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| Minnesota Station Employees Lucky To Get Out Alive., SiriusXM Host Talks About Vegas |
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| Radio Headlines For Tuesday 10-3-17 |
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 Beasley Media's Mike West is the morning show host at 102.7 The Coyote in Las Vegas. Mike and about a half dozen other Beasley employees were at the Route 91 Harvest Festival Sunday night when the shooting took place. Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan interviewed Mike about what he saw -- LISTEN HERE. [read more] |
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 Thief River Radio GM Jake Weber, Cassie Manzanares and DJ Tischner had been reporting from the Route 91 Harvest Festival and interviewing bands in the media tent when the shooting began. [read more] |
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 Cumulus' NASH morning show hosts Ty, Kelly & Chuck interviewed SiriusXM Country Music Channel host Buzz Brainard in their program Monday morning. Brainard was attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert with his 19-year-old son. Listen to that interview HERE. [read more] |
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 Here's an interview from Cumulus' WIVK/Knoxville where The Tony & Kris Show spoke to Jake Owen's manager who was at the Las Vegas country concert where the shooting took place. LISTEN HERE. [read more] |
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 Everybody is trying to do anything they can to help the victims of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, from donating to a GoFundMe account to giving blood. No doubt radio stations across the country will start their own fundraisers and events to help. That's what radio does. Here's a list of how others in the radio industry plan to cover this still unfolding news story... [read more] |
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 The CW Network is delaying its planned two-night broadcast of the iHeartRadio Music Festival following the Las Vegas shooting. The event was held Sept. 22 and 23 in Las Vegas and was set to be broadcast this Wednesday and Thursday as part of the CW's fall launch. [read more] |
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 A GoFundMe page that will provide relief and financial support to the victims and families has been set up by Las Vegas authorities. The current goal is set at $1,000,000. Beasley Media's Community of Caring Initiative will donate $5,000 dollars to the fund, and the company is encouraging listeners to donate as well. Beasley owns six radio stations in Las Vegas. [read more] |
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 Neuhoff Communications President and CEO Beth Neuhoff wants to make sure, after the recent publicity, the push to turn on the FM Chip in all cell phones doesn't fade away as the two recent Hurricanes become ancient history. [read more] |
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 Ajit Pai was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve his second 5-year term. The term is retroactive to include the last year and runs through June 2021. The final vote to confirm the 44-year-old Pai was 52 to 41. The FCC Chairman released the following statement after being confirmed... [read more] |
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 On December 18, Radio Ink will release its 6th annual Top Local Sports Talkers in America for 2017. It's been an exciting year in the sports talk format. Mike Francesa has held the #1 spot for all five years this list has been published. Who will be top dog this year? Can anyone knock Mike Francesa out of the top spot? We'll find out in December when Radio Ink's Top Local Sports Talkers in America list is revealed. Make your nomination HERE. [read more] |
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 Media Monitors is reporting that both ABC and NBC made the top five of their weekly chart of radio advertisers. ABC was second airing 37,679 commercials on radio stations all across the country while NBC was fifth airing 30,927 spots. [read more] |
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 Cox Media Group has named Rob Babin, currently CMG Miami Radio’s VP/General Manager, as their Regional VP for Radio, reporting to Executive VP Bill Hendrich. Babin will oversee CMG’s Houston, Long Island, San Antonio, and Tampa radio markets, in addition to Miami. [read more] |
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 Two of talk radio's longest-running and most successful hosts got together last week when Rush Limbaugh appeared on Fox News for a two-part interview with Sean Hannity. Premiere says Rush helped Hannity draw impressive ratings for his show and even mentioned the ratings bump he caused for Hannity on his show Monday afternoon. Both hosts are syndicated by Premiere. [read more] |
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 Robby Bridges has signed a contract extension as Director of FM Programming, of Cumulus’ Detroit cluster, which includes Hot AC WDVD, Country WDRQ, and Classic Country WDRQ-HD2. Bridges is also on Cumulus’ Hot AC and Country format SWAT teams, and anchors PM drive on WDVD. [read more] |
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 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has appointed Eric Burger to serve as the agency’s Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Burger will advise Pai and the agency on technology and engineering issues, together with the Office of Engineering and Technology. [read more] |
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 The changes are at Louisville Public Media, which operates 89.3 WFPL News Louisville, the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Ohio Valley ReSource. Erica Peterson, WFPL’s environment reporter since 2011, has been promoted to assignment editor. Two other changes have also been announced. [read more] |
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 At Forecast 2018, Jay Abraham will present some of his winning strategies for finding new ways to market radio, maximize its growth, and find new ways to generate revenue. He’ll explain patterns he has identified over the years that limit and restrict business growth, and how most industries only know and use one particular marketing approach. [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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