and newspapers about their news business woes is pathetic. The cause of their self-made problems is their stubborn resistance to replace — not just tweak - business models that ceased to function with the rise of social media and instant news by the people, for the people (read more - Diane Mermigas - BNET) What do we want from the BBC? There have been a lot of big mistakes at the BBC recently, leading to jitteriness and a lack of confidence. But it remains supremely powerful. Is it moving in the right direction? And what does its future hold? (read more - Andy Beckett - The Guardian U.K.) Arbitron numbers for Akron and Hartford (read the numbers) Howard Stern blasts 'Tonight' show's Jay Leno: 'Just the mention of his name makes me want to vomit' (read more - Richard Huff - NY Daily News) It’s not the full-fledged comeback their fans have been hoping for, but Ed Volkman and Joe Bohannon will be reunited on Chicago radio next week for the first time in 16 months. The durable duo, who ended their 20-year run on CBS Radio rhythmic Top 40 WBBM-FM (96.3) in November 2008, will turn up as guest hosts on Citadel Broadcasting news/talk WLS-AM (890) (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) Despite delivering better than expected results last week, Sirius XM Radio has gone on to close lower in the two trading sessions since its robust report (read more - Rick Aristotle Munarriz - Motley Fool) For more than three decades Bruce Wolf has been the hyperactive, hyperbolic, mocking, smirking, linguistically preening court jester of Chicago broadcasting. Since early last March, when the multiple Emmy winner was ousted from his latest daily radio perch alongside Jonathan Brandmeier at WLUP-FM (97.9), he has been casting about for regular employment (read more - Mike Thomas - Chicago Sun-Times) For the sixth consecutive ratings period, light-rock WBEB-FM (101.1) easily was the most-heard radio station in the region among listeners 12 and older, according to January's Arbitron ratings. B101 captured 8.9 percent of the measured audience. News KYW-AM (1060) was second, followed by classic-hits WOGL-FM (98.1). Overall listening was flat over last year (read more - Michael Klein - Philly Inquirer) Starting today Howard TV On Demand will present The Bonus Show, a new weekly comedy news series that features hilarious and never before-seen video clips from the revered Howard Stern universe. Hosted by long-time Howard Stern Show personality Jon Hein and model/host Rachel Fine, the show features exclusive original clips, footage and interviews with core radio show personalities, the eccentric but lovable supporting staff, as well as celebrity guests (read more - Steve Tomassetti - TMR Zoo) Jesse Ventura's going on a media blitz and book tour on Monday starting the day with the Today Show and ending with Larry King "Live" (read more - Rachel E. Stassen-Berger - Star-Tribune) Internet radio talk show host Hal Turner so “despised” a ruling upholding a handgun ban in Chicago that he threatened the lives of three federal appeals court judges in a bid to silence them, a prosecutor said Monday (read more - Peter J. Sampson - Bergen Record) Gene Chenault dies at 90; helped invent 'Boss Radio' format in 1960s: He partnered with Bill Drake to revolutionize rock radio programming, first at KHJ in L.A. and then coast to coast with a formula of less talk, fewer commercials and more music (read more - Carla Rivera - LA Times) Buffalo's 103.3 The Edge says that it's nothing personal, but it refused to play Canadian music on Monday in reaction to Canada's gold medal win over the U.S. in Olympic men's hockey on Sunday. posted its sour-grapes plan on its website Monday morning (read more - The Sault Star) The NAB State Leadership Conference is underway through tomorrow - Wednesday - in Washington (read more - NAB) After I reported last week the Arbitron figures for January showing a surprise upset in morning drive for Don and Roma Wade on Citadel Broadcasting news/talk WLS-AM (890), I fully expected that the competition would step up with its own set of numbers to dispute my point. Lo and behold, Tribune Co.-owned news/talk WGN-AM (720) didn’t disappoint (read more - Robert Feder - Vocalo) News Burps From
aMinuteMore.com -- Topic: Dr. Kelly Michienzi
of the American Society of
Health-System Pharmacists
KGXL, 96.7-FM was formerly known as "The Wolf" and played country music. It now boasts a talk radio format, featuring personalities and news from Fox News Radio (read more - Laura Kellerman and Bob Bartlett - KTAB TV Abilene) (read more - Jaime Adame - Abilene Reporter-News) The DFW Radio/TV/Media Lunch Bunch casual lunch hour gathering begins its 7th season and happens this Friday March 5 at Humperdink's, 2208 W. Northwest Hwy, between Loop 12-Walton Walker and 35E-Stemmons, in Dallas - A quarterly gathering of anyone in DFW media, past or present. It's a very casual, come-as-you-are, come-and-go event to swap stories, see old friends, make new friends, and even do a little networking. It's Dutch treat, so each person pays for their own. No speeches, no formalities - just fun and great food - They'll also toast the memory of Darryl Beeson, semi-regular Lunch Bunch attendee and WFAA-AM/KRLD vet, who passed away January 29 (e-mail Mike Shannon - shannon914@yahoo.com - to let him know is you'll be there or won't be there) Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and NPR correspondent Deborah Amos will be honored at the annual Edward R. Murrow Symposium to be held April 20 at the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum on the Pullman campus of Washington State University (read more - KLEW TV) Free or paid? I’d take free, how about you? However, when I can’t get what I want for free and I really want it, then I’ll have to consider paying. This brings me to my passion that is the transition from traditional to new media. You know all those many local radio personalities out there who have a following but no radio station at which to work? They may be able to charge micropayments for podcasts, blogs and websites. That is assuming the personalities are unique enough that the audience does not want to live without them (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) Richard Wiley was the FCC Chairman who led the drive to ban cross-ownership in 1975, now he wants to kill the monster he created. Wiley was opposed to media companies owning a newspaper and/or radio, TV property in the same market, but now a counsel to the Newspaper Association of America and whose Wiley Rein law firm represents CBS Corp, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Gannett Co., Morris Communications Co. and Belo Corp., Wiley is the chief advocate to reverse his own ban (read more - Mel Phillips) Is it any wonder that the record industry is in deep trouble? Like other "old media" sectors, the establishment music industry has made one lame decision after another. And it continues to lay the blame for its troubles in all the wrong places (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) From George Johns
-- I was having
lunch with old friend Chuck
Knapp this week and just
seeing I am trying to recover my
bearings after the Halloween
Eve Fire. Meanwhile, having
checked out
Katrina Perez has been named Market Manager for Clear Channel's four-station radio group in Melbourne, Florida. Perez most recently held the position of General Sales Manager for the company’s five radio stations in Fort Pierce Arbitron announced that it met or exceeded substantially all of its sample size metrics across the 33 PPM currency markets in the January 2010 Portable People Meter survey. The average Designated Delivery Index (DDI) for Persons aged 6+ was 109 in January and 104 for Persons aged 18-54 across the 33 PPM currency markets (read more - Arbitron) Monday March 1, 2010 NBC's decision to return Jay Leno to his "Tonight Show" perch starting tonight, pitting him against Letterman's "Late Show" for a second time, has revived a long-running war with CBS (read more - Holly Sanders Ware - NY Post) Regent Communications has reached an agreement in principal with its lenders for a consensual financial restructuring that will reduce the Company's debt and strengthen its balance sheet resulting in the elimination of approximately $87 million of the Company's debt (read more - PR Newswire) Many across the country have heard Earl Pitts’ spirited, southern-accented rants but few have seen his face since the character first appeared 23 years ago on WLW radio. The redneck alter ego of former WLW-AM radio personality Gary Burbank, however, will get face time in millions of households in 90-second shorts on WGN 9 TV (read more - Scott Wartman - Cincy Enquirer) It's shake, rattle and roll time in local rock radio – classic rock KLOS/95.5 FM is the most listened to rock station for six straight months. And alternative rock KYSR/98.7 FM topped rival KROQ/106.7 FM for the first time in several key categories, including overall listening and Adults age 25-54 (read more - Gary Lycan - OC Register) Westwood One and Harpo Radio today announced a multi-year partnership to distribute The Gayle King Show (read more - Street Insider) Think of it as a 100-lane highway with various lanes set aside for particular uses, including AM and FM radio, TV and wireless computer technology. The government - specifically, the FCC - is in charge of deciding which devices use which lanes. Because we can’t create additional spectrum, we must make better use of the existing space. And the target that looks most promising in this regard is the spectrum used for over-the-air television broadcasts (read more - Richard H. Thaler - NY Times) WPOC fixture Laurie DeYoung, recently inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame, found success in an unexpected arena (read more - Chris Kaltenbach - Baltimore Sun) Mobile phones have become more than typical conversation devices. Though communication continues to be a primary purpose (email, instant messaging and tweeting), but with improving technology, larger bandwidth and less costly subscription packages, consumers conduct a whole range of activities on their personal mobile devices and on Smart Phones, these activities are rapidly gaining on the phone's original purpose. Bridge Ratings continues to track these activities (read more - Bridge Ratings) A 27-year-old man trying to set up an antenna for a pirate radio station was electrocuted in the backyard of his home Sunday, a Fort Lauderdale police spokesman said (read more - Rachel Hatzipanagos - Sun-Sentinel) Mr. Jazz: Steve Williams is the nighttime voice of Salt Lake radio station KUER (read more - Scott Iwasaki - Deseret News) Country Music fans spend less, listen to radio more says a study commissioned by the CMA Board of Directors by Chicago-based groups, The Right Brain Consulting LLC and Leo Burnett Company - The economy has a major impact on fan habits - What's on the rise is what's free or cheaper (read more - Nicole Ferguson - WTVF TV 5) Staff cuts at ABC and CBS News foreshadow a shift toward cheaper TV news gathering, as broadcast-news groups face shrinking profits and increasing competition from cable and the Internet (read more - Sam Schechner - WSJ) Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin said Friday he is grateful that the Florida District Attorney's office cleared him of a rape allegation - He's thinking of suing ESPN for wrongful termination. Irvin had hosted a radio show on ESPN Radio 103.3 (read more - Calvin Watkins - ESPN) At age 10, Damone tuned into Real Don Steele's show and other disc jockeys of the era to improve his verbal skills. Later, he attended the Columbia School of Broadcasting where, he said, "I got rid of my Italian accent." "From (my experience as) a kid, it has made a huge difference in my life," said Damone, a Fountain Hills resident and former disc jockey for Phoenix's KESZ-FM (99.9). Now retired, Damone continues his passion for radio, managing an online network of radio stations operated by children and supervised by broadcasting professionals (read more - Beth Duckett - Arizona Republic) The simmering feud between the city’s two sports radio powerhouses boiled over yesterday when a WEEI producer - Andy Massaua, who works for Glenn Ordway’s “The Big Show” - got slapped with a one-week suspension for texting “vulgar” messages to upstart rival the Sports Hub WBZ-FM 98.5 (read more - Jessica Heslam - Boston Herald) News Burps NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth Today anchor, Deborah Ferguson, has won the 2010 Gracie Award for Outstanding Anchor - News presented by American Women in Radio and Television - AWRT (read more - Melodika.net) A shakeup at KSFO has Bay Area listeners wondering: was veteran morning host Lee Rodgers unceremoniously fired after pressure from "ultra-left and pro-Muslim groups?" That's what Rodgers claims in an open letter to fans (read more - Kathy Shaidle - Examiner) Howard Stern: 'I Won't Work With DeGeneres Or DioGuardi' On 'American Idol' - Radio host says he'll bring his 'own people' on board (read more - Jocelyn Vena - MTV) Arbitron numbers for Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Portland OR, Sacramento, San Antonio and Salt Lake (read the numbers) From Claude Hall
--
Willie B.
was always something else. Was he something else in another city? He
was, indeed, chairman of the board from canyon to canyon in
Manhattan. Few had his glamour, From Tommy Kramer
-- Oddly enough, soliciting
stories from people usually
has the opposite result. You don't What a difference a year makes. Last February, fresh from merging the country's two biggest satellite radio companies, Sirius XM was on the verge of departing for the big broadcasting network in the sky - Today Sirius XM's stock is worth 20 times more than it was a year ago (read more - Maccabee Montandon - Fast Company) Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Fox News host Glenn Beck will be on stage together March 13 in Tulsa with country singer John Rich as part of his “Taking Our Country Back Tour” (read more - Andy Barr - Politico) Handcast Media Labs has launched Spark Radio, an Internet radio streaming $5.99 app for the iPhone that features over 10,000 global station choices, social media hooks, and "visually stunning" animations (read more - App Scout) “I'm a big alt-country fan, but I got to a place in my own musical listening where I was starting to not listen anymore,” Stephen King said when he called the other day to talk about volunteering his voice as narrator of Shooter Jennings’ atmospheric tale of a late-night radio talk show host who is the last voice of freedom in an increasingly restrictive society. “I didn’t buy much music anymore, then I got an XM radio and discovered this show, ‘Outlaw Country,’ hosted by Mojo Nixon, and to me that sounded like the way rock 'n' roll used to sound back in the day when I was a kid (read more - Randy Lewis - LA Times) 700 WLW-AM conservative radio host Bill Cunningham defeated Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones 15-12, 15-7, 11-6, making good on claims he would shut Jones’ “big mouth” in a match at the Hamilton Central YMCA to raise money for the YMCA’s youth programs and breast cancer research (read more - Tiffany Y. Latta - Middletown OH Journal) One of the hosts of The Ron and Fez Show on Sirius XM Radio offered to add $1,000 to the Crimestoppers reward for information leading to the arrest of the Andy Griffith statue vandal (read more - view the video - LA Times) The top spot in the market share for the sports talkers continues to bounce between WXOS's afternoon drive-time show (Bob Ramsey, Randy Karraker and D'Marco Farr) and its midday show with Bernie Miklasz (read more - Dan Caesar - St Louis Post-Dispatch) At radio station WGY, Al Roney is out, Beck is in - Popular local host fired to create time slot for syndicated program (read more - Chris Churchill - Albany Times-Union) James Dobson made his last radio broadcast Friday for Focus on the Family (read more - Washington Post) Now, more than ever, the audience knows when you’re faking. Especially the more active and engaged audience. There’s so much crap and manipulative nonsense in this world, your audience will thank you for a moment of authenticity. They’ll heave a sigh of relief for a gift that has real feeling behind it (read more - Mark Ramsey - Hear 2.0) Like a harbinger of spring, media buying agencies are forecasting brighter days ahead for radio. The enthusiasm stems from the volume pricing agencies will be luring radio with. Interpublic Group’s Magna is ready to leverage the hundreds of millions it spends yearly in radio by Initiative, Universal McCann and direct response firm ID Media (read more - Mel Phillips) Do most stations even care to super serve their loyalist listeners? I think not. Most -- no. They are more enamored of getting Arbitron’s People Meter to report as much drive-by listening as they can. Even at Christmas, a time when listeners can’t seem to get enough holiday music, most stations gladly take the spike of PPM numbers but do not reward their listeners with rich content, community involvement, civic outreach. In many cases, an iPod can do the same thing. Taking away personalities that fans care about never made sense (read more - Jerry Del Colliano - Inside Music Media) A funny thing happened on an investor/analyst call recently. CBS head honcho Les Moonves was effusive about his company's revenue forecast. But even more interesting was this statement about the company's radio division: “Radio’s steady improvement is not only a result of an improving economy, but our focus on programming is instrumental as well” (read more - Fred Jacobs - Jacobs Media) (More RDN CENTRAL ARCHIVES - Click here)
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him reminded me of when we were working together at All New
WIBG in
Philly. One day I was
listening to Chuck just cookin' along like only he can do when all
of a sudden he comes out of a record and starts lecturing us on the
evils of smoking. He made
smoking sound so bad that I had to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes
in five minutes just to try and calm myself
