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It’s Time For Radio To Punch Above Its Weight, Say It Isn’t So Chuck!
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Radio Headlines For Tuesday 12-6-2017
 
It was perfect timing. On Monday, Entercom CEO David Field launched a pro-marketing campaign in several publications read by big advertisers, hoping to start the conversation that leads to more money flowing to radio. Today, BIA Kelsey released its local advertising projections for 2018 and, despite a whopping 5.2% increase in local advertising spend, from $140.9 billion in 2017 to $151.2 billion in 2018, they are predicting a decline for radio. [read more]
 
 
(By Wayne Ens) I was impressed on three fronts as I read the Radio Ink story about David Field “putting his money where his mouth is.” First, while other broadcasters are looking at ways to cut their way to success, Mr. Field has faith in radio, and is investing in its success not just to benefit his company, but all of radio. Secondly, he believes in advertising. [read more]
 
Every once in awhile a press release floats into your inbox that, after seeing the headline, you say to yourself, "Well...that's a bummer." And that's exactly what happened Tuesday when a press release headlined: "Chuck DuCoty Announced His Retirement" arrived. [read more]
 
Perhaps that will change once radio is fully integrated into Home Speakers such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home. For now, Nielsen says more than two-thirds of AM/FM listening is done away from the home, when consumers are in their cars or shopping. [read more]
 
 
Beginning in 2018, RadioInk.com will be publishing weekly advertiser success stories. Advertisers that use radio to drive customers to their stores and dollars to their cash registers. We need your help. Here are all the details... [read more]
 
Russia’s lower house of parliament has banned Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The Russian government declared the organizations “foreign agents.” It's retaliation for what the U.S. did to the English-language Russian network RT. [read more]
 
Radio Ink is now accepting nominations for The Best Country Program Directors in America. In 2018, Radio Ink's Best Country PDs will be honored at a special music event during the Country Radio Seminar on Monday night, February 5, in Nashville, in the Performance Hall of the Omni Hotel. The awards will be presented between amazing performances at this new exciting music event that follows the opening night welcome reception. Make your nomination HERE. [read more]
 
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This is Radio Ink subscriber Ernie Sprance at the helm of Bill O'Shaugnessy's WVOX-AM in New Rochelle, NY, where he worked from 1977 to 1984, becoming the Vice President and Operations Manager in 1979. Send your Blast From The past to edryantheeditor@gmail.com and we will consider it for our New Picture Of The Day feature. [read more]
 
Washington, DC, News/Talk station 105.9FM and AM630 WMAL raised the cash bonanza for Fisher House Foundation. WMAL’s two-day live broadcast on Friday and Saturday, December 1-2, was anchored by station personalities Chris Plante, Larry O’Connor, Mary Walter, and Vince Coglianese. [read more]
 
Cape Cod Broadcasting Media, which owns and operates WQRC, 99.9 The Q, WOCN, Ocean 104.7, WKPE, Cape Country 104, WFCC, Cape Classical 107.5, and CapeCod.com, won awards for Spot News Coverage, Individual Commercial Production, and Local Program or Special Event from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association. [read more]
 
 
 
The Beasley Tampa FM’s Freak Show Personality and Program Director will host the station’s 6th Annual Toy Drive Tower event to benefit the Children’s Home Network in Tampa. Beginning Friday, December 8, at 5 p.m. through Saturday, December 16, at 5 p.m., Davis will perch atop the Toy Drive Tower, an outdoor constructed platform 30 feet in the air. [read more]
 
The Charlotte New Country station will host the second annual St. Jude Radiothon on December 7 and 8, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, to help raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The radiothon will be held at iHeartMedia Charlotte, 801 Wood Ridge Center Drive Charlotte, NC. [read more]
 
Envision and The Jim Brickman Show present the special A Joyful Christmas. Available now via download to radio, the free 24-hours of holiday content features celebrity interviews, the hottest gifts for this holiday season, and easy ways to enjoy family time together. [read more]
 
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SiriusXM is launching a new daily weeknight show and additional weekend shows, all airing on SiriusXM Patriot channel 125. Former White House Chief Strategist and Breitbart News Network Executive Chairman Steve Bannon will return as a regular host along with Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on the conservative channel beginning December 5. [read more]
 
The podcast is called Endless Thread, and will be hosted by Ben Brock Johnson. Johnson and producer Amory Sivertson will guide listeners through the best stories from “the front page of the Internet” and bring them to life in audio form. Each episode will have a thematic approach. [read more]
 
Are you hearing things about your market? Let us investigate. Radio Ink Magazine is the only 25-year-old trade magazine in the radio industry. That's the result of a lot of trust over those years. Send all news tips in total confidence, and any other station news to Radio Ink Editor Ed Ryan at edryantheeditor@gmail.com [read more]
 
Thank you to John Rosso, President, Market Development, Triton Digital for dusting off this classic and sending it along to us. This is Rosso at SUNY Buffalo’s WBNY-FM rocking the Ian Hunter perm. He tells Radio Ink: "I am now over any self-esteem issues related to that hair style." Send your classic studio shot -- cart machines and all -- to edryantheeditor@gmail.com. [read more]
 
For what seems like years now Entercom CEO David Field has said radio is undervalued. He's never bought into the radio naysayers who say that flat revenue is the new up. He's consistently stated that radio is the most undervalued and least disrupted media. And he has always said you can reach more people, get better results for far less money, using radio, and "we should act like it." David Field is doing more than just talking the talk. [read more]
 
 
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