Radio Trade News
- Salem Appoints Two GM’s in Chicago and Seattle
Salem Communications appoints two new General Managers at its groups in Chicago and Seattle. Jeff Reisman is named GM for its Chicago cluster, including WYLL-AM and WIND-AM. He replaces David Santrella, who is now President of the company’s radio division. For the past 5 years Reisman served as General Sales
- iBiquity Introduces 2010 Station Pricing for HD Radio
iBiquity Digital, developer of HD Radio technology, announced its 2010 pricing program for station licensing on Monday. The new plan includes reduced license fees and expanded payment options which iBiquity says will simplify radio broadcasters’ migration to digital. “HD Radio Technology has enjoyed tremendous
- Howard Stern Confirms Talks with ”American Idol”
Howard Stern confirmed on his radio show Monday that he is indeed talking to the producers on “American Idol” to replace Simon Cowell. An insider told the ’s Page Six last week that “American Idol” producers would like to hire Howard Stern to replace Simon Cowell and that the shock jock is their
- PWC Forecasts Rebound in 2010 Media Deal Market
PricewaterhouseCoopers is forecasting a rebound in mergers and acquisitions in the Entertainment and Media sector in 2010, following a 49% drop in deal value to $77.4 billion in 2009. Only 714 transactions were completed last year, down 29% from 1000 in 2008. Completed deals in 2009 represented 12.3% and 13.3% of total
- Joshua Fleming Exits KFRH-FM (102 Now)/Las Vegas
After only six months, Joshua Fleming exits CHR KFRH-FM (102 Now)/Las Vegas as Program Director. He previously served as Station Manager and Director of Programming of Royce International’s CHR KRCK-FM/Palm Springs, CA. Fleming joined KRCK from Cumulus/Ventura-Oxnard, where he served as an Account Executive and weekend talent
- Sirius XM Will Likely Not Have to Execute Reverse Split
It appears that Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin has pulled off another deal of the decade, and Sirius XM will not be required to execute its shareholder approved reverse split.
- Sirius XM Won’t Get Totaled by Toyota
Sirius XM could well take a hit in subscriber growth from the Toyota sales, production and recall debacle — but investors in Sirius XM can rest assured that the company will be fine.
- Sirius XM Set to Report Better than Expected Earnings
The first clue to Sirius XM Radio’s earnings possibilities came from Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei, while speaking at the recent Citi Media Conference.
- Ford Offers Six-Month Trial Of Sirius XM On Pre-Owned Vehicles
To boost business in these tough times, Ford Motor Company is now offering used-car customers a little lagniappe: a trial subscription to SIRIUS XM radio’s “SIRIUS Everything” package.
- Report: TSA confirms LASP Changes
Based largely on the negative response from the general aviation community, the Transportation Security Administration signaled major changes to the Large Aircraft Security Program , consistent with those EAA has been reporting, in an interview that aired Friday on National Public Radio.
- Sirius XM Radio Now Broadcasts to Your BlackBerry
The online streaming version of Sirius XM satellite radio is now available on many of the newer BlackBerry smartphones.
- Stern linked to Idol job
Cowell has headed the U.S. talent show’s panel since its inception in 2002, but announced last month he will leave the programme when his contract expires in May .
- Wunderlich Raises Liberty Capital Price Target on Sirius XM Strength
Wunderlich Securities’ Senior Media & Entertainment Analyst, Matthew Harrigan raised his price target on shares of Liberty Capital Group to $36.00 from $28.50 Wednesday, largely due to the recent strength of Sirius XM Radio .
- Sirius XM’s Berry Good News
Owners of compatible BlackBerry Tour, Bold, Curve, and Storm smartphones can now stream Sirius XM Radio .
- Beverly sinks under town’s claim as Navy’s birthplace
Don’t give up the ship. It’s a battle cry of the U.S. Navy going back to 1813. Yet, Beverly has given up.
- NewBay Acquires Broadcasting & Cable
Deal with Reed also includes TWICE and Multichannel News
- Gary Kline Is RW’s Engineer of the Year
Cumulus Media exec will receive 2009 Radio World ‘Excellence in Engineering’ Award
- Q4 Broadcast Revenue Falls at Harris
Drop is 25% from a year ago, though company says orders have picked up compared to most recent three months
- Here Are the Marconi Nominees
Network personalities are Michael Baisden, Bob & Tom, Steve Harvey, Rush Limbaugh and Dave Ramsey
- Inter Tech Fined for Marketing Unauthorized FM Transmitters, Amps
Cybermax case generates $22,000 penalty
- WTOP’s Weekend Snow Job
Apparently there was a little snow storm that blew into Washington, DC over the weekend. What’s now being called the “Blizzard of 2010″ dumped nearly three feet of snow on the Nation’s Capitol, sending the market’s top-rated all-newser WTOP-FM into wall-to-wall storm coverage mode. “Thanks to the people who’ve been living in nearby hotels and [...]
- Super Bowl XLIV Breaks Rating Records
Likely thanks to that aforementioned snowstorm that kept even more folks than usual trapped inside with their TV’s, yesterday’s NFL Super Bowl game drew a reported 106.5 million viewers who watched the New Orleans Saints defeat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17. CBS reports those numbers broke the previous television audience record of 105.9 million viewers who [...]
- Talk Media News Notes
Dial-Global syndicated talker Neal Boortz (pictured) goes one-on-one with fellow Dial-Global radio talker and MSNBC personality Ed Schultz to critique FOX News contributor Sarah Palin’s speech to the National Tea Party Convention HERE … While Michael Irvin was all over cable TV’s NFL Channel on Super Bowl Sunday, KESN/Dallas has dropped the former Dallas Cowboys receiver [...]
- Green Bay Gets An FM Talker
WTAQ-AM/Green Bay has added an FM simulcast at 97.5. offering listeners greater accessibility to the the Midwest Communications-owned News/Talker. Midwest VP/News and Talk programming Jerry Bader reports the new 3000 watt WTAQ-FM gives the station better coverage over metro Green Bay and areas north of the city, as well as parts of the Fox Valley [...]
- Deja Vu All Over Again
During a recent behind-the-scenes tour of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California, Salem Radio Network VP/News and Talk programming Tom Tradup snapped a photo of this once-again-timely cover of an early career “spoken word” album recorded by the former President. This past weekend marked what would have been the one-time WHO/Des Moines radio [...]
- Inside the Latest Issue – February 2010
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The 2010 TALKERS 250 featuring the Heavy Hundred
The editors of TALKERS magazine, with input from industry leaders, present the [...]
- 2009 – The Year in Review
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- Sports Notes – Dec. ‘09/Jan. ‘10
ollowing on the heels of its success in the Chicago market with ESPNChicago.com and recent launches in Dallas and Boston, ESPN is firing up a Los Angeles-centric sports “media station” website. The ESPN-operated “media stations” include text, photos, audio and video focused on sports content about the market’s sports teams. The December 21 [...]
- News Notes – December ‘09/Jan.’10
BS restructures its corporate management and puts CFO and SVP of operations Anton Guitano in the new position of COO of CBS local media. The company says Guitano will “report to Leslie Moonves, president and chief executive officer, CBS Corporation, in his new role as COO of local media. He will also report [...]
- Week in Review
Click “Read more…” to see the Week in Review – a listing of Issues-Oriented Talk Radio activity across America for the week of Monday, January 26th, 2009 to Friday, January 30th, 2009.
- R&B star Akon joins Global’s 95.8 Capital FM
LONDON – Senegalese-American R&B star Akon is to present a regular Saturday evening show on Global Radio’s 95.8 Capital FM from this weekend.
- MediaCom’s Richard Jacobs to join GMG Radio
LONDON – Richard Jacobs, head of radio at WPP’s MediaCom, is to join GMG Radio in the new role of head of commercial strategy on 16 February.
- Rajars: Radio industry mulls mixed results
The latest Rajar results proved a mixed bag for most radio operators in the UK. Quarterly gains were often offset by annual falls, or vice versa, while overall listening via digital platforms has dropped since the previous report.
- Rajars: Global’s Heart rebrand fails to boost listenership
LONDON – Global Radio’s Heart radio network has steadily lost listeners since it completed a nationwide rebrand which added a further nine local stations in June 2009.
- Rajars: Heart 106.2 becomes London’s number one
LONDON – Heart 106.2 has leapfrogged Magic 105.4 to become the most listened to commercial station in London for the first time in nearly three years, according to Rajar figures published today.
- More digital power for London
- Students join digital debate
- Akon locked up to Capital
- Global complaints cleared
- DAB debate in the House
- Nation Radio cuts the news
- Calls to save Radio 6 Music
- GMG gets new strategy chief
- Entries open for the Arqiva Awards
- Vote Joe Mania at Real Radio Northeast for the X Factor [Flickr]
- WAB Announces 76th. Annual Conference Program
- Ricky Gervais To Be Awarded Peter Ustinov Comedy Award at Banff
- Incendo and Zone3 Sign Alliance
- CTV and NFL Extend Multi-Year Broadcast Deal
- TVO Launces “Go Public” On-Air Fundraising Campaign
- Shaw Adds to Olympic Consortium’s French Coverage
- CBC Radio Announces New Morning Host
- CTV Ottawa Newsroom Destroyed By Fire
- CTV Ottawa Gutted by Fire
- Corus Announces Offering of $500-million of Senior Unsecured Guaranteed Notes
- AllAccess: Katz: Radio Ad Revenue Continues To Rise http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70505?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: iBiquity Announces New HD Radio Pricing http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70455?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: Who Rocked You http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70432?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: EMI: Chart Success Amidst Financial Problems http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70422?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: Cecil Heftel Dies At 85 http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70420?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: Joshua Fleming Exits Royce Communications http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70412?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: N.Y. Post Report: Stern On 'Idol'? http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70375?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: Michael Jackson's Doctor To Surrender Today http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70364?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: Arbitron To Reissue Atlantic City, Syracuse And Austin http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/70370?ref=twitter
- AllAccess: All Access Debuts Weekly Digital Media Webinars Powered By Triton Digital http://bit.ly/93C61r
- CountryAircheck: Former Curb VP/Promotion April Rider has been named GM/Operations for Stoney Creek Records. Details: http://tinyurl.com/yanz35d
- CountryAircheck: Warner Music/Nashville Dir./Nat’l Promotion Bob Reeves has been promoted to VP/Promotion. Details: http://tinyurl.com/ybaqpvy
- CountryAircheck: Curb VP/Promotion April Rider has resigned after 10 years with the company. Details: http://tinyurl.com/yzjopsm
- CountryAircheck: ACM 2010 radio award nominees have been announced. Full list: http://tinyurl.com/yborn5e
- CountryAircheck: Promo vet Dawn Ferris will join BBR as Mgr./Midwest (2/8), replacing Bill Heltemes, who joined Golden last month. More in today’s email.
- CountryAircheck: Photo Ed. Konicki to Editor, Ken Tucker to Mng. Ed., Elliott is Art Dir. as Holden, Scarlett, Holthouse exit Country Weekly.
- CountryAircheck: WGGY/Wilkes Barre PD/AM driver Doc Medek joins Andie Summers in mornings at WXTU/Philly. Kris Stevens goes PT. Details in today’s email.
- CountryAircheck: Changes At WDSY/Pittsburgh; KKWF/Seattle Gig Alert; Blue Steel Hires Promo Staff; Help Haiti with Compassion; and more in today’s email.
- CountryAircheck: CC WGAR/Cleveland PD Chris Miller exits. Details in this afternoon’s Country Aircheck Today. Sign up: http://tiny.cc/zksfv
- CountryAircheck: Promo vet Bill Heltemes to join Golden as Midwest rep Jan. 25. Details in today’s email. Sign up: http://tiny.cc/zksfv
- radio411: The trouble with lefty radio http://ow.ly/1562S
- radio411: Nikki Sixx brings radio into his entertainment mix http://ow.ly/155PD
- radio411: Howard Stern Confirms ‘Idol’ Talks http://ow.ly/155mi
- radio411: What makes a ‘genuine’ black man? http://ow.ly/14Skl
- radio411: Local radio personalities sound off on The Who http://ow.ly/14Sah
- radio411: TOP 5 MOVIES: 1 Dear John $32.4M, 2 Avatar $23.6M, 3 From Paris With Love $8.1M, 4 Edge of Darkness $7M, 5 Tooth Fairy $6.5M
- radio411: Media Continues Its Assault on Sirius XM and Howard Stern http://ow.ly/14CHM
- radio411: For Super Bowl radio row, it’s all-excess http://ow.ly/14vyB
- radio411: Radio job over after ex-player is arrested http://ow.ly/14vod
- radio411: ESPN ends Michael Irvin’s radio show; Irvin countersues female accuser http://ow.ly/14uZH
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- Dr. Johnnie Fever on “Broadcast Audio Series IV On Air Board”
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- Dr. Johnnie Fever on “Various Electronics for sale”
- Joseph_Gallant on “More Live Awards Shows On The West Coast??”
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- mediumwave_dx on “Classic Countdown on WCBS-FM…The Beatles 1962-1970″
- RLTRRJ on “AT 40″
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