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Radio News for Thursday November 20th 2008
Headlines:
- Ex-WRKO host pleads not guilty in kid rape – boston herald
- Cumulus sends Louisville sports-talk to AM station - louisville.bizjournals.com
- Clear Channel spent nearly $1.1M lobbying in 3Q – forbes.com
- Sources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs – cnet
- Braking: Auto Marketers Drop 10% In Ad Spend – mediapost.com
- Arbitron To Pay Dividend, Stock Slips 24% – radio ink
- Jacobs Media Announces “Killer iPhone App” For Radio – fmqb.com
Radio News US:
Business & Financial
- Time Warner CEO: Global Crisis Opens Door To Real Change – wall street journal
- Braking: Auto Marketers Drop 10% In Ad Spend – mediapost.com
- Media In Recession: Broadcast Stumbles, Cable Capitalizes On Interactive Platforms – mediapost.com
- Arbitron Fades. Audience-measuring firm’s shares tank after clients defect to rival Nielsen. – forbes.com
- No Bottom In Sight: New Lows at Sirius, Live Nation… – digitalmusicnews.com
- Sirius XM at 17 cents – look out below The satellite radio company has to deal with Detroit’s woes, a tapped out consumer and its own debt. So even at 20 cents a share, the stock’s not a buy. – money.cnn.com
Programming, Changes & Ratings
- Another radio station shakes up staff Emmis promotes its sales director to general manager of its New York cluster. – crains ny
- Cox Radio Hawaii trims staff, restructures sales teams – pacific business journal
- Cumulus sends sports-talk to AM station Business First of Louisville. Cumulus Media Inc. Tuesday informed employees and listeners of WQKC-FM 93.9, that it would shift its sports-talk format to sister station WAVG-AM 1450. - louisville.bizjournals.com
- Company Confirms Layoffs Include Radio Personalities Midwest Family Broadcasting Owns 7 Madison Stations – channel3000.com
- Company Confirms Layoffs Include Radio Personalities Midwest Family Broadcasting Owns 7 Madison Stations (WTDY) – .channel3000.com
- Mid-West Family Broadcasting confirms layoffs – madison.com
- Arbitron to ‘Protect’ Measurement Business – mediaweek.com
- Nielsen Cancels National Client Meeting, Cites Economy – mediapost.com
- WTOP Launches Custom Commute Traffic Cameras – radio ink
- Chris Satullo: WHYY hires Satullo as news executive – philly.com
- Cumulus sends sports-talk to AM station. Cumulus Media Inc. Tuesday informed employees and listeners of WQKC-FM 93.9, that it would shift its sports-talk format to sister station WAVG-AM 1450. – business first
- 106.1 FM will shift to all-Spanish. Another Spanish station is heading to the powerful FM dial in Charlotte, the third to go on the air since 2006. – charlotteobserver.com
- Farah fills in for G. Gordon Liddy Plays host role on syndicated program for 3 days – worldnetdaily.com
- Urban Affairs Host Robert Mark Joins CRN Lineup – radio ink
- Christmas Radio Format Strategies – insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com
- Radio hosts say they were fired for on-air comments. Two well-known local talk radio hosts say they were fired Wednesday in the wake of comments made against a Palm Springs council member. – mydesert.com
- Palm Springs Radio hosts fired over Foat remarks – mydesert.com
- Trinity on WGTK Now that sports talk radio station WQKC-FM 93.9 The Ticket and its sister station, WAVG-AM 1450, are scrapping their current programming, Trinity High School football games will be broadcast on WGTK-AM 970, beginning tomorrow. – courierjournal.com
- On Radio: Do you hear what I hear? It’s already Christmas on the air – seattle pi
- KVI-AM/570 will be adding Dennis Miller’s nationally syndicated talk show in early February in the 9 a.m.-noon slot, replacing Dr. Laura Schlessinger. – seattle pi
- It’s beginning to sound like Christmas a lot earlier. Round-the-clock Christmas programming is a tradition at KESZ-FM (99.9). Each year, program director Kevin Gossett has been inching up the start date. – azcentral.com
News & PR
- Ex-WRKO host pleads not guilty in kid rape – boston herald
- Ex-Radio Host Pleads Not Guilty To Child Rape Reese Hopkins Arraigned In New York – thebostonchannel.com
- Clear Channel spent nearly $1.1M lobbying in 3Q – forbes.com
- Clear Channel still pushing for bigger local cap – rbr.com
- COFFEE WITH … J.B. & SANDY Morning radio duo are ‘always looking for the funny angle’ – austin360.com
- Metal fans getting Trunk show on TV. The host of “Friday Night Rocks” at 11 p.m. on WAXQ (104.3 FM) and a hard rock show on Sirius XM’s “Boneyard,” Trunk is now also hosting a new program called “That Metal Show” at 11 p.m. Saturdays on VH1 Classic. – ny daily news
- Residents launch balloons to protest radio towers Five towers would be built on a 73-acre plot owned by Salem Radio Properties to broadcast for KRLA AM 870 – pasadenastarnews.com
- Improved Radio Advertising May be a Game-Changer for Advertisers – pr.com
- William Bennett To Keynote Radio Ink’s Forecast ’09 – yahoo.com
- Q&A with Amy Goodman – theithacajournal.com
- Sirius XM Satellite Radio programming begins to cross-pollinate – jsonline.com
- Sirius, XM listeners hear shakeup after merger – detroit news
- Satellite radio risks collapse, censorship following merger of XM, Sirius – collegian.psu.edu
- XM-Sirius: Land Mines Aplenty While regulators dithered over whether to approve the deal, competition accelerated and the economy slumped – businessweek.com
- Sirius XM dogged by Big Three’s troubles – thedeal.com
- Hatch: AC/DC in Peoria? DJ out to make it happen – pjstar.com
- DJ diary Valley radio legend Dave Pratt’s new autobiography has charitable spin – azcentral.com
- Music: “Cities 97 Sampler 20th Anniversary” on sale today – startribune.com
- Radio’s Kitty Kinnin Returns To The Triangle Airwaves—And Her Longtime Fans Are Thrilled – raleigh.mync.com
- A Former Anchor, Dan Abrams, to Form a Consulting Firm – ny times
- Ticketmaster To Power Billboard.com Ticket Sales – billboard.biz
- Skokie radio now broadcasting – pioneerlocal.com
- Radio stations collecting food Today through Saturday, Mark Bolger of radio station Star 93.3 WBWZ-FM, will broadcast in front of the Super Stop & Shop on Route 9 in Poughkeepsie in the annual challenge to stuff several school buses with nonperishable food items. – poughkeepsiejournal.com
- Dining winner connects with Channel 95.5′s Mojo Sarah Mikhael of Troy and Mojo of Mojo in the Morning have a lot in common. Both are the children of immigrants who came to the United States looking for a better life. Both call their parents heroes. – hometownlife.com
- Q and A: Local comedian Bob Zany offers insight into making people laugh (bob & tom show) – sanluisobispo.com
- CRN Expands Original Programming Slate with Urban Affairs Talk Radio Show: “The Robert Mark Show” Airs Saturdays – emediawire.com
- Radio history displayed at Marconi center – marinij.com
- The future of the music business – popmatters.com
- WDBX seeks city help for generator – southernillinoisan.com
- Radio station seeks potato chip donations – herald-dispatch.com
- Mills is the new radio voice for Falcons hockey – bgnews.com
OP/ED, Political & Feature
- Satellite Radio Is Dead – itmanagement.earthweb.com
- Eastlan: Nielsen Ratings Will Mean More Radio Jobs Lost – fmqb.com
- Obama’s New ‘Fairness Doctrine’ – humanevents.com
- When ‘fairness’ means ‘censorship’ – worldnetdaily.com
- Your Right-Hand Man: The fascism doctrine – luther.edu
- Rush Limbaugh is right: Fairness Doctrine stinks – voices.kansascity.com
- Bracing for a battle over their free speech rights under the First Amendment The Emerging Threat to Conservative Talk Radio – canadafreepress.com
- Savage: “[T]here’s gonna be a wholesale firing of competent white men in the United States government” – mediamatters.org
- Try Doing Talk Radio, Senator Hagel – rushlimbaugh.com
- We lost California but gained Jay Severin. Boston’s bad boy of talk radio, Jay Severin (96.9 FM WTKK) has had a change of heart about what he used to call “homosexual marriage”. – baywindows.com
- 92Q promotes Baltimore drug culture – examiner.com
- MEDIAOLOGY: TV newscasts bribing viewers to boost ratings. (KSNE-FM 106.5) – lvrj.com
FCC & Legal
- Levin, Genachowski To Develop Tech Policy For Obama Announcement follows FCC agency review team formed last week. – broadcastingandcable.com
- Freeing Airways: Santa Cruz’s pirate radio station continues fight against FCC – .cityonahillpress.com
- FCC Daily Digest – FCC
Public, Educational & Religious
- Charlene Li and BoomTown Talk Yahoo on KQED’s “Forum” Radio Show – kara.allthingsd.com
- NPR’s legal analyst speaks about Obama effect on court – masslive.com
- Terry Gross Interviews Bill Ayers – dartblog.com
- KSMU frequency changing for some – news-leader.com
- Santa Maria’s KGDP station will change next yearClassical music lovers on the Central Coast will get a new station to listen to next year – sanluisobispo.com
- Public Diplomacy Experts Urge Obama to Stop the Broadcasting Board of Governors from Silencing the Voice of America – bloggernews.net
- Rowan radio wins five awards. The staff at Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM brought home five awards at the Philadelphia College AIR (Achievement in Radio) Awards presented by the March of Dimes. – nj.com
Streaming & Tech
- U of Tennessee blocked P2P sites before RIAA law – cnet
- Sources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs – cnet
- MacBook buyers bite Apple over copy protection cock-up – reghardware.co.uk
- Jacobs Media Announces “Killer iPhone App” For Radio – fmqb.com
- Advertisers seek “unified” web radio. – inside radio
- Cuban says he never agreed to confidentiality, denies charge – rain
- Main BBC channels to be broadcast live via web – theregister.co.uk
Radio News International:
Britain/Europe
- BBC fires presenter for turban remarks Sam Mason, who hosted an afternoon show on BBC Radio Bristol, called a taxi for her 14-year-old daughter – while off-air – asking them not to send an Asian driver because “a guy with a turban might freak her out”. – .guardian.co.uk
- News International delays redevelopment of Wapping site – guardian.co.uk
- Radio caller reveals cannibal habits. A radio presenter was stunned when he answered a call from a listener who admitted she was once an unwitting cannibal. – independent.co.uk
- Goodbody takes to the airwaves. BRAY historian Rob Goodbody is the principal contributor to a new documentary to air in Dublin South FM Community Radio. – braypeople.ie
- Local radio rules the airwaves. INDEPENDENT radio stations Live 95FM and Spin South West continue to dominate the radio market in Limerick, according to the latest radio listenership figures, which have just been published. – limerickleader.ie
- Radio stations to combine resources. Radio stations Newstalk and Today FM are to introduce cooperation between their two news services. - rte.ie
Canada
- Behind the Mic: Edoardo Monasterolo at CHIN – blogto.com
Asia/Africa/Oceana
- Radio DJ changes stations. Well-known Rotorua radio personality Mike Baird is on the move – just down the Mediaworks’ corridor to the studios of More FM. – dailypost.co.nz
- Raja debunks reports of differences with FM on spectrum – tmcnet.com
- SABC reinstates radio staff who beat up women – sowetan.co.za
- TV and radio audiences drop. Both radio and TV registered a drop in audiences during the October 2007-September 2008 broadcasting season, according to the Broadcasting Authority - di-ve.com
- Chinese Govt. dedicates LBS expansion project – liberiabroadcastingsystem.com
- Liberia: Broadcasting System Goes Nation-Wide, As China Rehabilitates Facilities – allafrica.com
- Somali Region Lets Radio Station Resume Operations – Watchdog – nasdaq.com
- Malawi’s Joy FM radio closed – nyasatimes.com
- BIG 92.7 FM Kolkata Boasts Highest Share in RAM – medianewsline.com
Trades
- Two Analysts Downgrade Arbitron.
- Jacobs Media Introduces iPhone Radio App
- Stevens’ Reign Comes To End
- FCC’s Adelstein Calls For Investigation Into PPM
- L.A. Mayor, Calle 13 Appear At Premios De La Radio
- Stock Market Snapshot: Nov. 19, 2008
- PD Ramirez Laid Off At KKWD
- Ford-Owned Volvo To Make HD Radio Standard In Most 2009 Models
- Ellcessor Named WDET GM
- Arbitron Announces 10-Cent Quarterly Dividend
- Arbitron’s Houston Calling Center ‘Rendered Useless’ By Hurricane Ike
- Cumulus, CC Move To Nielsen Will Cost ARB $10M
- McCain Named EMI Label Services VP
- Ginsburg Leaves Lotus/Fresno
- Westwood One Suspended From Trading On NYSE
- It’s Knight On The Beach In Corpus Christi
- ‘Fearless?’… How ‘Bout Peerless?
- Updated: Budget Cuts Two From KZON
- Ticket Punched In Louisville
- Weiner To Share CBS/L.A. Duties With Laughlin
- Big Three Automakers Curtail Advertising Dollars
- Arbitron Shuts Down Houston Calling Center
- Nielsen Cancels National Client Meeting
- Microsoft Has A New Zune Plan
- MySpace Music Will Debut GN’R Album
- New Fray CD Makes Unique Delivery
- KRLA Tower Plan Draws Community Opposition
- Ex-WRKO Host Hopkins Pleads Not Guilty
- Michael Jackson Agrees To Court Appearance
- Report: KVI Picks Up Miller
- SSI’s Greenberg Releases New Book
- Layoffs Hit WTDY/Madison
- Marshall And Stone Exit K-News/Palm Springs
- TalkSport Fires Host Over BNP Membership
- Arbitron To Pay Dividend, Stock Slips 24%
- Radio Gets iPhone App
- HD Radio Standard In 2009 Volvos
- WTOP Launches Custom Commute Traffic Cameras
- Urban Affairs Host Robert Mark Joins CRN Lineup
- Arbitron Downgraded To ‘Neutral’
- Arbitron Not Giving Up In Nielsen Markets
- FCC’s Adelstein Asks For PPM Probe
- Eastlan: Nielsen Ratings Will Mean More Radio Jobs Lost
- Jacobs Media Announces “Killer iPhone App” For Radio
- Westwood One delisted from the NYSE
- Sid McCain appointed VP of Label Services for EMI Music North America
- HD Radio becomes standard on 2009 Volvos
- Arbitron vows to fight Nielsen
- Sirius XM stock can go to zero
- Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
- Is Nickelback’s Dark Horse worth $4?
- Topspin calls Byrne/Eno album model a success
- Advertisers seek “unified” web radio.
- Nielsen to double-up some markets.
- Cox Radio cuts in Hawaii.
- Network radio misses auto cuts.
- Houston call center is closed for good.
- WTOP’s traffic gets personal.
- iPhone gets new radio app.
- Volvo makes HD Radio standard.
- Wall Street dumps Arbitron’s stock
- Clear Channel still pushing for bigger local cap
- Nielsen radio ratings service begins test next month
- Arbitron vows to fight Nielsen head-to-head
- Nielsen jumps into radio measurement
- Huckabee considering 2012 run for president
- HD Radio wins iLounge’s Next Generation Poll
- Jacobs Media debuts “Killer iPhone App”
- Radiocadena Univision launches “Directo al Blanco”
- The Dan Patrick Show takes one Dan Nation winner to paradise
- Automaker makes HD standard equipment
- Arbitron vs. Nielsen on recruiting
- HD Radio Becomes Standard Equipment for 2009 Volvos
- Jacobs Media Announces ”Killer iPhone App” For Radio
- Mike Ginsburg Exits Lotus/Fresno as General Manager
- Clear Channel Spends $1.1 Million in Q3 Lobbying Efforts
- Arbitron Board Announces 10 Cent Quarterly Dividend
- Nashville to Host 21st Annual Morning Show Boot Camp
- WEEI Parttime Sports Anchor Charged in DUI Death
- KKWD-FM (WiLD 104.9) in Oklahoma City PD/afternoon personality Ronnie Ramirez is out in a downsizing move.
- Talk WTDY-AM and Country WWQM-FM (Q106) anchor Pam Jahnke has been elected President of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters.
- Jackie Morales exits middays at Rhythmic CHR KZON-FM (101.5 Jamz)/Phoenix
- Lawmaker, Journalist Rip Rush
- Longtime Don Imus sidekick and news anchor Charles McCord new duties
- Women Inside The Campaign Trail
- AP Restructures Regional Coverage
- ESPN Gets BCS
- WTOP Debuts Custom Commute
- Nielsen Returns To Radio Ratings
- A Step Back To The 1960s
- Arbitron – Charlotte, Orlando and Miami
- News – Common & E-93 Savannah
- Arbitron – Buffalo and Tampa
- Detroit’s Big Three Automakers Slash Ad Money
- Will Reba Be Back On Broadway?
- Denean Workman Prepares For The Christmas Season
- Six Markets Gets Fall Phase I Trends Today
- Two Rawlco Stations Add SK, Big River Transmitters
- Arbitron Gets Downgraded, Pays Dividend as Stock Slides 24%
- iPhone Now Has Radio App
- Toby Keith Is All Over Holiday Cable TV
- Dow Drops Its Drawers Due To Auto Makers’ Troubles
- Rascal Flatts Holiday Radio Special Now Available
- Taylor Swift Sits Down With Blair Garner
- Broadcast Stocks Aren’t Alone In Stock Market Tumble
- Sally Williams Becomes Ryman GM
- Toby Keith Visits WXTU/Philadelphia
- Taylor Swift’s Fearless Goes Gold First Week Out
- Senator Hank Williams, Jr?
- Clint Black Sues Manager Over Equity Music Group
- Wall Street Journal: Why Country Music Survived & Thrived
- Stephen Dale Gets Country Weekly Feature
- Pam Tillis Visits Wounded Veterans At Walter Reed Today
- FCC Commissioner Wants To Investigate PPM
